Achieving diversity in education will require fundamental changes to the current system, says TDA's Bruce Mackenzie The current higher education institution classification system and the funding arrangements supporting it limit development and are socially detrimental, Bruce MacKenzie, chair of TAFE ...

The higher education sector might not be too happy with the TEQSA legislation, but TAFE bodies want it used as a template for the national VET regulator. By John Ross. A national VET regulator (NVR) created under the federal government’s ...

TAFEs could end up as the big winners from the federal government’s structural adjustment fund, even though they can’t apply in their own right – but they could also end up victims. Applications to the structural adjustment fund (SAF) suggest ...

Move aside Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. Here comes Canberra, the Learning Capital of the world. By John Ross. The ACT would trump Victoria’s training guarantee by promising places for all its school students in the territory’s newly integrated tertiary education ...

Resistance to TAFE students coming into university courses often comes from staff not from the university hierarchies. By Annette Blackwell. There is a growing awareness among students of articulation and credit transfer opportunities between the vocational education and training sector ...

The Senate has put the brakes on the legislation to establish the national VET regulator – and COAG has thrown an extra spanner in the works. By John Ross. The launch of the national VET regulator has been delayed by ...

Australia’s national VET research centre is increasingly delving into the higher education world, as the integrated tertiary sector takes shape. Australia’s key VET research centre is broadening its role to embrace higher education, in a de facto response to the ...

There is no quick fix to the skills shortage, says John Mitchell. The recent floods in Queensland have led to headlines around Australia that rebuilding the damaged sections of the state will be slowed down by the lack of skilled ...

A single pathway cannot meet the needs of students who want post-secondary education writes Stuart Middleton I opened my Sunday paper the day before the start of the new school year to read the exciting statement in an advertisement for ...

What justifies educational technology asks John Mitchell. The major flexible learning program in Australian VET, the Australian Flexible Learning Program, is being evaluated externally. Perhaps this is the ideal time to develop a new rationale for the use of technology ...