College closures don’t have to wreck people’s lives. It’s the lock-outs, stranded students and outraged staff who make the headlines. But some college closures are being managed without leaving students high and dry. Alternative placements for the 77 students affected ...

Mature-aged apprentices in Victoria could be paying through the nose to study if the state’s reformed skills system isn’t fixed. Quasi-market arrangements, including caps on the number of training hours that attract student fees, should be scrapped from Victoria’s new ...

Industry figures are asking how long current tuition assurance arrangements can hold up. An accelerating failure rate among international colleges is putting Australia’s struggling tuition assurance arrangements under unprecedented strain, according to new figures revealed to international education peak bodies ...

The real question may not be whether Australia’s tuition assurance mechanisms should be replaced, new college closure figures suggest. It may be whether they can survive in the meantime. The failure rate of international colleges is increasing and Australia’s tuition ...

Queensland’s TAFE downsizing is because of reduced demand in the gun resource state, says the education department boss. Queensland plans to cut 200 TAFE teaching and administrative positions across the state in areas it says have been hit by reduced ...

Victorian-style VET for Australia? Not necessarily in all respects, say the experts. Are the federal budget VET reforms an attempt to impose the Victorian VET model on the rest of the country? And if so, is that a good thing? ...

Which training providers are not afraid of the MySkills website, asks John Mitchell. Following the media profile given to the MySchool website, there was no sense of public surprise when the government announced in the budget that it would allocate ...

What is VET’s role in assisting the resources industry, asks John Mitchell. The federal Opposition has predicted that the proposed new tax on mining profits will be the key issue in the forthcoming election. Nationally, it is important that many ...

Can VET and higher education get on better outside of the academy, asks John Mitchell. Almost every time the subject of collaboration between VET and higher education arises, the conversation gets tangled up in the differences between the two sectors, ...

Talking a walk down memory lane, Robin Ryan says there might be nothing new under the sun, but Australian VET is on the cusp of significant change. Nothing reminds one of advancing age more than being asked to reflect on ...