The ELICOS sector has been hit by the latest big college collapse, the Australian branch of a multinational giant, after its bosses took a commercial decision to shut up shop. The late January collapse of yet another private college chain ...

TAFEs have staked their claim to share the emerging tertiary landscape, with a $572 million pre-budget submission. Hot on the heels of Universities Australia’s bid for an extra $881 million in higher education spending, Australia’s TAFEs have staked their claim ...

TAFE NSW campuses close this Thursday – just three days after they opened after the summer break. TAFE NSW students face disruption this week – the first week of classes for 2010 – with no end in sight to the ...

Does it matter if VET practitioners don’t keep up with changing technologies, asks John Mitchell The worldwide fanfare that surrounded the launch of Apple’s new iPad makes it difficult for educators to calmly reflect on the possible educational implications of ...

Virtually every piece of university life is micromanaged beyond recognition these days. Joseph Gora advises just to get out of the house. One of my more genuinely learned academic colleagues once said to a gaggle of alleged social scientists – ...

Online intro Tasmania has upgraded its own version of the training guarantee, pledging government-supported places for all retrenched workers. Tasmania has taken a leaf out of the book of its northern neighbour, guaranteeing government-funded VET places for young people and ...

Vocational training may not provide much of a springboard for meeting the new higher education targets, with unmet demand rising in government-supported VET. Unmet demand in the government-funded VET sector rose by over 10 per cent in 2008, as funding ...

Western Australia is backing away from the TAFE brand, with the name discarded by four of its ten institutes. Western Australia is progressively removing the name TAFE from its public training system, as the state’s institutes respond to their training ...

Victorian TAFEs want a stop to new private VET colleges, and more support when they rescue students from failed colleges. Victorian TAFEs have distanced themselves from the troubled private VET sector, calling for a moratorium on new providers and demanding ...

Who needs to pick up the baton regarding the professional development of the VET workforce, asks John Mitchell. The editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 January put the case for school teachers to be positioned at the centre ...