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A culture of continuous improvement is least effective in the most needy, writes Anita Roberts. Who wants to talk about continuous improvement? Within VET, and probably elsewhere, it is difficult to use the term without accompanying grimaces and eye-rolling. It ...

Bradley appointed as independent director of Seek Online job advertising company Seek has appointed former University of South Australia vice-chancellor Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley as an independent director. Bradley, who chaired the national review of higher education in 2008, is ...

Universities are constantly reassessing their computing needs, writes Beverley Head. Curtin University is beta testing a computing solution that will eventually allow the university to decide which of its 180 computing applications it will migrate to a cloud-based service. Instead ...

Greens education spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young has waded back into the Youth Allowance debate with a three-point plan to break the parliamentary impasse and get scholarships flowing. She’s already made a start on point one, introducing a private member’s bill that ...

The key university infrastructure fund might have $6 billion on the balance sheets, but less than half is still in the kitty. Despite warnings that the looming infrastructure and maintenance needs of each university could reach $1 billion, the federal ...

Government spending on universities and schools barely kept pace with inflation in the latter years of the Howard government. But spending on public VET went backwards. Universities might have cried poor during the Howard years. But they did a hell ...

A hospitality provider comes through its AUQA audit with flying colours. The Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS) and its sister campus the Australian International Hotel School (AIHS) are the two parts of a small, elite, internationally recognised provider ...

In-demand occupations could lose their special treatment status under possible changes to the skilled migration points test. Would-be migrants from the most in-demand occupational groups could find that their skills no longer give them an extra edge under changes being ...

A large donation will see Bond University become Australia’s 19th university to offer an architectural degree. A significant donation to Bond University will fund the establishment of a new faculty of architecture. The Soheil Abedian School of Architecture will open ...

Loan fees have been canned for Australians studying overseas – but cost hikes are planned for fee-paying domestic undergraduates. Fee-paying domestic undergraduates in private institutions could find themselves paying more from July, after another Higher Education Amendment Bill was introduced ...