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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 ...

Quebec looks to entice Australia’s lost Indian students with offers of citizenship. Quebec has played its strong hand in a bid to attract Indian students disaffected by reports of violence and college closures in Australia. Quebec premier Jean Charest, leading ...

The value of a degree over a lifetime might be less than the much-touted $1 million. It’s a commonly held fact in higher education circles that those who complete a bachelor degree will earn $1 million more than their counterparts ...

In an otherwise austere budget, President Barack Obama last week confirmed his commitment to education and research. With the US economy still technically a basket case, US President Barack Obama’s $US3.8 trillion ($4.3 trillion) 2011 budget lays the foundation for ...

Peer review of teaching may be what the government needs if it wants to measure quality of teaching. Peer review of teaching has emerged as a possible measure for teaching quality in the government’s indicator framework for higher education performance ...

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 ...

With its focus restricted to funding, the federal government, via its discussion paper on regional loadings, has missed a timely opportunity to thoroughly examine higher education in rural and regional areas, according to experts in the field. Furthermore, the discussion ...

Targets can be easy if you’ve got momentum on your side. But they can be much harder if you’re fighting the headwinds created by other targets, writes <<<John Ross>>>. Some of the new tertiary education targets are starting to look ...