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Are TAFE colleges capable of becoming more market-oriented, asks John Mitchell. While there is much public commentary about the negative impact of market reform policies on TAFE colleges, one option for TAFE colleges is to accept the policy shift and ...

While training ministers prepared to consider operational models for national regulation of the VET system, at their meeting in Brisbane last week, their ministerial company was pushing its case for a place in the new arrangements. In a newsletter distributed ...

Government VET funding has failed to keep pace with inflation and student contact hours, and individuals and businesses are picking up an increasing proportion of the bill, according to a 10-year analysis of VET finances by the NSW Teachers Federation. ...

Queensland urged to boost regional TAFE courses The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland has urged the state government to offer a wider range of courses on regional TAFE campuses. CCIQ says many students travel hundreds of kilometres to Brisbane, ...

Victoria’s rapid audits of international education providers have claimed their first scalp with the closure of a private Melbourne management college, the St George Institute of Professionals. The college surrendered its Australian Quality Training Framework registration last week following an ...

Canadian cheaters to get a sub-F grade Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, has introduced a grade worse than F – FD for “failure with academic dishonesty” – to discourage cheaters. Rob Gordon, the university’s director of criminology, says that ...

Buoyed by the government’s six-month deferral of its changes to workforce eligibility criteria for youth allowance, the federal opposition now plans further amendments to the government’s income support reform Bill once it reaches the Senate. Education spokesperson Christopher Pyne said ...

Four Victorian universities are in the early stages of a collaboration aimed at increasing participation among students from a particularly disadvantaged area of Melbourne. Melbourne University, RMIT, La Trobe University and Victoria University have been in discussions for almost a ...

International education providers could be forced to enrol students from multiple countries under reforms being considered by the Review of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act. According to an issues paper released last week by review head Bruce Baird, ...

Inadequate regulation and compliance might be copping much of the blame for the problems in international education. But education and training still suffer from “excessive and duplicative reporting requirements”, according to a new report from the Productivity Commission. The sector ...