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The federal government’s green training corps claims it will deliver a Year 12-equivalent qualification after just five-hours a week training over 26 weeks.tender document for organisations hoping to gain funding under the program. The government says the green corps will ...

Consultation is a key theme in a 10-point “action agenda” released late last week by a coalition of six peak bodies, in an effort to strengthen international education and “resolve current short-term problems” in the industry. It will guide negotiations ...

It sounds a bit like the former Yugoslavia: one audit, one provider, nine colleges across seven religions (plus one interdenominational), six jurisdictions across two countries, and 13 awards across two sectors. On the evidence of the Australian Universities Quality Agency’s ...

Chubb, CSIRO ride high on best-paid list ANU vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb is the sixth-best-paid Commonwealth public servant, according to a list compiled by crikey.com. with a remuneration package of around $985,000 – miles ahead of the best-paid politician (Kevin ...

Universities once had clear ethical purposes but they’ve lost their moral direction, according to Macquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. “To fulfil our true purpose, universities need to get back on course: we need to re-moralise,” Schwartz announced at his inaugural ...

An academic has warned that universities are being overloaded with disparate tasks by policymakers who view education as a “cure-all” for problems in almost every realm. Ewart Keep, director of the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance at the ...

Year 10 students have a right to know about prerequisites for tertiary courses in 2012, writes Elaine Wenn. In his commentary, Conor King put a view that tertiary admissions centres and Victorian universities are adopting an ostrich stance in response ...

Failing private providers send government’s into a frenzy, but what exactly is their role in the free market, asks Conor King. The question of how best to regulate organisations offering tertiary education to Australian or international students is growing into ...

The need to increase revenues and minimise costs places substantial stress on university managers at all levels, writes Cynthia Hansen. Universities have their critics. Some claim they house the protected and the privileged. However, most people who have studied or ...

A market approach to international education should be broadened, says Peter Kell. Australian branding as a study destination is considerably tarnished over recent months. These incidents are not new, and are not unique to Australia, but there is considerable frustration ...