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What can be done to reinvigorate traditional apprenticeships, asks John Mitchell. With the current downturn in the economy, there is increased public interest in quickly retraining the newly unemployed and a simultaneous reduction in interest in the traditional four-year apprenticeship. ...

Catholic Education to take over two ATCs Catholic Education South Australia has taken over the Australian Technical College-Northern Adelaide, while the ATC in the city’s south is expected to be signed over by the end of the month. The federally ...

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is willing to expand its scope and embrace the whole tertiary sector, as recommended by the Bradley review. And an integrated statistical system incorporating both higher education and VET will be an ...

Grammy-winning producer heads QUT musices at RMIT RMIT University has appointed Professor David Hayward as the new dean of the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning. An economist and sociologist, Hayward comes to RMIT from Swinburne University, where ...

In a study that could be instructive for Australian universities, Israeli academics are torn by conflicting attitudes towards the marketing of their universities and their own roles in that marketing process. h; and to achieve that, we needed to develop ...

University marketers have been alert to social media as a key medium to get the message out. Ads in newspapers haven’t quite disappeared, but YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and, increasingly, Twitter are all now commonly integrated into the marketing mix.tin and ...

Orientation week takes on a different feel in Hong Kong, writes Simon Haines. An annual ritual is taking place on our campus just now, as the new academic year approaches. It’s called orientation camp. You can’t miss it; there are ...

Philosophy is popular – very popular – and then reality hits, writes Jeremy Gilling. Philosophy is sexy. It must be given the 400 or so first-year students who cram into lecture theatres at Macquarie University each year. Such popularity is ...