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What can TAFE colleges learn from the business models of private providers, asks John Mitchell. What do you get when you appoint as TAFE institute director someone with only six years experience in TAFE, following previous appointments as marketing manager ...

The innovation agenda appears to have overlooked VET, but it is a potentially powerful research area, says Francesca Beddie. I keep reading that innovation will help us climb out of the economic downturn and onto a path to a more ...

Skills reform could cost Victorian TAFEs more than $50 million over the next three and a half years, primarily because of a quiet move to monthly funding arrangements, according to a confidential email circulated among senior officials in the state’s ...

The federal government’s training commitments under its two recent compacts – the compact with young Australians announced in April, and this month’s compact with retrenched workers – have been quietly absorbed into the government’s pre-existing commitments under the Productivity Places ...

Same work, less pay Universities across the US – notably in financially desperate California – are compelling staff to take unpaid leave to reduce their wages bill. But for many academics, it amounts to a pay cut with no offsetting ...

If Australia is having a problem with dodgy private colleges exploiting immigration rules, then the UK government is being condemned for failing to tackle the problem of bogus colleges, which has allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to come ...

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Poor federal skilled migration policy and inadequate state regulation are at the heart of the crisis in international education, according to the heads of the industry’s professional association and its biggest recruiter. And they say that while Australian education’s international ...

Statistical differences between the courses overseas students apply for and the courses they eventually enrol in illustrate how migration objectives are distorting Australia’s international education industry, according to IDP Education chief executive Anthony Pollock. Pollock said Department of Immigration and ...