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A new advisory group to help protect Indians from violent crime is Victoria’s latest effort to safeguard its international students – and its biggest export earner. The Police-Indian Western Reference Group will help shield Indian visitors and residents, particularly students, ...

Orientation weeks should become orientation fortnights to give them time to cover safety and local familiarisation as well as course-specific issues, according to the Victorian Overseas Student Experience Taskforce. The taskforce, which handed down its final report just before Christmas, ...

The article ‘Davidson calls for a rethink on Training Packages’ (CR, 20.01.09) notes the need for training packages to be flexible enough to facilitate teaching of critical skills. Jim Davidson is quite right and in my 30 years of experience ...

The University of Notre Dame is set to radically expand its Sydney presence, having taken possession of three sites on Broadway - the southern entrance to the Sydney CBD – in the past few months. It’s student cohort will increase ...

A national internship scheme may be the key to retaining and enhancing Australia’s world-class higher education system, says Glenn Withers. Australia has been remarkably innovative in tertiary education, even though we tend to understate our achievements. Yet from HECS to ...

There are many reasons why most of us should be cautious about vouchers. By Professor Stephen Parker. The introduction of vouchers in higher education by a Labor government would have major political risks, may lead to an increase in the ...

02 Feb 09 | Print this story | Send this story to a friend New wiki to share literacy and numeracy insights The National Centre for Vocational Education Research has developed a wiki to generate and share ideas on adult ...

In a world of information overflow and attention hyperactivity, maybe we need to focus on, well, focusing, says Anita Roberts. You must have seen the video clip (there’s one http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4), you are asked to count how many passes the white ...

The government is going full steam ahead with market design for VET. But the cost of failure is high and the consequences won’t necessarily be known for many years, says Leesa Wheelahan. Education Minister Julia Gillard, in a speech in ...

Why cumbersome training packages need radical surgery not band-aids. By John Mitchell. New ideas are often destabilising and uncomfortable, so we humans tend to find ways to pay them lip service, while quietly continuing on with the old ways. Possibly ...