Pro-vice chancellor for global reach and pedagogical integrity, Professor Mal Sway, stares ruefully out of his office window as the dean of engineering, Professor Les Spanner, enters the room to talk about student enrolments. Professor Sway: Did you hear what ...

Skills Australia CEO Robin Shreeve wonders why the VET sector with thousands of providers  has not followed the school approach of having external Boards of Studies award qualifications.  One part of the Prime Minister’s recent skills statement was unexpected. That ...

 Universities need to start teaching academics and teachers to be residents of the web if we are to have any hope of bridging the technological divide.   Our culture is changing every day. Look around and you will see a world ...

While international education revenue in Australia took a $3.3 billion dive last year spare a thought for South Australia, which has taken a $127 million haircut in a small market as VET international student enrolments crash. Last year, SA’s international education ...

The real picture of an institution’s success can be disguised by inaccurate descriptions of course completion figures. One of the greater consumer scandals of the recent past in New Zealand were the revelations that the importers of second-hand motor vehicles were ...

 The statistics speak for themselves, private providers in Victoria are successfully expanding access to vocational education and training and now handle 40 per cent of subsidised students.  In 2008, the Victorian government initiated what it termed “skills reform” in the ...

High rates of attrition in some bachelor degree programs at a Victorian TAFE are not as unusual as they might seem, says the institute’s chief, but could be reduced if students had access to Commonwealth funding. Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, ...

A federal government threat to redirect the $9 billion for national skills development away from state and territory coffers has not caused a rush to sign up for the revised agreement. The states and territories are still poring over the ...

Victoria’s Higher Education and Skills Minister Peter Hall has accused a union of making misleading claims about job losses at TAFEs during a series of rallies at rural and regional institutions. Hall said the Australian Education Union (AEU) statement that ...

A ministerial speech on the Gillard government plan for major skills reform lacks the detail the VET sector is seeking, say TAFE Directors Australia (TDA). TDA chief executive Martin Riordan told Campus Review the speech by Tertiary Education and Skills ...