"It is becoming clear that an Abbott government would push more costs onto students and they should come clean about how high they would increase fees.” Greens senator and higher education spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon commenting on the Coalition’s plan to ...

Australian institutions need to use a variety of inquiry methods to compete with other nations.   For the past year it has been possible to mark time by looking at headlines proclaiming the demise of the international student sector. It ...

Mid-level qualifications have suffered in the push for more bachelor graduates but there is still a strong demand. Associate degrees may be able to play an increasing role as a qualification that can provide strong links to work but also ...

The bright young Florentine might be tempted to do a product design engineering degree, followed by a digital media design course. Just over five centuries ago, a young man wrote a job application to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. ...

The BCA believes the Victorian reform was poorly planned and the recent budget cuts too savage. The objectives of the reform were fundamentally to increase participation in the system and to harness the forces of competition to drive a more ...

Equipping young people with mid-level qualifications is better than having a large number of unemployed university graduates. There is currently renewed interest throughout the Anglophone education systems in the quality of careers advice, information, guidance and education. This is largely ...

  “It’s complete nonsense that universities are doing it hard…They’ve had their funding increased by 50 per cent since 2007.” Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans told The Australian that university vice-chancellors were promoting increases in student fees to pre-empt a ...

The great, open online university with students sitting in front of computers all day does not seem to be as successful as some people predicted. Almost overnight there appears to be the whiff of cultural revolt in the air. It’s ...

The Grattan Institute report that suggests we should consider pay-your-own-way degrees might work if we were all financially secure, but we aren’t. I’ve copped a little bit of stick over comments I made last week regarding the Grattan Institute’s report ...

By focusing on the business of vocational education and training, rather than good training, we are devaluing a once strong system. The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained ...