Campus Review’s Futureproof Now conference last week focussed upon the ways university education needed to change to fit with the jobs and employment patterns of the near future. University educators were called upon to be innovative and responsive to the ...

Labor has slammed the Abbott Government for the large decline in apprentices since its election in September 2013. New figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research show apprentices in training in September 2013 totalled 417,700. This is compared with ...

Increasing proportions of sessional staff make management more complicated; the right software can help keep everything in order. The increase in sessional staff at universities and colleges is one of the most significant changes in Australia’s academic workforce from the ...

Completion rates for government-funded VET programs at Certificate I and above have declined slightly, according to fresh data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. The NCVER report, The likelihood of completing a government-funded VET program 2009–13, estimated that the ...

TAFEs have welcomed a federal government crackdown on poor childcare training, following a report that revealed many courses were too short to enable adequate skills development or assessment. The report, compiled by the Australian Skills Quality Authority, was released this week by ...

  Competing pressures on campus can make it hard for academics to determine the right thing to do. By Elisabeth Shaw Although universities generally have extensive policies and procedures in place to guide students and faculty members, there are times ...

Bookaneer looks like a modern coinage – a word invented to make reading more attractive to small children by associating it with pirates. Indeed, an episode of the popular TV show for young learners, Sesame Street, has Elmo joining the ...

More than one-fifth of university staff have reported working more than 51 hours a week, and many said the extra – often uncompensated – work was necessary to meet the requirements of their job. A nationwide survey of more than 7000 staff, ...

This curious word, abbreviated from vaporise, has had a short life in science fiction, as a verb meaning “to vaporise by means of a weapon” and more generally “to destroy completely”. Either meaning would apply in the citation of the ...

A New York law school is offering to refund a percentage of its graduates' tuition fees should they fail to gain quality full-time employment within nine months of completing their studies. The Brooklyn Law School has pledged to grant lump ...