One of the criticisms of VET is that there are too many qualifications, many of which have few to no enrolments. While on the face of it, this can be seen to be true, we need to be very clear ...

With Australia just coming out of recession, it is unsurprising that there has been a strong focus from federal and state governments on addressing unemployment levels and ensuring that our university graduates are able to find jobs.  The Australian Government’s ...

Pascale Quester of Swinburne University of Technology joined the HEDx podcast in partnership with Campus Review at the end of her first 100 days as Vice Chancellor. She reflected on how all universities have the chance to leave the peloton ...

This article concerns ‘transparency and accountability’ in the national vocational education and training (VET) sector. The theory is that transparency begets accountability, that stakeholders make better decisions if better informed, and in aggregate this has quality and efficiency benefits. This analysis ...

In this second part in the series on industry views on training product reform, we tackle head on calls by non-industry stakeholders for VET to be more broad-based instead of being specifically job facing. Over the last decade there have ...

As we enter December, we are bringing to a close many of the internal changes demanded of our universities by the happenings of 2020.  Our “return to campus” plans are getting advanced, we are opening internal borders, the success of local ...

One of the first priorities for the new National Cabinet Reform Committee on Skills, being the old Skills Ministers forum, is to identify a reform direction for Training Product Design and Development. In the first of four articles, I put ...

In the early afternoon of 8 November 2016 in Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma) the results of the 2016 United States presidential election became available through radio and television broadcasts. A then 12- or 13-year-old Burmese girl, my former neighbour in ...

The higher education sector is going through significant changes. Universities are facing financial losses and shifts in their teaching and research funding. The changes are so significant that some in the sector suggest that the purpose of higher education needs ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, people globally have started using video conferencing platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet for work, study and social meetings. 'Zoom' has become a verb, synonymous with video conferencing. Many Zoom meetings are recorded, ...