Regulatory and quality assurance arrangements for higher education and VET should be as consistent as possible. But the opposite is happening, writes Leesa Wheelahan. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has decided to establish separate VET and higher education regulators, ...

How will mission-based compacts help inspire radical reform in teaching and learning, asks Kerri-Lee Krause. Mission-based compacts represent one of three pillars in the federal government’s ambitious higher education reform agenda. A second is that of standards, to be monitored ...

Deferral rates in regional areas are closely related to participation – and something needs to be done about it, writes Andrew Harvey. A recent Victorian inquiry argued that rising deferral rates are the most notable trend in higher education participation ...

Current considerations about regional provision need to have much more substance and potential for impact, writes David Battersby. On the eve of last Christmas, Senator Kim Carr, as the acting education minister, released the latest in a series of discussion ...

What’s so “silly” about having a teaching qualification for higher education, asks Yoni Ryan. In a recent edition of Campus Review (18.01.02)Kerri-Lee Harris dismissed the role of the graduate certificate in higher education as a measure or indicator of teaching ...

The income support proposals pass the policy test, writes John Ross. The ‘no losers’ question is a favourite trick with broadcast journalists these days. Can you guarantee that no Australian worker will be worse off because of your industrial relations ...

Preparing new teachers for the leadership roles they will inhabit – probably sooner than expected – could be a good start towards the professionalisation of university teachers, writes Judy Nagy. The recent discussion about the graduate certificate of higher education ...

Could the government’s new higher education equity policy end up being unfair? It’s a risk we face, writes Andrew Norton. Under draft policies, for the first time a low-SES classification would deliver significant benefits to individuals. Partnerships funding would oblige ...

Parental education is not a good proxy for measuring socioeconomic status, writes Trevor Gale. The long-awaited move to a new way of measuring the socioeconomic status of higher education students is gathering pace. Submissions in response to DEEWR’s recent discussion ...

Managing the demands of work-integrated intense higher education, by Stephen Billett. A growing concern for many universities is meeting the increasing demand to locate, organise and sustain their students’ workplace experiences for programs with work-integrated learning components. As one senior ...