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Holmesglen receives nursing places

TAFE-delivered nursing degrees will become a reality from August, after education minister Julia Gillard approved Holmesglen Institute of TAFE’s application to offer 40 Commonwealth-supported nursing places next semester. The approval concludes a process that’s taken Holmesglen two and a half ...

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Jobs compact also about training: Rudd

Work-based training is one of the objectives of the $650 million Jobs Fund which the federal government agreed to with cross-bench senators Brown and Fielding during February negotiations over the government’s $42 billion economic stimulus package. Announcing details of the ...

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Not all bad news

What are young people’s labour market chances in the recession, asks Erica Smith. In early 2007, at the height of the economic boom, I presented a paper to a national workshop that was looking at youth transitions. The paper compared ...

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Vic TAFE “full service” funding clarified

TAFEs will receive around 10 per cent extra funding to meet their costs as “full service providers” under Victoria’s revamped VET system, the acting deputy secretary of Skills Victoria revealed last week. Philip Clarke told the Skilling for the Future ...

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Spotting the great universities

Australia punches well above its weight in sport by investing in sports we choose to excel at. Higher education should take a leaf from the sporting book. We cannot afford a system in which all universities are effectively comprehensive, says ...

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