While articulation and connectivity between the VET and university sectors are crucial to meet the government’s social inclusion agenda and workforce needs, convoluted and perplexing regulatory requirements and “horse-trading” between the Commonwealth and the states are significant barriers to these ...

Rankings can trigger innovation; the report says. On the other hand, there is “potential for rankings-influenced decision-making to undermine access for disadvantaged student populations”. Other concerns include over-emphasis on research, widening the ratio between full-time and adjunct academics, “substituting improvement ...

Another step towards a unified tertiary education sector was taken last month with the release of a consultation paper on reforming the Australian Qualifications Framework. The paper follows a commitment from education minister Julia Gillard in March to build a ...

Concern over unacceptably high PhD and masters non-completion rates and long completion times has led Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRUA) to embark on a program to help remedy the situation.ion rates in Australia are hard to pin down, but have ...

India pushes for commonality among Commonwealth countriestation for the awarding of degrees. But student opposition is widespread and heated, with one campus occupation lasting several months. Hard times at British libraries Research libraries in the US are being pummelled by ...

Skymapper’s to capture the southern skiespring Observatory. SkyMapper is a custom-built telescope that over five years will undertake the Southern Sky Survey – the first ever systematic digital map of the entire southern skies. In the process, it will produce ...

The federal government has confirmed that TAFEs and private providers are to be excluded from the entitlement-based higher education system, at least for the time being. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations said the government intended to limit ...

Pay isn’t the deal-breaker in enterprise bargaining negotiations, National Tertiary Education Union officials said after a day of coordinated strikes in Victoria and Tasmania. Ongoing delays in enterprise bargaining negotiations were behind the day of actions, the union said. So ...