The most powerful industry connections are often the personal ones. By Anita Roberts.   The industry-led VET system has stirred many organisations and individuals to expend considerable energy working out how to talk to industry. AQTF quality indicators and standards ...

Imagine the benefits if training packages were simplified.   The recent OECD report on VET in Australia bluntly called for the replacement of training packages by much briefer statements of skill standards. It was alarming news for those who had ...

Arabesque your way to a PhD. Now that’s a concept, but last week Garvan Institute endocrinologist and PhD student Sue Lynn Lau won the graduate student category of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “Dance your PhD” contest. ...

It is 1839 and a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through long wet grass on an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre ...

This rather obscure word is in the spotlight with the Times Online campaign last September to save “endangered words”, ie, those due to be zapped from the next edition of the Collins Dictionary. Agrestic has never had a great following ...

A new report gives a damning analysis of IT spending in universities, but the sector says it is spending up to make cost-saving measures elsewhere. Beverley Head reports.   Technology analyst IDC has delivered a damning broadside regarding the education ...

Taking for granted government funding brings with it a risk of taking for granted the international student market, says Tony Adams.   It is still a while away before we have to make plans for this year’s Australian International Education ...

The short-term future is bright for international education, despite – or maybe because of – the financial crisis. And Australia is in the box seat, as the middle classes in the world’s most populous countries go hunting for a quality ...

Market reforms to the vocational education and training system have been put on the backburner following last week’s meeting of the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education (MCVTE). And in yet another sign of an impending marriage of higher ...

The US has recovered from a post-9/11 lull in its international higher education industry, but pound for pound, Australia still punches way harder than its international education competitors. A report released last week by the Institute of International Education (IIE) ...