A new report shows that to simply maintain current participation rates in higher education and VET, both sectors will need rapid enrollment growth throughout the coming years. Participation rates, in this context, refers to the proportion of people who are either ...

Two higher education policy heavyweights have found unlikely common ground. HECS architect Bruce Chapman and the Grattan Institute’s Andrew Norton have agreed that the tertiary student loan threshold could be lowered. Norton, Grattan Institute higher education program director, is pushing ...

National Tertiary Education Union industrial relations claim threatens the demise of the academy and international competitiveness. Academic staff at Australian Universities enjoy flexible working hours and freedom to pursue their research and intellectual interests within their disciplines with only minimal ...

Doltone House in Sydney played host to FUTUREPROOF 2016, a meeting of higher education minds to debate and discuss the major issues affecting the Australian university and VET sectors. Speakers including VCs Barney Glover and Peter Coaldrake, Senator Kim Carr, ...

Focus on education must last beyond federal elections, the chief executive of a multinational educational publisher has argued. David Levin, from McGraw-Hill Education – one of the ‘big three’ educational publishers – said education, unlike elections, is always around. It shouldn’t be pandered ...

Federal Labor has refused to disclose details of whom it consulted for its VET FEE-HELP cap, though it certainly didn’t talk to two of the major industry groups representing TAFEs and private education providers. The $8000 question now is, Whom did Labor consult? ...

Technology, rural shortages and changing definitions of mental health will all affect the profession, but opportunities for careers will remain. Rising rates of mental ill-health in recent years have been matched by an overall increased awareness and understanding of such ...

The higher education sector has welcomed the Commonwealth Government’s release of an options – or discussion – paper to garner feedback from stakeholders as to the direction of policy. The paper has been referred to as a reset button that ...

Call it a budding innovation ecosystem, or an education turf war. Either way, universities have their sights set on Sydney’s west. But the vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University has argued the incoming education boom could be brought to a bumper-to-bumper ...

There’s one thing we can say for sure about higher education policy for the next 12 months: no matter which party wins the election, there will be more consultations and reviews. Last year, Labor announced a green paper-white paper approach ...