The higher education sector might not be too happy with the TEQSA legislation, but TAFE bodies want it used as a template for the national VET regulator. By John Ross. A national VET regulator (NVR) created under the federal government’s ...

The 2006 Census indicates that two-thirds of the people with doctoral qualifications in Australia are male, writes Sharon Bell Another major conference on Equity in Higher Education is about to be held in Sydney. This is noteworthy on two counts. ...

TAFEs could end up as the big winners from the federal government’s structural adjustment fund, even though they can’t apply in their own right – but they could also end up victims. Applications to the structural adjustment fund (SAF) suggest ...

Tertiary institutions are much too inflexible and rigid on the matter of changing programs writes Stuart Middleton I bought some shirts the other day. When I got home I found that one of them was too small, it does pay ...

SA government reverses the trend, writes John Mitchell. The elephant in the room in VET is TAFE. It delivers most of the training and enrols the vast majority of students in VET, but its owners, the state and territory governments, ...

It is that time of year, the eve of semester start, when lecturers, fulltime and casual, feel the slow burn stress gather momentum. With some rhetorical infusions Joseph Gora re-imagines a typical scenario Trudy Crappay, an experienced casual academic at ...

Bureaucrats will never have ALTC’s ability to energise a community of activists willing to commit their own time to the collective improvement of teaching and learning writes Peter Goodyear Flood damage is insidious. Its effects can be far-reaching. The latest ...

Shutting down the council will be catastrophic for student experience and for innovative teaching projects which have long term benefits, writes Shirley Alexander Last week’s announcement that the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) would be axed sent shock waves ...

Move aside Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. Here comes Canberra, the Learning Capital of the world. By John Ross. The ACT would trump Victoria’s training guarantee by promising places for all its school students in the territory’s newly integrated tertiary education ...

Resistance to TAFE students coming into university courses often comes from staff not from the university hierarchies. By Annette Blackwell. There is a growing awareness among students of articulation and credit transfer opportunities between the vocational education and training sector ...