Universities hold the upper hand when determining eligible students and in the process keeping TAFE guessing, writes Sylvia Whitmore. While the TAFE sector’s initial reaction to the Bradley higher education reforms has been largely one of enthusiasm, there is increasing ...

College’s collapse leaves 61 stranded Another private training college in Victoria has collapsed, leaving scores of Australian students in limbo and raising fears that problems in international education have spread to colleges that teach local students, reports The Age. The College ...

Two board members of Julia Gillard’s handpicked advisory group, Skills Australia, have reportedly joined the chorus of discontent over the federal government’s flagship VET funding program. ACTU president Sharan Burrow and Australian Industry Group chief executive Heather Ridout – both ...

The Rudd government’s national broadband network will be a massive consumer of new skills which could prove to be a bonanza for the training sector. But questions as to how many training places, at what level, in what areas of ...

Do educators and business people share the same view of e-learning, asks John Mitchell. Over the past decade Australian VET has actively investigated e-learning from the perspectives of policy, theory and pedagogy, but not so much from the point of ...

Tenders called for green jobs corps The federal government has called for tenders to provide 10,000 training places under its National Green Jobs Corps. Parliamentary employment secretary Jason Clare said several changes had been made to the original tender following ...

The problems that have emerged in VET for international students could replicate themselves in domestic VET unless the federal government curtails its “ideological obsession” to foster competition in the training market, according to the Australian Education Union. AEU federal president ...

Establishing standards does not demand standardisation of curricula – if we get it right. Kerri-Lee Harris takes an international perspective. Academic standards are currently a hot topic in Australian higher education – at least among university leaders and commentators. In ...

If the higher education sector is to take seriously the federal government’s 20/40 targets, then there are three main challenges that need to be confronted, writes Trevor Gale. The federal government has set two key equity targets which is driving ...

University governance has shifted to a more corporate model and the role of the chancellor is evolving to suit, writes John Phillips. WS Gilbert waxed lyrically and humorously about the role of the modern major general and the knowledge and ...