When second-year University of Western Sydney medical student Kyle Sheldrick took the blood pressure of the acting Prime Minister and minister for just about everything and pronounced the result “right on the money”, Julia Gillard looked relieved. “I’m just pleased ...

Dr Maree Gladwin changed jobs earlier this year. After nine years in a senior role in equity and diversity at the University of Melbourne, she switched to another senior position developing mid-career researchers at Deakin University. No big deal. What ...

Peter Quiddington’s ‘Come together: an Asian Bologna?’ (CR, 18.11.08) makes interesting points about an overarching Asia-Pacific regime that can form the basis of a Bologna process, involving harmonisation of education standards and qualifications in the Asia-Pacific and the issue of ...

The universities of Bologna and Paris vie for the title of the oldest European university and Oxford University is the oldest in the English-speaking world. It has no precise foundation date, but teaching existed there in 1096 and developed apace ...

The understanding of what postgraduate supervision involves has moved beyond describing the qualities of a good supervisor to conceptualising and theorising the nature of their work. In 2007, Professor Chris Halse, director of the Centre for Educational Research at UWS ...

TAFE NSW will seek allies to help it survive national reforms to the training market, according to an in-house strategy document. The discussion paper, prepared last month for meetings with regional trainers and union representatives, says Australia’s largest training provider ...

A great deal is being asked of Australia’s ageing and highly casualised VET workforce. Not only are they expected to deliver a substantial part of the Rudd Government’s “education revolution” – not least the massive Productivity Places Program – but ...

Australian VET research may no longer be in its infancy, but it has a way to go before it is recognised as having reached adulthood – at least within its own national boundaries. Roger Harris, professor of adult and vocational ...

Training providers who service the needs of enterprises might take a back seat if a model being driven in the Clare Valley gains imitators. The model involves the training provider, River Murray Training (RMT), doing everything it can to hand ...

If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought. Surveys of several thousand people in Britain, the US and elsewhere have found ...