Industry and educators need to find a neutral space in which they can unpack the language around their commitment to upskilling the workforce. This is a key message from a communique widely circulated to education policy-makers and business and ...
More »Agreement to increase tertiary education take-up
TAFE Qld and the University of Southern Queensland signed an agreement on Friday to smooth the pathways between the two sectors.
More »Norton joins Grattan Institute
The first research project of the Grattan Institute's new higher education program chief will focus on base funding and teaching. Researching the true cost of teaching in universities will be one of the first projects undertaken by the Grattan Institute ...
More »Education and industry face hard facts at skills symposium
VET and universities are not getting pathways right but both face difficulty in trying to get industry to move away from the ‘here and now’. The relationship between the VET sector and universities is not working and needs a fundamental ...
More »Student numbers in VET reach 1.8 million
The number of training organisations delivering publicly funded VET increased from 2455 to 2794 training organisations. There has been an overall increase in the number of students enrolled in the public vocational education and training (VET) system in 2010, a ...
More »ASQA and TEQSA: same intent but still poles apart
The overt remit of TEQSA legislation is quality assurance but the VET mandate was for aggregation, refinement and consistency, not reform. A major cultural shift needs to take place in vocational education training before national regulation can work effectively, the ...
More »Call for united approach on relevant finance research
Accounting research should improve accounting practice, rather than simply describe or understand or critique it Accounting research is often considered pointless and irrelevant by practitioners according to leading finance academics and leaders of business who contributed to a book released ...
More »Barber’s dream university in cyberspace
The boomers need to remember what drove the revolt in the Arab world was twitter and facebook not universities One day kids will be driving with their parents past closed universities and the kids will ask ‘what is that joint ...
More »SES obsession bad for policy
If there is too much emphasis on SES in Australian education policy are we funding the right areas? There is an over emphasis on socioeconomic status throughout Australia’s policy world Dr Gary Marks principal research fellow at the Australian Council ...
More »Victoria’s VET watchdog on hold
The plan is to assess the extent to which the Commonwealth International Students Ombudsman would meet the commitments given by the Victorian coalition and then address any deficiencies. Victorian tertiary education minister Peter Hall has confirmed that he is putting ...
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