Higher Education Whisperer

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet and there are other foreseeable challenges as great in the near future, so perhaps it is time for uni...

Company PWC is undertaking a review of the Certificate I, Certificate II, and Certificate III in Information, Digital Media and Technology, ...

Study to work , ABC Radio, presented by Richard Aedy Study to work: 2.6 years to get a job after uni (ABC Radio, 21 November 2019 5:30P...

In " Unis should get together with TAFEs as a way of being more efficient says minister " (Robert Bolton, AFR, 25 February 2018)...

Senator Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, has announced changes to the VET FEE-HELP student loan scheme. Loans will on...

A Victorian VET Funding Review by Bruce Mackenzie and Neil Coulson, was released September 2015 (incorrectly dated February 2016 on the Vic...

in " Understanding For-Profit College and Community College Choice " Iloh and Tierney (2014) have investigated why US students cho...

I was surprised to see a Google AdSense advertisement from TAFE Queensland saying " Do Uni Differently ". Australia has strict law...

The most innovative thing I have seen at the Reimagination Summit (Star Casino in Sydney) today is IT Vendor Certification and Vocationa...

The Australian Education Union has released the report " The Capture of Public Wealth by the for-profit VET Sector " (Serena Yu an...

Last Friday was Halloween and walking down to a tram stop in Sydney's inner west I saw many children in costumes (I was jealous of the...

Recently I took part in a discussion of how to introduce young people to a career in IT. One point made was that this does not need to be vi...

The University of Queensland is reported to be selling its Ipswich campus to the University of Southern Queensland (I visited the very we...

In " Excellence through diversity: Funding flexibility the key " , Professor Ian Young (Vice-Chancellor) and Professor Gareth Evan...

The " Report of the Review of the Demand Driven Funding System " by Dr David Kemp and Andrew Norton was released by the Departmen...

Today I received my Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40110) from Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) in the mail. This doe...