New stockade for Ballarat

05/09/2012 By
Bollards

NTEU Newsroom    5 September  2012 This isn't particularly newsworthy but it's a crack at doing an engaging media release - so we'll post it and Front Page it, just to encourage more of it.  Most media releases are straight up and down  - yes, hard not to be, when you're dealing with serious issues, we  know... not criticising...and neither are we encouraging riotous behaviour.... There’s a new stockade for Ballarat but this time’s it’s one that been erected by the forces of law and order.  This afternoon  (5 September) a stockade of large water-filled bollards was erected on the lawns of the University of Ballarat to keep the Save TAFE protestors away from Premier Ted … [Read more...]

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Market more important than outcomes

05/09/2012 By
Loot in the bag...?

Campus Review   3 September  2012 The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained that private providers were on the ascendant and argued that the demise of TAFEs and rise of private training companies “could be the biggest crisis in education that this country has ever seen.” Over the top? Maybe. It is clear that there is a crisis and much concern about the future of VET in Australia. When the creation of a market becomes an end in itself and profit becomes the driver rather than the provision of education, rent-seeking behaviour is going to occur at the expense of the public provider and quality of … [Read more...]

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VET Frankenstein devours its creators

05/09/2012 By
Frankenstein

Campus Review   3 September Around Australia, treasury officials and policy advisers are sitting on review committees reconstructing the VET sector. Unfortunately, their model is based on a simplistic understanding of the sector, says OECD consultant Dr Phillip Toner.    The University of Sydney political economist said their major reference point, the Victorian government’s VET policy, deserves lampooning. In future, when the public policy textbooks are written, this policy and these people will be held up to ridicule. Toner described the Victorian situation as “a classic example of where the simplified textbook model of a market economy head butts up against a real world. … [Read more...]

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Researching Adult & Vocational Education (RAVE) Workshop 7 September

05/09/2012 By

  Researching Adult & Vocational Education (RAVE) School of Education & Arts, University of Ballarat   Adult Learning Australia   & Brotherhood of St Laurence   Learning through life and practice   Adult Learners Week One-day Ballarat Open Forum   10.30am – 4.30 pm, Friday Sept 7 2012 T127 School of Education & Arts (Main) Mt Helen Campus, University of Ballarat The purpose of this event is to provide students, researchers and practitioners in education, adult and vocational learning with an accessible forum to discuss new and cutting-edge, international research and theories about the sorts of learning acquired through life and its implication … [Read more...]

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