Emerging 3D designers to exhibit in London

13/09/2012 By
WA CIT

CIT Newsroom   13 September 2012 Six 3D Design students at WA’s Central Institute of TAFE have been invited to exhibit in an international designers exhibition to be held in London.  The emerging designers are second and third year students. The furniture and product designers were hand picked by author and London Design Festival curator, Ms Suzanne Trocmé, who was a guest judge at the recent Vibrant Visions in Design (VIVID) in Melbourne, which is the contemporary section of Furnitex, Australia's largest furniture trade show. Forty student designers were selected to show their furniture at Vivid and 18 came from Central, by far the largest representation of any design school … [Read more...]

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Chinese study applications leap 20%

13/09/2012 By
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The Australian   12 September 2012 Student applications to Australian feeder courses, universities and colleges from China are surging back, with some institutions seeing a rise of up to 20%.   The fresh interest comes two years after sudden changes in immigration rules by the government, and other adverse factors, including a strong currency, threatened the future of Australia's largest offshore market. Education agents in China have reported that Australia, once the No 1 offshore destination for Chinese students, was challenging Britain for the No 2 spot, having slumped to a distant third. But the US is now the favourite overseas destination for young Chinese. Wang Wei, … [Read more...]

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NSW education cuts in the “best interests of students”

13/09/2012 By
Budget cuts

ABC News   11 September 2012              Daily Telegraph   12 September 2012 The New South Wales Government has announced $1.7 billion worth of funding cuts across the education sector.  It says 800 jobs will be cut at TAFE institutions, with fees rising from next year.  Public schools will also feel the pinch with 600 department jobs lost. Funding to Catholic and independent schools will be frozen, saving $116 million over the next four years. Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has denied he bowed to pressure from the private sector and federal Liberal party to reduce the cuts to those schools and described the cuts as "even handed and this is fair [with all] … [Read more...]

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Class warriors take on poor schools with education cuts

13/09/2012 By
Budget cuts

The Conversation     12 September  2012 Our Liberal-run states are locked into a self-made and self-fulfilling prophesy of budgetary crisis. It seems that running a deficit budget which is at the heart of liberal Keynesian economic theory is anathema today to Victoria, NSW and Queensland state treasurers. And if a state needs to cut its budget you might assume it would look at non-essential services, such as the state promotion and marketing budget or support for major private corporate events such as horse racing. But what do Queensland and NSW do? Well conservative voters have private health cover and their children attend independent schools so they attack the essential … [Read more...]

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“Massification” continues to transform higher education

13/09/2012 By
China grads

University World News   2 September 2012 Higher education participation and enrolment has expanded considerably over the past century, and particularly since 1970. However, growth predicted over the 30 years from 2000-30 is likely to be higher than that experienced between 1970 and 2000. The number of students enrolled in higher education by 2030 is forecast to rise from 99.4 million in 2000 to 414.2 million in 2030 – an increase of 314%. If an extra five years is added to these projections, the number of students pursuing higher education by 2035 is likely to exceed 520 million. This growth is being fuelled by the transformation that we are witnessing in the developing and … [Read more...]

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APEC endorses mobility & compatibility in HE across the Pacific

13/09/2012 By
APEC

         APEC communique  9 September 2012                               The Australian   12 September 2012 Leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit endorsed an ambitious proposal to greatly enhance course mobility and compatibility for higher education in the Pacific rim.  President Vladimir Putin, the APEC host this year in Vladivostok, announced the agreement that education ministers would do all they could to encourage cross-border educational exchanges. Commentators said the Vladivostok declaration sounded promising but must be followed by action.  Christopher Ziguras, deputy dean of learning, teaching and international at … [Read more...]

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The Scan Main Edition 13 September 2012

13/09/2012 By
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CQU promises to be different sort of dual sector uni With the Newman Government having given in principle support to the merger of Central Queensland University (CQU) and Central Queensland Institute of TAFE (CQIT) CQU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman is promising a new type of tertiary institution.  He said that while vocational students would be able to pathway into higher-level courses, higher education students would also be encouraged to browse vocational qualifications.  “Competence-based skill packages” could be built into degrees, with engineering students picking up skills in welding or boiler making and theatre students obtaining power tool certificates. [Continue … [Read more...]

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Vic TAFE cuts deepen

13/09/2012 By
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Mornington Peninsula Leader   12 September 2012 Victorian TAFE institutes lodged their "transition plans"  for dealing with the $300 million cut to TAFE funding imposed in the budget in May.  Announcements to date suggest that actual job losses look set eclipse early estimates of 2000. Chisholm is to slash 220 jobs across its Berwick, Cranbourne, Dandenong, Frankston, Mornington Peninsula and Bass Coast campuses, although no campuses are to close. Chisholm Institute chief executive Maria Peters says Chisholm will continue to offer 230 courses under the Victorian Training Guarantee, but some courses won't be offered in 2013.  These include business administration and legal … [Read more...]

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Victoria University’s revised agenda for survival

13/09/2012 By
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13 September 2012 In a revised  strategy statement , released to staff on  12 September, Victoria University (VU) outlines its  plans to create a suite of broad "Career Start" bachelor degrees pitched at students with Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks below VU's minimum of 50: ....from 2014 onwards, in addition to our Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor Science and our range of professional degrees, [we will] have a small suite of Career Start Bachelor Degrees to provide the foundations that undergraduate students, who may not have been high achievers hitherto, will need for their future careers...It is anticipated that there will be four or five of these degrees that will probably include a … [Read more...]

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Sunshine Coast & Southbank link up

13/09/2012 By
Southbank

The Australian    11 September 2012 The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) and Brisbane-based Southbank Institute of Technology have announced an agreement that will see USC academics teaching on site at Southbank from the beginning of next year. The agreement initially applies to three degrees in accounting, legal studies and tourism, leisure and event management. USC vice-chancellor Greg Hill said they were popular fields at both institutions, and more degrees could be added in the future. The programs will be open to all students. Southbank said the agreement would enable its graduates to further their studies without leaving the campus. … [Read more...]

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