VET financial information 2011

29/09/2012 By
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NCVER    |    28 September 2012   Financial information for 2011 for Australia’s public vocational education and training (VET) compiled by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)shows operating revenues for the public VET sector were $7.869 billion in 2011, an increase of $720.5 million (10.1%) compared with 2010. Comparing revenue for 2011 with 2010 shows: revenue from the Australian Government increased by 7.8%, or $159.7 million revenue from the state and territory governments rose by 18.3%, or $613.9 million total operating expenditures also increased to a total of $7.900 billion, an increase of $326.0 million (4.3%) from … [Read more...]

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NCVER news, research and events

29/09/2012 By
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NCVER News    |    28 September 2012 Assessing the impact of research: a case study of the LSAY Research Innovation and Expansion Fund An increasing and important requirement of any funded research program is the ability to demonstrate that it is relevant and useful to public policy and to practitioners. This study takes the framework NCVER developed for measuring research impact to assess the outcomes from research and activities funded under the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth Research Innovation and Expansion Fund. It finds that the purpose of the fund, to start a ripple effect in the use of the LSAY data, was met, and that the research undertaken had strong resonances … [Read more...]

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Academics behaving badly? Universities and online reputations

29/09/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    29 September 2012 Trying to control your reputation online is a bit like trying to clean up wee in a toddler pool. You are much more likely to get your hands dirty than achieve any kind of meaningful damage control. Many universities in Australia are trying to define what is acceptable – and unacceptable – for their staff members to say online. Academics too, are exploring the boundaries between expression of academic freedom and the obligation to their institutions in an age when anything you say or write can be easily posted online. A number of high-profile cases of academic trouble in cyberspace has prompted universities to try and protect their … [Read more...]

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ANU vice-chancellor issues MOOCs warning

29/09/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    29 September 2012 Australian universities should be wary of being their “own worst enemy” when embracing Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) delivery, says Australian National University vice chancellor Ian Young. Comparing online course content with newspaper content, Professor Young questioned why Rupert Murdoch made the decision to deliver news content online for free. Once you have given away something it is very difficult then to make people pay for it.  If you’re giving away content and you’ve got a primary product that it’s in competition with, then you better hope what you’re giving away is inferior to your primary product, otherwise … [Read more...]

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