NCVER News | 28 November 2013 Last chance to register for the webinar 'A half-open door: pathways for VET award holders into Australian universities' Get in quick for NCVER's last webinar for 2013 as spaces are filling fast. To be held on Wednesday 4 December, the webinar will present the findings from recent research by Louise Watson and Pauline Hagel on the substantial differences between universities in the proportion of undergraduate commencing students admitted on the basis of a vocational education and training (VET) award. Berwyn Clayton, Director of the Work-based Education Research Centre at Victoria University and Janelle Davis, Relationships Manager, UWS/VET from … [Read more...]
Vic TAFEs probing merger
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Latrobe Valley Express | 25 November 2013 A potential merger between GippsTAFE and Chisholm Institute of TAFE will be workshopped over the coming months, through a Memorandum of Understanding signed between parties exploring joint course delivery models. GippsTAFE chair John Mitchell has confirmed a "very robust and extensive review of options" is underway, designed to form a business model of operations and course delivery to improve the financial viability of the institutions. Mitchell said: We are asking how we can share our product delivery and capabilities while reducing our costs - we are being very methodical about gathering factual information to actually guide us … [Read more...]
“Wrong time to break a promise” : Bolt
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Herald Sun | 28 November 2013 Not even Andrew Bolt will sign up to Christopher Pyne's casuistry over walking away from the "unity ticket" on schools funding. I believe Christopher Pyne when he says Labor left its education reforms in an "incomprehensible mess". Trouble is, I also believed the Education Minister before the election. I believed Pyne when he said: ''You can vote Liberal or Labor and you'll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school." Now, after several days of Pyne spin, I don't know if the Government will break its first reckless promise or not. But it had better not. Here is the issue. Before the election, Labor signed up some states for a … [Read more...]
UA urges reduction in regulatory burden
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Universities Australia | 28 November 2013 In its submission to the Commission of Audit, Universities Australia (UA) has urged commissioners to place their higher education focus on achieving efficiency through reducing the reporting and regulatory burden on universities. UA says that, with $3.3 billion worth of cuts to higher education made or announced over the past 12 months, universities have already done much of the heavy lifting in assisting the Government to realise its objective of bringing the budget back to surplus. UA chief executive Belinda Robinson says: While fiscal prudence is to be encouraged and we acknowledge the scale of the budget repair task, policy makers … [Read more...]
