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The Scan 22 March 2012

29/08/2012 By intermediatescan

If you're looking for the latest edition of The Scan, it's HERE _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles, Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Commonwealth unveils multi-billion dollar skills plan The Commonwealth government has elevated skills training to be a key economic driver by promising that all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ASQA, Commonwealth-State relations, General, Quality audits, TEQSA, universities, University reform, Vocational education & training Tagged With: ASQA, Attrition, content, Diversity, Drop out rates, Education, Equity, Fees, Governance, Higher education revolution, Income contingent loans, Markets, NTEU, public universities, Quality audits, Students, TAFE, TAFE funding

Hilmer’s pitch on deregulating fees

09/08/2012 By intermediatescan

UNSW Newsroom 8 August 2012 What's been largely lost in the heated debate over fee deregulation is the urgency of the financial situation facing our universities. Revenue is simply failing to keep pace with costs, as evidenced by the number of universities now engaged in redundancy programs in an effort to reduce spending. Universities should be able to charge a higher student contribution for selected “premium” degrees, such as medicine, law, engineering and business, which qualify graduates for well paid professional careers - the higher the potential private benefit, the higher the student contribution. Under HECS-HELP, repayments are only made when a certain income … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Group of 8, University of NSW Tagged With: Diversity, Education, Equity, Fees, Funding, Income contingent loans

Fees debate gathers pace

05/07/2012 By intermediatescan

Universities Australia (UA) is to host a workshop on 30 July for vice-chancellors on fee deregulation as debate on the divisive issue gathers pace. __________________________________ [Continue Reading]... It is being seen as an attempt by UA chairman and Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis' to forge an agreement among the often fractious group of university heads in the lead up to the next federal election. Fee deregulation is among the most contentious of issues and one which Professor Davis is an advocate. However, securing any agreement among his 38 fellow VCs is likely to be conditional on measures that would benefit universities more widely, including those with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: universities, Universities Australia Tagged With: Equity, Fees, Funding, Income contingent loans, Students, Vice-Chancellors

Vic TAFEs to seek backdown on cuts

18/05/2012 By intermediatescan

The Australian 18 May 2012 Victoria's TAFEs are set to make a pitch to the Baillieu government to persuade it to relent on its budget cuts at a key meeting between the two sides on 29 May. The directors are expected to press the government to back down on its plans to scrap special funding for TAFEs that is used to pay government sponsored wage deals and fund the sector's un-profitable community service obligations. North Melbourne Institute of TAFE chief executive Andy Giddy said he wasn't sure the government had fully understood the impact of the budget cuts on TAFEs. While the government has sought about $100 million worth of cuts to its training budget following a blowout in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocational education & training Tagged With: Diversity, Education, Equity, Fees, Funding, Income contingent loans, TAFE, TAFE funding, Victorian skills reform, Victorian TAFE cuts

The Scan 10 May 2012

10/05/2012 By intermediatescan

Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Budget relief but pain lies ahead Anxiety gave way to relief across universities after Labor handed down a higher education budget [on 8 May] that maintained indexation and delivered a $120 million increase to the overall research budget, lifting it to $1.72 billion. University chiefs expressed delight at the announcement by Tertiary Education … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budget, International students, Southern Cross University Tagged With: Diversity, Education, Equity, Fees, Funding, Higher education revolution, Income contingent loans, Industrial relations, NTEU, public universities, Quality audits, Research, RTOs, Staffing, TAFE, TAFE funding, TEQSA, Victorian skills reform

Obama slow jams the news

28/04/2012 By intermediatescan

The affordability of university education in the US has become a real issue and costs are set to increase even more with a proposed doubling of interest on student loans. But the Barak Ness monster ain’t buying it …now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. This is the sort of thing you can only do once but, as Mae West said of life, if you get it right you only need one go. Watch how Obama dumps the mike and Jimmy Fallon’s reaction. Republicans weren't amused: Backlash begins after Obama slow jams the news … [Read more...]

Filed Under: International Tagged With: Equity, Fees, Income contingent loans

The Scan 19 April 2012

19/04/2012 By intermediatescan

Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet. Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Salary showdown on cards Universities and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) appear headed for a showdown over a claim for pay rises of more than 20% over 3 years. The NTEU is expected to seek annual salary increases of 7% for staff – a claim branded ludicrous by the employer group, the Australian Higher Education Industrial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, Group of 8, International, International students, Qualifications, Quality audits, Queensland University, Technology, universities, University reform, university staffing Tagged With: Academic appointments, ASQA, Canberra University, curriculum, Education, Equity, Fees, Funding, Higher education revolution, Income contingent loans, Industrial relations, Innovation, International, Markets, NTEU, Online learning, staff ratios, Staffing, Students, Vice-Chancellors

External validation gets thumbs up

24/03/2012 By intermediatescan

The Australian 21 March 2012 Training advocates have backed plans to deploy external 'validators' to check that vocational graduates can do what they've been trained for, under federal government proposal to stamp out rorts and improve training quality.Commentators say “external validation” is one of the few genuinely new proposals in the government’s 84-page skills statement, which it released on Monday. But the government has only agreed to trials, and the details remain hazy. The government’s statement says the expansion of private training has created more choice, but also concerns that providers operate with “their eye on the money and not education”. It says training … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocational education & training Tagged With: ASQA, Fees, Income contingent loans, Quality audits, TAFE, TAFE funding

Skills for all Australians – Government statement

19/03/2012 By intermediatescan

19 March 2012 The Gillard Government has unveiled its formal offer to the states and territories to "turbo-charge skills training and help more Australians get the jobs they want." The offer, which will be taken to April's COAG meeting, will aim to make sure around an additional 375,000 students complete qualifications over the next five years. Under the offer: All Australians – from post school to the age pension - will have access to a government subsidised training place up to their first Certificate III, through a National Training Entitlement; and Interest-free loans will be expanded in the vocational education and training system, enabling up to 60,000 students per year … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocational education & training Tagged With: ASQA, Diversity, Equity, Fees, Income contingent loans, Qualifications, TAFE

Skills reform to focus on quality & industry need

19/03/2012 By intermediatescan

With the Prime Minister set to announce a training reform package, which is said to include quality assurance measures, to take to the next Council of Australian Governments, the Victorian Government has announced its own measures to keep out so-called “dodgy” training providers. A rapid investigation team and a new star rating for training providers are being set up to expose the rogue operators Higher Education and Skills Minister Peter Hall says are undermining the education industry. The moves come amid concerns the state's open-market training sector is fuelling a rise in useless diploma courses at private providers rorting government-funded enrolments. The Australian reports … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocational education & training Tagged With: ASQA, Diversity, Equity, Fees, Income contingent loans, TAFE

The Scan 22 March 2012

Hilmer’s pitch on deregulating fees

Fees debate gathers pace

Vic TAFEs to seek backdown on cuts

The Scan 10 May 2012

Obama slow jams the news

The Scan 19 April 2012

External validation gets thumbs up

Skills for all Australians – Government statement

Skills reform to focus on quality & industry need

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