Yesterday
Overseas student boom shows signs of slowing
There are very early indications that the seemingly unstoppable growth in international students might be tapering off.
- Julie Hare
This Month
‘HR’s biggest trend’ is helping fix the skills crisis
A rising number of companies including Schneider Electric and Unilever are focusing on skills instead of job titles to fill roles.
- Euan Black
Australia’s most in-demand jobs revealed
Actuaries, tax accountants, solicitors and architects are officially in shortage, according to Jobs and Skills Australia’s annual skills priority list.
- Michael Read and Euan Black
Students not the only ones dropping out for better-paid work
Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor says low pay is a factor in apprentices failing to complete their trades training, but not the only reason.
- Andrew Tillett
Market forces in childcare have failed families: ACCC
Childcare in Australia is less affordable than almost all other comparable countries and despite government contributions being almost double the OECD average.
- Julie Hare
September
Is a skills passport a ticket to job mobility?
A national skills passport should include non-formal education to more accurately capture jobseekers’ skills, experts say.
- Euan Black
The nine things the government says it will do about jobs
The Albanese government has identified nine policy areas in its white paper on employment that it will act on immediately.
- Opinion
- University
It’s time to reshape universities for national good
Our tertiary institutions are a national asset, but collaboration with industry is a missed opportunity and should be a focus of the review now under way.
- Innes Willox
I’m a busy lawyer. How can I find time to ‘future-proof’ my career?
High-performing professionals never stop developing their skills. But career coach Edwin Trevor-Roberts says enrolling in a course is not the only way to grow.
- Euan Black
‘Exceptionally difficult’ to find workers if they can’t WFH
The freedom to work from home a few days a week has become a non-negotiable for many white-collar workers despite a recent slowdown in hiring activity.
- Euan Black
Big uni targets eroded as students vote with their feet
Education Minister Jason Clare’s ambition to double the number of people with a degree is in stark contrast to a trend of people choosing work or TAFE before university.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Skills shortage
Why being a tradie might be a better option than uni
University enrolments are declining as potential students opt for trades in a heated labour market that is delivering big salaries – without student debt.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Employment
Why a job can be a fast track into poverty
Low-value jobs and mutual obligation requirements for young people on the dole often perversely make them less employable, not more.
- Julie Hare
Sophie was going to be a singer, instead she’s digging up rocks
Students like Sophie Allen are choosing degrees based on the contribution they can make to slowing global warming.
- Julie Hare
International student numbers hit a record, proving unis wrong
One in every 40 people in Australia is on a student or graduate visa. That’s helping with skill shortages but not with the rental crisis.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Education
Private colleges the only way to get to O’Kane’s big target
The universities accord holds at its core a doubling of the number of university students by 2050. The only way to get there is to embrace the private sector.
- Peter Hendy
August
- Exclusive
- Hiring & firing
Tech workers take $20,000-plus pay cuts as fired talent floods market
Salaries exploded during the pandemic as cashed up companies threw money at skilled workers, but recruiters and CEOs say job cuts have made the job market tougher.
- Tess Bennett
Outgoing ANU boss predicts greater role for private colleges
A 20-year horizon on higher education will be very different from today, says Brian Schmidt, who revealed his role behind Christopher Pyne’s “fixer” moment.
- Julie Hare
Fix education and training to boost productivity: BCA
Australia’s education system is a major drag on productivity, says the BCA, but it doesn’t need to be.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- University
Why these three big ideas will get more kids into university
A more accessible higher education ecosystem can boost Australia’s economic performance.
- Belinda Tynan and William Gort
