This Month
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
Commissions banned, students monitored under visa fraud crackdown
The government says the “roots and loopholes” plaguing the visa system will be over after a raft of reforms and changes this week.
- Julie Hare
For $27k you too can become an analyst with Macquarie
Why go to university when you can learn the ins and outs of financial markets in just six months?
- Julie Hare
September
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
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
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Victorian TAFEs push for single employer status
The institutes’ teachers are hoping the Fair Work Commission will pave the way for them to bargain collectively.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Tony Sheldon
Taxpayer bill for Grill’d ‘hamburger university’ hits $28.3m
The handouts helped boost the national burger chain’s pre-tax profit to $15.8 million even as its boss said profits were being “decimated”.
- Ronald Mizen
August
Crackdown looms on rogue students, colleges
The federal government has stepped in to ward off growing cases of rorting and corruption in the student visa system.
- 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
The data that signals ‘students’ are coming for work, not uni
Universities are bleeding money as thousands of international students enrol in dodgy colleges as a means of accessing paid work.
- Julie Hare
July
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Australia can’t face the 21st century with obsolete workplaces
The climate transition and AUKUS submarines will put a huge premium on the workplace flexibility that this government has now opted out of.
- Michael Angwin
May
Women to benefit most from new student loans
A Coalition-era policy that gave apprentices loans to pay for everyday necessities will be extended to students in occupations of the greatest skill shortage.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
Adventus raises $20m, as super-agents attract inquiry’s attention
Online student recruitment firm Adventus is going from strength to strength, but the business model of aggregation sites is not to a federal inquiry’s liking.
- Julie Hare
‘Greedy’ unis leave grads with debt, low-value degrees: former VC
Instead of increasing social mobility, the vast growth in degrees has had precisely the opposite effect, a new paper by Professor Steven Schwartz argues.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Mergers & acquisitions
Queensland ‘unicorn’ buys German start-up star in biggest deal yet
Go1 has defied the tech wreck, raising capital at a huge $3b valuation to fund a $100m acquisition of Blinkist, a German start-up that summarises non-fiction books.
- Paul Smith
April
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: TAFE role in higher education
The tertiary education sector; push towards renewables; Australia’s missing export champions; Rear Window on Nathan Tinkler and Qantas; Westpac services; Morrison, Dutton and the Liberals.
- Exclusive
- International students
WA government complicit in student visa rorts, Labor MP claims
A federal Labor MP has lashed the West Australian government for paying recruitment bonuses to education agents.
- Julie Hare
Go16 dreams to be the ‘Ivy League’ for Australian vocational colleges
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, why is the Group of Eight so het up about the Group of Sixteen?
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Enterprise IT
TechnologyOne makes a play for 10-year TAFE NSW contract
TechnologyOne is offering TAFE NSW a fixed priced contract of $145m to abandon its long-running Oracle project.
- Tess Bennett
