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Politics Podcast: Bill Ferris on Australia’s innovation mission
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Innovation and Science Australia chair Bill Ferris launched a report this week setting out a plan that seeks to put Australia into the top tier of innovation nations by 2030.
We take a closer look at some of the common claims made this year to see if there is any truth to them.
Gonski funding was scrapped and the vocational education sector got a new student loan system. Here’s what else happened in education this year…
While spending has grown for preschools, schools and universities, vocational education misses out.
Vocational Education and Training helps low school achievers up skill and avoid disadvantage in the workplace.
The government is right to cut back on funding certain VET courses that have low-enrolment rates and are unlikely to lead to work.
Diplomas of circus arts, fraud control, explosive ordinance manufacture, and sound and vibration therapy are among 478 courses that will be excluded from government funding.
A tussle between Attorney-General George Brandis and Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson intensified this week, and the outlook for their continued working relationship looks poor.
A crackdown on the widely rorted vocational education and training student loan program aims to reduce outstanding HELP debt.
An independent authority should control the tertiary funding system in Australia in order to best implement policy objectives.
New research shows private VET providers are ill-equipped to tackle the learning needs of vulnerable young people, who are increasingly being enrolled onto these training courses.
Working life is becoming more fluid, if not precarious. We need to look at how our education systems are preparing young people for a changing workplace.
Labor’s policy essentially creates a new layer of tertiary education that would involve universities and TAFE Institutes working together to deliver associate degrees and advanced diplomas.
Loan caps are only a partial solution to a much bigger problem – declining public investment in VET and a dysfunctional VET financing system, which neither side of politics has been willing to address.
While Labor’s policy proposals for schools are all mapped out, the Coalition has yet to specify its plans for education.
If we’re serious about closing the gap in Indigenous education, our new research shows the value of building better bridges into universities and vocational education.
A leaked paper suggests that the federal government should take over funding VET courses. But it’s a path we should tread with great caution.
The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.
Tightening regulation will contain the damage but this alone will not address the deeper problems in vocational education.
Top contributors
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Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow in Youth, Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Honorary Fellow in Education Policy, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Policy Analyst, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Education Lecturer and Researcher, Monash University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
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Senior Research Fellow, specialising in big data, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Professor of Policy and Society, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Fellow, Sociology