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Looking Beyond the Headlines: Why Australia Needs a Collective Focus on Long-Term Unemployment John Burn-Murdoch’s recent Financial Times analysis (shared on Bluesky last week) highlights an increasingly hidden challenge: while headline rates for people who are not in education or employment (NEET) are stable or improving in the UK and US, the subgroup of young adults who are not working, not studying, not seeking work, and not parenting...
Australia’s 15 new private higher education providers As 2025 draws towards a close and with TEQSA’s annual report for 2024-25 having recently been released, it is interesting to reflect on the changes which have happened in the last two years in the Australian higher education sector. The sector is undergoing a period of significant change. Some of that change is deliberate – arising from the government’s Universities Accord Panel process...
Higher education 2024: which students enrolled where? In the last fortnight we have seen the release of the full student datasets for higher education and VET. In two updates I have looked at a key cohort in each sector. In the higher education sector I have chosen to focus on domestic commencing students – as the government prepares to make changes to attract more new students into higher...
VET 2024: which students enrolled where? In the last fortnight we have seen the release of the full student datasets for higher education and VET. In two updates I have looked at a key cohort in each sector. In my first report on the higher education sector I chose to focus on domestic commencing students – as the government prepares to make changes to attract more new students...
How well are ASQA’s efforts to improve integrity in the VET sector working out? Not that well at the moment – based on the evidence. When you look at where ASQA has been focussing its attention in the last 18 months it would be fair to say that the integrity issues identified in the Nixon Review appear largely unaddressed (at least in terms of any public actions) and...
