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Professor Leo Goedegebuure
Professorial Fellow, Centre of the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Honorary, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning; University of Melbourne
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Education
Skills education needs action, not more talk
About a quarter of Australians are in vocational education but the current system is flawed and selling us short at a critical time. Here’s how to fix it
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Education
Time to create universities of applied sciences?
A new vision for Australia’s public TAFEs could deliver the skills and applied research linked to industry and business urgently needed to transition the economy
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Education
Narrow training sells students short
The crisis in Australia’s training sector means TAFEs need to develop their own courses tailored to an unpredictable future
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Business & Economics
Knowing the value, but not the cost
There has been plenty of talk about how much governments and students should pay for a degree, but the first task is to actually cost it