This Month
The group saying no to uni: white, male, and would rather be a tradie
The Albanese government wants to get more kids into universities, but a new study on apprentices shows there is a clear cohort with no interest in a degree.
- Julie Hare
Graduates reap rewards from booming jobs market
Students who graduated in 2019 have benefited hugely from historically low unemployment rates and massive skill shortages across the economy.
- Julie Hare
Review to hammer out apprenticeship problem
Only half of all apprentices complete their training, despite billions in funding going into ensuring they do. A new review is looking for a solution.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Skills
Improve vocational training for uni students, says skills boss
New Jobs and Skills Australia commissioner Barney Glover has more than a few ideas about how to lift productivity.
- Julie Hare
Foreign students are leaving Australia in droves after visa crackdown
Net migration is still up, but signs are strong that government policy is taking a toll on international students.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Postgrad
The long list of students’ gripes at top law school
From resitting exams that were ‘compromised’ to getting assessments they’d already done for practice, some students are furious about alleged mismanagement at Melbourne Law School.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University
‘Mess up after mess up’: Top law school earns big fail from students
Melbourne Law School is the highest ranked and most prestigious in Australia. But its students say their education is a shambles.
- Julie Hare
If universities make us so clever why aren’t we richer?
Too often they generate ideas that no one knows how to use.
Science supports rote learning in schools: report
A push to return classrooms to explicit instruction, phonics and rote learning is based on the science of learning.
- Julie Hare
Big recruiters stay ahead as grads shop around for best offers
Consultancies remain the big employer of graduates, whose preferences post-pandemic are favouring hybrid work roles.
- Julie Hare
Law firms get innovative in talent search
Competition for top grads is fierce, while pathways to law are widening.
- Anders Furze
Skill needs of professions underpins grad intake
Early-career recruitment is a key workforce strategy for accounting and professional services firms.
- Anders Furze
Applying with their ears pinned back
Faced with a cost-of-living crisis, and HECS debt-heavy, graduates are hunting far and wide for the right career opportunity.
- Julie Hare
One in three Aussie kids can’t read this headline: Grattan
Schools need to transform the way they teach reading so that fewer children get left behind, think tank report says.
- Julie Hare
Western Sydney Uni boss to head national skills body
Barney Glover will not have time to take a breath as he moves to his new job as head of the government’s skills and jobs agency.
- Julie Hare
Unis cancelling full-fee international students
The Albanese government’s crackdown on visas has prompted some universities to cancel enrolment offers, particularly for students from India and Nepal.
- Julie Hare
Half of all kids attend school regularly. Parents are to blame
Lax school attendance is “a national issue” that should be taken with greater seriousness by families, the head of an independent education evidence body warns.
- Julie Hare
Disruptive kids are on the rise in Australia’s classrooms
But a Senate report into disruptive classroom behaviour has only one recommendation - to create another inquiry into the matter.
- Julie Hare
WFH may be adding to the school attendance crisis
Some students are asking their parents: ‘If you don’t have to go to work, why do I have to go to school?’ One successful principal says classroom culture is the answer.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
The rate of teens finishing year 12 is falling
The federal government is increasingly picking up the bill for schools as states and territories fail to meet funding agreements.
- Julie Hare
