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Reviewing skills and knowledge: will the digital age mean a break with the past?

Reviewing skills and knowledge: will the digital age mean a break with the past?

By Francesca Beddie Technological change is forever challenging traditional approaches to education and training. Nevertheless, my review of a collection of landmark reports on vocational education and training published since the 1960s and collated in the VOCED plus database shows that some of the solutions remain the same: give students a strong secondary education so […]
Repackaging History for Policy Purposes

Repackaging History for Policy Purposes

by Francesca Beddie
Diversity and Excellence: Prompts from the History of the Tertiary Education Sector

Diversity and Excellence: Prompts from the History of the Tertiary Education Sector

by Francesca Beddie
TERTIARY EDUCATION POLICY

TERTIARY EDUCATION POLICY

In our latest policy brief, *Francesca Beddie advises Ministers Tehan and Cash about future directions for tertiary education policy.   Ministers Tehan and Cash PURPOSE This paper puts forward for your consideration during the summer recess some of the big questions confronting the tertiary education system. BACKGROUND Policy-makers in the early 1960s were confronted by […]
Landmarks in the governance and policy frameworks of Australian VET

Landmarks in the governance and policy frameworks of Australian VET

By Francesca Beddie In Landmarks in the governance and policy frameworks of Australian VET, Robin Ryan, retired adjunct academic, Flinders University, surveys a set of landmark policy documents on vocational education and training (VET). He charts the history of the systems of governance, institutional frameworks and processes of policy formulation. This exercise uncovers some recurring […]