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Even when you are learning the role, you are still entitled to be paid.

My teen’s boss says she won’t be paid while she’s learning the job. Is this legal?

The owner might claim that it’s perfectly fine to offer little or no pay during a training period, but Dr Kirstin Ferguson says taking advantage of young workers doesn’t stack up.

  • Kirstin Ferguson

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The government is on a major vocational education compliance blitz.

‘Shocked’: College ordered to shut after students accused of cheating

The vocational education watchdog has been on an aggressive campaign to clean up the sector. One college says it has been wrongly targeted.

  • Daniella White
The government is cracking down on dodgy providers.

Colleges shut, thousands of students lose qualifications in fake diploma crackdown

About 17,000 students across the country have been told their qualifications will be torn up.

  • Daniella White
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will face-off in Parliament on Monday with questions over flight upgrades likely to dominate.

Building a 2025 election win: Albanese starts campaign early

The next federal poll isn’t due until May, but the prime minister has kicked off proceedings with another large education promise aimed at TAFE.

  • Shane Wright
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Ploughing the fields of history.

Just 18 out of more than 1500 people who enrolled in Victoria’s free certificate IV in plumbing in 2019 and 2020 successfully completed the program.

Victoria’s worst free TAFE completion rates revealed

Just 1 per cent of Victorians who registered for a free plumbing course in recent years successfully completed their training.

  • Broede Carmody
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These WA students started university and hated it. Where are they now?

While some strike gold and make the right decision after high school straight off the bat, others take a little longer to find their calling. 

  • Holly Thompson
Fraudulent colleges could be fined close to $1 million under new laws introduced by Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’Connor.

$1 million fines for ‘dodgy’ colleges in fresh crackdown

Legislation to be introduced on Wednesday will also weed out colleges misrepresenting themselves as prestigious institutions and void the registration of providers that have been inactive for 12 months.

  • Angus Thompson
Just 5 per cent of University of Melbourne bachelor students are from low-income backgrounds, new data shows.

More funding, places in universities’ plan to restore sector to glory days

A request to match TAFE funding and a plan to create 20,000 more places in critical fields of study will be put to the federal government as research and development investment falls to record lows.

  • Angus Thompson

Indian students rejected as Australia cracks down on ‘ghost colleges’

Data shows Australia approves far fewer student visas from India than China, despite government ministers visiting India to promote skills study.

  • Angus Thompson

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