The missing link in Australian tertiary education: short-cycle higher education
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Moodie, Gavin
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2003
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The diploma and advanced diploma have long been contested territory in Australian sectoral turf wars. The current settlement allows vocational education and training and higher education to offer their own versions of diplomas and advanced diplomas. This and Australia's unusually deep organisational separation of vocational education and training and higher education has made it difficult for governments to adopt an integrated tertiary education policy and it has restricted vet's role. By comparing arrangements for the highest sub baccalaureate qualifications in North America and the UK, known generically as short-cycle ...
View more >The diploma and advanced diploma have long been contested territory in Australian sectoral turf wars. The current settlement allows vocational education and training and higher education to offer their own versions of diplomas and advanced diplomas. This and Australia's unusually deep organisational separation of vocational education and training and higher education has made it difficult for governments to adopt an integrated tertiary education policy and it has restricted vet's role. By comparing arrangements for the highest sub baccalaureate qualifications in North America and the UK, known generically as short-cycle higher education, the paper develops some new options for Australia. The paper concludes by arguing that Australia should follow the North America and UK examples and decouple the institutional and programmatic designations of the sectors to allow vet institutes to offer unambiguously higher education programs.
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View more >The diploma and advanced diploma have long been contested territory in Australian sectoral turf wars. The current settlement allows vocational education and training and higher education to offer their own versions of diplomas and advanced diplomas. This and Australia's unusually deep organisational separation of vocational education and training and higher education has made it difficult for governments to adopt an integrated tertiary education policy and it has restricted vet's role. By comparing arrangements for the highest sub baccalaureate qualifications in North America and the UK, known generically as short-cycle higher education, the paper develops some new options for Australia. The paper concludes by arguing that Australia should follow the North America and UK examples and decouple the institutional and programmatic designations of the sectors to allow vet institutes to offer unambiguously higher education programs.
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Journal Title
International Journal of Training Research
Volume
1
Issue
1
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© 2003 AVETRA. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper.
Subject
Education
Economics
Studies in Human Society