On Saturday Fairfax revealed federal Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans wrote to his Victorian counterpart, Peter Hall, asking him to explain how those cuts did not threaten national reforms agreed to at the COAG meeting in April. At that meeting...

AS the Baillieu Government attempts to juggle its books, TAFE courses in Circus Arts are getting a bigger subsidy than business and hospitality. Skills Minister Peter Hall has been performing a political high-wire act following cuts to TAFE announced in...

Australia follows the Victorian government cutting funding to about 80 per cent of publicly funded courses, which the sector warns will lead to classes closing and jobs being lost. On Saturday Fairfax revealed federal Tertiary Education Minister Chris...

TAFE directors this week are briefing state skills minister Peter Hall and his bureaucrats on the full extent of expected job losses and course cuts as the sector aims to maintain pressure on the State to pull back from planned budget cuts that the...

Dashon Burton of New Haven, Conn. , won first prize in the Seventh Biennial Bach Vocal Competition for Young American Singers, co-sponsored by the American Bach Society and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. The finals were held May 6 in Peter Hall at...

Federal Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans has called on his state counterpart, Peter Hall, to provide urgent assurances about Victoria's TAFE cuts and whether they were a threat to training standards. The Victorian government announced on May 1...