{"id":14897,"date":"2016-01-13T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/?p=14897"},"modified":"2016-01-13T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T02:29:26","slug":"higher-educations-30-most-influential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/?p=14897","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education&#8217;s 30 Most Influential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Australian <\/em>has named the thirty most influential educators in Australia this year. Martin Riordan, CEO of AustCham Beijing member TAFE Directors Australia, has been included on the list at number 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">25. MARTIN RIORDAN<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"x_Picture_x0020_4\" src=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/owa\/service.svc\/s\/GetFileAttachment?id=AAMkADBhOWEzZTMxLWUxMjItNDJmZi1hNmQwLWU5N2JkOTNiMjhhMwBGAAAAAADvkgPp4sPNTpPN6KkB41spBwBvC5nYr4%2FgQqmz8VGULSdOAAAAAAEMAABvC5nYr4%2FgQqmz8VGULSdOAAAqOxPDAAABEgAQAMkOk%2BaxN9FNrjYPbH1HIY0%3D&amp;X-OWA-CANARY=ZkE1ErvlTkC92GgMBUHRYwDmKwHBG9MY3STkPYk-EG8iej_nDhc2U7ZiOwBKClUZBpignQ6Rlts.\" alt=\"http:\/\/cdn.newsapi.com.au\/image\/v1\/2b78fa3250a418509f577c28ea96ffc8\" width=\"316\" height=\"421\" data-custom=\"AAMkADBhOWEzZTMxLWUxMjItNDJmZi1hNmQwLWU5N2JkOTNiMjhhMwBGAAAAAADvkgPp4sPNTpPN6KkB41spBwBvC5nYr4%2FgQqmz8VGULSdOAAAAAAEMAABvC5nYr4%2FgQqmz8VGULSdOAAAqOxPDAAABEgAQAMkOk%2BaxN9FNrjYPbH1HIY0%3D\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Not every lobby group boss takes the chance to get all scholarly, heading overseas for a month or three to check out how things are done on the other side of the planet. Martin Riordan has bagged both a Fulbright and a PM\u2019s Postgraduate Asia Scholarship in recent years. It\u2019s providing a big picture perspective that is standing TAFE Directors Australia \u2014 where Riordan is CEO \u2014 in good stead as it enjoys an increasing media profile, albeit thanks to the rolling disaster engulfing vocational education. Riordan has become a go-to commentator as his analyses of the ill-thought attempts to promote VET \u2014 particularly the appallingly wasteful VET Fee-Help scheme \u2014 spelling out what Australia risks losing if it continues in this vein. Profile is unfamiliar territory for TAFEs, and hopefully they\u2019ll manage to hang on to it if and when VET finds itself on firmer footing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/special-features\/higher-education-30-most-influential-2016\/news-story\/32518529239a8924d6da4f29919ca349\">Click here<\/a> for the complete list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian has named the thirty most influential educators in Australia this year. Martin Riordan, CEO of AustCham Beijing member TAFE Directors Australia, has been included on the list at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14912,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14897\/revisions\/14912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}