Educational Leadership

UNSW spent $38 million on consultants in 2022, while the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland each paid out more than $37 million.

One of Australia's most prestigious universities offers cash grants of $7,500 to help Chinese students get around the coronavirus travel ban and resume their studies.

A student from every Victorian secondary school will soon be offered a scholarship to study at the University of Melbourne

Hidden in the detail of the latest higher education reform package, there are talks of creating teaching-only universities.

Education doyen Glyn Davis says the sector needs a radical rethink to prepare for a generation who think a university degree is a waste of time.

How can Australia's teaching profession be best developed is the central question of this podcast, hosted by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.

It has become “sadly fashionable” to assume students will take out loans to pay higher education fees, but one university head admits he wouldn’t have paid the same price.

Melbourne University's arts faculty was so "toxic" that former vice-chancellor Glyn Davis warned candidates for the department's top job would be turned off if they found out how bad it was, according to damning allegations made by one of its top academics.

Undergraduate students must now pass an online course about sexual consent if they want to enrol at the prestigious University of Melbourne. 

University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis looks at the impact of digital technology on education in his new book The Australian Idea of a University.

The third transformation of Glyn Davis’ imperium at the University of Melbourne is taking shape, with the release of recommendations for a new approach to teaching. It follows the transformation of courses through the Melbourne model and the remake of administration via the Business Improvement Programme.

The Flexible Academic Programming project started in February 2016 (CMM February 24 2016) and now project coordinator PVC Gregor Kennedy reports 12 recommendations to the university community:

1 cut lectures to 45% of undergraduate contact time by 2020.

2. “review and renew” u/g subjects with 300 plus enrolments “to provide students with active, interactive and engaging learning environments”

3. for subjects with 500 or more students use video instead of lectures to cover “foundational concepts

4. more diverse approaches to assessment, starting in first year subjects.

Young Liberals at one of Australia's most prestigious universities have been accused of misogyny and misconduct during a student election.