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What counts as ‘normal’ on campuses has changed drastically after Covid lockdowns, for students and staff alike
The new version of the Australian Curriculum should be approved for use by 2022. With the ongoing controversy around the document, ministers must remember three crucial things.
RMIT University will pay almost 4000 casual staff an estimated $10 million in back-pay making it the fourth Victorian university to be hit by wage theft claims.
The regional university will cut the number of academic schools it has from six to three as a decline in demand forces it to restructure its operations.
The University of NSW has launched a review of wide-ranging allegations surrounding several taxpayer-funded studies into ageing from scientists at Australian and overseas universities.
Revenue fell by more than $2 billion in 2020 – less than feared – but universities are increasingly vulnerable to worsening conditions, with losses of international students accelerating.
A report predicts universities will be forced to cut at least half of their non-research staff and specialise or risk closure as higher education revenue contracts in the next decade.
Historically, research has been imposed upon Indigenous people, instead of conducted with them. This is an exploration of more collaborative ways to research when working with Indigenous communities.
Regional universities across Australia have experienced a 40 per cent drop overall in international students, while the country’s more prestigious university’s saw a drop of only 1 per cent.
Politically and socially, Australia is fast expanding its engagement with India and her neighbours. Universities, in contrast, have wound back their commitment to South Asian studies.
The stories shared over the last few days by distraught academics have been utterly awful.
Sydney University’s choice of Mark Scott as vice-chancellor is bold. But it could be exactly what the sector needs
The architect of Australia’s student loan system strongly supports its extension to the vocational education sector, saying it will improve access for poorer students who can’t afford to pay up-front fees.
Australian National University economics professor Bruce Chapman, who helped designed the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) in 1989, said it should be extended to vocational training certificate three and four courses, as recommended by the Australian Productivity Commission this year. Certificate three and four qualifications include hairdressing, massage therapy, aged care and hospitality.
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Academics are blocking an attempt by the University of NSW management to publish information about how satisfied students are with their courses, saying it would break a promise not to identify academics and create the potential for courses and teachers to be ranked.
But the university argues students’ opinions about their experience should be given greater emphasis, and that they should be allowed to find out how fellow students feel about the quality of a course and the relevance of its content.
Labor is promising to make TAFE free for critical jobs across a range of sectors, as well as funding more university places if it wins the next election.
The Morrison government is pushing for universities to shift focus to commercialising their research, announcing $242.7 million for a yet-to-be-selected small group of “trailblazer” universities
Chrissy teaches one-on-one music lessons at three Victorian state schools and wants her role deemed "essential" like other teaching positions so she can return to onsite work.
A new report estimates almost 40 thousand university jobs, or one fifth of the sector, have been lost in the 12 months until May.
A crisis of sustainability is building up as universities continue to drift towards a more privatised system. It’s time we started looking at alternative options.
The sameness of the way in which universities present themselves is based on a shared view of what they think stakeholders want. Behind the official facade it’s more like ‘organised anarchy’.
The size of the financial crisis facing Australian universities is not yet known and will take years to work its way through the system.
The Job-Ready Graduates policy aims to remove 'the misalignment between the cost of teaching a degree and the revenue that a university receives to teach it'. But new research challenges its costings.
Schools that educate the most challenging students say COVID-19 has undone a year’s progress and that some kids have become so disengaged they might never return.
Victorian universities slashed staff last year in anticipation of long-term decline in international student revenue, with insecure workers taking the worst hit.
Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Chanel Contos and features editor Lucy Clark about the widespread allegations of sexual assault in Australian schools and the need to tackle rape culture among young men
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