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One Victorian university has been named among the world’s top 20, but experts warn a limit on international students could hinder our progress.
A new taskforce to police how universities are run will be pitched to state education ministers, as figures reveal the extent of corporatisation of university councils.
We live amid the wreckage of formerly treasured institutions and services, despoiled by decades of marketisation and neglect
Overhanging the whole accord debate is the question of increasing public funding for universities and academic research in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.
Casual and sessional workers tell their stories of being underpaid and exploited by some of Australia’s most respected and prestigious institutions.
The proposed new university would be called Adelaide University and open in 2026, with the aim of becoming Australia’s biggest university for domestic students.
Universities have seen a decade of cuts and unfavourable policies under the Coalition government. Here’s what the major parties should be promising now.
The university experience in 2022 will not be the same as before the pandemic. However, as many universities across Australia are starting the first week of the semester, we are cautiously optimistic.
What counts as ‘normal’ on campuses has changed drastically after Covid lockdowns, for students and staff alike
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.
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 size of the financial crisis facing Australian universities is not yet known and will take years to work its way through the system.
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The institution was the first foreign university to be granted a licence to explore opening in the authoritarian kingdom.
Politicians talk about how they want to see more Indigenous graduates but we don’t often hear from Indigenous students about their experiences. New research talks to four young Indigenous men.
There is increasing alarm over the lack of progress around sexual harassment and assault on Australian university campuses. Much of the focus so far has been on students but staff are also at risk.
Consultants are now deployed at enormous expense to help universities corporatise their operations. Young students have never paid so much for so little.
Exclusive: Cost-cutting, casualisation and ‘ridiculous’ teaching loads are taking a toll on tertiary institutions – and some academics are fighting back
Education Minister Jason Clare has released the terms of reference for the broadest review of higher education in Australia since 2008.
Online learning is not a new phenomenon that had just been discovered in March 2020, it has been developing very strongly for 20+ years. What is new is that we are now realising that what was conceived as being good online learning pedagogy is being challenged by many of the newer student-centred approaches that have evolved in learning and teaching. Not the least because the technologies now allow us to do way more in a more synchronous way, allowing students to work more collaboratively with others. Or maybe it’s more that we have rediscovered some activities that were harder to achieve in the past. Either way, what has also changed in higher education is the emphasis on the student and how providing them with a greater level of agency in their learning presents more traditional educators with new challenges. This paper presents some options for those looking to understand and meet those challenges head on.
Asylum seekers in Australia who arrived by boat mainly hold temporary visas. If they want to attend university, they have to pay international fees.
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.
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.
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.
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