
All Is Not Fine in ATEC’s World
With no fund to support changes to university missions and no capacity to issue fines, ATEC’s financial levers to reshape the higher education system are surprisingly few,

With no fund to support changes to university missions and no capacity to issue fines, ATEC’s financial levers to reshape the higher education system are surprisingly few,

In an age of AI, climate adaptation and accelerating change, engineering education must return to first principles.

ATEC Commissioner Stephen Duckett has posted a progress report on developing a new costing model for university teaching.

Bills are the real barrier to participation in HE – and impacting the Accord’s underserved demographics more harshly than others, Richard Blythe writes.


Universities acknowledged this week that they had failed to keep Jewish staff and students safe on campus, but two institutions revealed how operational planning had reduced the impact of protest encampments on their campuses.

Three categories of new HE Threshold Standards are now in force.

The roles of the majority of staff in Australian universities are stuck in an outdated system of pay and job descriptions that need a rapid overhaul, workplace expert Liz Baré has told a Future Campus conference.


Student evaluation surveys are having a negative impact on academic wellbeing and stress levels, according to new research.

10 Questions Every Governing Council Should Ask Before Summer

New analysis reveals why unis have allocated CSP’s to postgraduate coursework programs.

Australian universities will have to adopt definitions of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and comply with new reporting obligations relating to governance.

“When university revenue is not effectively spent, it is students that primarily suffer – both directly, in terms of less effective services and education experience, and indirectly, in terms of squandering the savings and the loans that they are contributing,” Tim Winkler writes.

A generation back, universities saw off an attempt to join up skills training and higher education. This time it won’t be as easy.

As ATEC works on cost and pricing for teaching, two researchers have already crunched the data for 189,811 unit-level records to identify what can drive expenditure across different types of present and possible providers.
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