
What the Greens Will Want To Pass ATEC
Will the Greens tie a cut to the top tier of JRG to the ATEC Bill to try to force the Government’s hand on fees?

Will the Greens tie a cut to the top tier of JRG to the ATEC Bill to try to force the Government’s hand on fees?


Universities will, more generally, be pushed out of introductory basic skills courses by cheaper online platforms, writes Merlin Crossley – but they can focus on deep learning.

The Job Ready Graduates scheme has now been implemented by the Albanese Government for more than twice the time that it was used by the Morrison Government. Craig Fowler makes a case for a better model.

Any ATEC is better than no ATEC at all, appears to be the latest viewpoint of HE leaders.


A survey of more than 11,500 staff across Australia’s 42 universities has found that all universities present high or very high psychosocial risks, unless you are in senior management, where risks appear lower.

A coalition of Vice-Chancellors has sued for terms following the House of Representatives passing the ATEC legislation on Tuesday and ahead of tomorrow’s Senate committee hearing to consider it.

Craig Fowler looks at the consequences for the Government of retaining the failed Job Ready Graduates (JRG) funding model and the challenge ahead to build a case for an alternative.

“After many frustrating years of higher education reform, the provision of policy and funding certainty for the sector is very near, but not certain,” Newcastle U Vice-Chancellor Alex Zelinsky writes, calling for the establishment of ATEC.

OES have moved to sponsor the Universities Without Walls Symposium

Appointments and Achievements in Australian HE this week.

After months of HE sector-wide criticism of legislation to create the regulator, Charles Sturt University (CSU) Vice-Chancellor Renée Leon backed it Tuesday.

Part 2 of Sean Brawley’s potted history of university governance in Australia and beyond.

Even when there is “sufficient coverage” in defence capability research – as per AUKUS – access to funding for academics and industry is “not always straightforward, visibility is scarce and fragmentation systemic.”

When the Senate committee inquiry into the ATEC founding legislation takes evidence on Friday, it will not be an endorse-a-thon; at least if the Liberals have anything to do with it.
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