
JRG Fix Nixed: New Plan Needed
The Greens Bill to abolish the Job Ready Graduate funding model has been nixed by Government-Coalition members of a Senate committee – a new solution is required

The Greens Bill to abolish the Job Ready Graduate funding model has been nixed by Government-Coalition members of a Senate committee – a new solution is required

Five Australian universities have increased their revenue by more than $5 billion collectively over the past three years – but the balance sheets of some don’t look as healthy as they should.

The concentration of power of the new Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) is unprecedented and shifts HE and the tertiary system towards “instrumentalism, Craig Fowler argues.

Harmonisation is critical if the goals of the Accord are to be achieved, RMIT VC Alec Cameron writes.

Australia is about to switch over to its long-awaited new HE student funding model, with legislation embedding Needs-Based and Managed Growth funding introduced to Parliament yesterday.

PG students call for greater recognition of their contribution to rankings success.


Griffith Vice-Chancellor Professor Carolyn Evans describes the importance of pursuing sustainability rankings, and what they mean for the university.

Australian universities have dominated the top echelons of this year’s THE Sustainability Impact Ratings, which showcase how universities are working towards addressing the United Nations’ sustainable development agenda.

Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to Australian universities and the way it is used across the sector needs to be managed carefully, according to HE union and employer representatives speaking yesterday.

A fixation on whether students used AI is diverting attention from more important issues, allowing more significant issues to go past unexamined.

Universities must change the way they lead in response to seismic changes in their operating environment and must take the fight up to the Government to oppose bad policy, Universities Australia Chief Executive Officer Luke Sheehy will say today.

Universities will need to change their governance, accountability and reporting next year in order to keep receiving disability support funding.

Precision matters – opening up new opportunities, as well as fresh challenges, Merlin Crossley writes.

University councils appear to be losing power, Stephen Matchett writes.

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