Australia’s earlier experience with tertiary education commissions suggests that their durability will depend as much on how governments choose to live with the institution as it will on autonomy and architecture.
If you are ready to contemplate a future where institutional agility, student and staff wellbeing, and better outcomes could be unlocked through new approaches to HE, it’s time to join the Future Campus one day University Without Walls symposium on 23 February.
Universities have grown enrolments with a reliance on boosting international numbers, but with the Government’s limits on international enrolment numbers as well as global uncertainty, growth is going to have to refocus on home.
Appointments and achievements in Australian HE this week.
Front-line public service agencies are a vast research resource, but problems arise when officialdom wants to censor what independent researchers find.
OPINION A frontier AI lab proposes a cross‑border project. One collaborator sits in a flagged jurisdiction; another has defence funding. Your research office raises export‑control issues; the faculty worries about academic freedom; the funder wants new attestations. Everyone is trying to do the right thing – and the lines
The University of Melbourne has a new plan, Resilience
Budget changes in the Mid-Year Economic Forecast often get little attention, what with them being released just before the Summer holidays.
The National Tertiary Education Union warns the proposed regulator “is intended to act in accordance with government policy priorities and with reference to the Department of Education.”
Universities have condemned legislation to create the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC), saying the new sector regulator will lack independence and risks taking the sector backwards.
After years campaigning against antisemitism on campus, Shadow Education Minister Julian Leeser has pulled no punches in again calling for an end to antisemitism in Parliament this week.
Across the higher education sector, a critical conversation is unfolding: how do we prepare graduates for a world where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is embedded in professional life?
Universities and HE experts suggest a range of approaches to halt ATEC’s proposed takeover of the tertiary system.
The UNSW underpayments saga finally drew to a close on Christmas Eve.
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