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Will ATEC be Jason Clare’s Plaything?
4 December, 2025
With the ATEC Bill introduced to Parliament last week, sector analysts have been scrutinising how the new regulator will work and who will control it.
What O’Kane will do next
4 December, 2025
Mary O’Kane is incoming chancellor of the University of Queensland. She will replace Peter Varghese when he steps down after a decade in July 2026.
Issues at home demand attention, as well as those on the 2026 horizon
30 November, 2025
Only 15% of respondents to the Future Campus Tertiary Education survey thought the Accord’s primary target of four in five workers having a tertiary qualification by 2050 was likely to be met.
Universities Required to Bow to ATEC Overlords
27 November, 2025
Legislation to establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission before Parliament will empower ATEC to not only oversight and regulate, but also to set a university’s business plan through the compact process if it chooses to do so.
Butter Chicken, HE and the Danger of Solving the Wrong Problem
27 November, 2025
At the heart of higher education … It is about the student. If we fail to start with their needs, values, and aspirations, everything else is decoration.
QUT failed to pay its people properly
26 November, 2025
QUT has had to accept an enforceable undertaking as part of penalties for underpaying 433 continuing/casual staff (it is checking for more). They are owed amounts ranging from $10 to $78,000.
CSIRO cuts to grow
25 November, 2025
A week after announcing research staff cuts, CSIRO sets out its priorities – and the numbers of people who will pay for them.
Two systems, Divergent Paths: UK vs Aust reforms
25 November, 2025
Australia and the UK are grappling with like challenges: skills shortages, equity gaps, research impact, regional reach and lifelong learning. Unlike the HE Accord, the Post-16 ‘white paper’ is conceptually of immense breadth, complexity and integration; starkly different to Australia’s more separated policy approaches.
VET attrition: it’s better than it looks (at least when it is visible)
25 November, 2025
VET completion rates for 2020 starters were 49% by last year
Students work out their own AI ethics
23 November, 2025
Among all the angsting that students will used artificial intelligence destroy the process of learning, Margaret Bearman (Deakin U) and colleagues used a novel approach – they asked 79 of them, in 20 online focus groups.
Unis dig in to control research publishing costs
23 November, 2025
A team representing university libraries has suspended negotiations with for-profit journal giant Elsevier on subscription costs and community access to its content.
O’Kane’s farewell address: all the work she will not be around to do
23 November, 2025
Mary O’Kane had a “nagging wish” for a unifying theory of higher education to be the basis of the Universities Accord to “lead us to a sector which is more appreciated by the community at large.”
HE approaches 2026 inflection point: Skrbis
21 November, 2025
After decades of theoretical discussions about technologies or businesses that could threaten higher education, Australian universities are approaching a critical inflection point, ACU Vice-Chancellor Zlatko Skrbis has said.