The Government has frozen international student starts for 2027, “providing stability and certainty for the sector.” Friday’s announcement followed a 25 per cent increase in visa application fees announced mid-week.
Uni NSW is the 13th university to accept an Enforceable Undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman. It is a win for 33,000 current and former UNSW staff, who will get $32m in unpaid wages, super and interest.
Almost half of Australian academics polled in a new survey reported dissatisfaction with workload and less than a third said they would recommend academia as a career to others.
The failed Job Ready Graduates (JRG) fee setting scheme for HE degrees won’t be reformed until at least 2028 according to the Federal Government’s latest timeline.
Titles can be a refuge of snobbery, but they can also be a useful way to identify our role, Merlin Crossley writes.
The definition of educational success is being redefined in VET. Course completions are no longer the key goal. Stephen Matchett takes a closer look.
The 2050 Alliance welcomes moves to advance tertiary harmonisation, while highlighting the risks of standardisation – reducing education standards to the lowest common denominator.
Researchers have identified eight categories of universities, arguing they could be used to develop more accurate models to fund teaching costs.
The tension between urgent demands for change alongside a need for space to think and act carefully presents HE leaders with an unusual challenge – to create environments to facilitate both rapid realignment and slower, quality thinking simultaneously, Adam Shoemaker writes.
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.
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