UA chief Luke Sheehy proposes the major university lobbies combine “in a whole-of-sector response” to the Australian Tertiary Education Commission legislation
Universities can rebuild the public’s trust if they fix the cultural causes behind failures and strengthen how leaders manage risk and make decisions.
Research on what works in AI assessment design is “fragmented and difficult to navigate,” Thomas Corbin (Deakin U) and a compendium of colleagues have warned. They propose priorities for research, because they are needed, and now.
“The United States faces a strategic inflection point” in global collaboration, according to data analytics provider Clarivate.
At the heart of the Accord, there are two goals that sit uncomfortably together: growing enrolments and improving higher education quality.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
A week after announcing research staff cuts, CSIRO sets out its priorities – and the numbers of people who will pay for them.
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.
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