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.
After ten days of uproar at Deakin U, Chancellor Claire Higgins yesterday cancelled ready to-go jobs cuts in the Academic and Infrastructure-Digital portfolios, “after listening to colleagues and the community.”
For the first time, UNSW ranks number one in Australia and is ranked 19 globally, up one place from last year in the latest QS World University Rankings (WUR), released this morning.
A week after Iain Martin’s immediate exit as VC at Deakin U, the wholesale restructure planned on his watch is on hold, with a re-design widely expected across campus.
“One meaningful compact ATEC must make with the nation is a willingness to actively examine institutional architecture and not just the flow of funding and policies through it,” David Lloyd says.
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