VET completion rates for 2020 starters were 49% by last year
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.
A team representing university libraries has suspended negotiations with for-profit journal giant Elsevier on subscription costs and community access to its content.
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.”
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.
TEQSA has done a good job in ensuring that the quality of the sector is maintained and Australia’s reputation is not put in danger, but it is perplexing that we keep emphasising risks and adding more bumper bars, seat belts, indicator lights, GPS systems, and airbags, to the car, when the actual problem is that several universities have run out of petrol.
Jason Clare’s TEQSA speech made his agenda for early 2026 quite clear.
Insights from Jason Clare’s TEQSA speech this week.
Details about the 26 to watch in ’26 webinar coming on 1 December.
Analysis of news articles in Australia this year compared to a decade provide a potential glimpse into the depths of public dissatisfaction with the university sector.
New ranking shows changes in interdisciplinary research.
Although most Australian universities improved their year-on-year scores in the latest QS Sustainability Rankings, the majority of universities lost ground in the index.
Although Australian universities are still highly ranked in ShanghaiRanking’s global subject index, there are indications that Australia’s research endeavours are not having the same growth (both in volume and quality) and impact it had a few years ago.
Visibility and voice are critical tools for staff at a time of change – but staff at the academic coalface are too infrequently resourced, empowered or trained to engage critical audiences effectively.
CSIRO proposes to cut 350 staff to help look after its property portfolio
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