The Australian National University reports a $45m operating deficit for 2025, less than half the feared $100m shortfall that management used to make the case for the now abandoned Renew ANU savings strategy.
“I still get some satisfaction from marking supervised exams. At least I know I am reading a real person’s story. If the work is good, I rejoice. If it is weak in parts, I feel I can help by providing targeted feedback,” Merlin Crossley writes.
The latest Senate Inquiry into higher education is poorly defined and initiated on a false premise, former NCVER boss Craig Fowler writes.
Something has diminished the vibrant stature of Australian student representatives, and it isn’t Voluntary Student Unionism, according to leaders from the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations.
The real challenge ahead is not detecting AI use, but designing assessment that captures thinking, not just output.
There is much to be learned from There is a House of Reps inquiry into scientific publishing, (it’s just not ours).
A new paper that identifies academic communication challenges faced by international students casts a fresh light on the need to refine support services and reframe the blame game on international student capability.
A report commissioned by WA Tertiary and International Education Minister Tony Buti into potential benefits and costs of university mergers in the west has lobbed into the Minister’s office, with much anticipation as to what the Government might propose.
The next era of higher education will not be defined by policy reform or funding settings alone – it will be shaped by the strength of leadership across Australia’s universities, Universities Australia CEO Luke Sheehy will tell the Future Campus HE People & Performance conference in June.
The ARC continues work on new measures of research output and insists that despite not measuring national research performance since the last ERA in 2018, existing rankings are not the answer.
When it comes to overcoming the great Australian indifference to Indonesia, Joel Blackwell says we’ve been doing it wrong.
HE Staff Welcome of the month / year comes from Curtain University’s Mollie Dollinger, ushering in Andrew Komoder as a new Faculty Senior Educational Designer via an unignorable LinkedIn post.
Appointments and achievements from the week in Australian HE.
Monash U and subsidiaries’ headline profit in 2025 was $580m, up from $308m in 2024, the university announced to staff yesterday – ahead of the Annual Report expected to be tabled in State Parliament next month.
The University of Newcastle announces its vision is, “to be a world-leading university for our regions” in what it bills as its “strategic plan” through to 2030.
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