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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.

It is time to explore questions that are discussed all too rarely in relation to recruiting, retaining and motivating staff in HE, as we face one of the most turbulent years of policy and environmental change in a generation.

Digital literacy upskilling is essential to combat misinformation and build capability for all HE staff.

Public perceptions of universities have declined – but are still well ahead of the Federal Government, according to the latest poll.

If generative AI has exposed anything, it is not simply that students can cheat. It is that many existing assessments were already too easy to complete without demonstrating real understanding. The answer is not to retreat to the past.


Taking more students shouldn’t necessarily be seen as a bad thing, Merlin Crossley writes.

The Department of Education is issuing edicts to universities and Mr Clare is reported as telling the Australian Research Council to focus on espionage risks.
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