Four months into one of the most challenging higher education jobs in Australia, we checked in with Nicola Phillips and found an HE leader feeling out new templates to thrive.
“You cannot build globally competitive universities while treating them like delivery agencies of government” – UA CEO Luke Sheehy
There is a 12-month freeze on applications to accredit new training courses. But it only applies to private providers; government schools, public universities and TAFEs are exempt.
Uni Sydney revenue was $3.9bn last year, effectively unchanged on the previous year but its $194m headline earnings were “considerably down” on $540m in 2024.
One in five graduates feel overqualified for their job, three years after completing their degree, in a comprehensive longitudinal study conducted as part of the QILT program.
“We have entered a new age of heightened regulation. The focus has moved from building excellence and celebrating the highest standards to policing minimum standards,” Merlin Crossley writes.
Documents released under FOI reveal ANU senior executives were considering a case against Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell as staff opposition intensified to her staff-cutting restructure last year.
The Australian Research Council states Education Minister Jason Clare “informed the Parliament” last Thursday he had nixed funding for 13 applications, perhaps in invisible ink – there is no mention in the proof Hansard.
The Coalition are eyeing serious cuts to international student numbers onshore as they seek to cut annual net migration numbers to 200,000 or fewer.
Jason Clare spells out how ATEC will use its powers to end the “cut and paste” university system.
Compliance-led security tends to produce brittle outcomes. It can generate paper trails—often built under considerable time pressure and with limited guidance from government—without building the institutional judgement that security requires.
International students were hardly the flavour of the month in the last election campaign, but if the sector doesn’t act this year, onshore enrolments could become a far more damaging issue, as all parties seek to present themselves as cracking down on immigration.
Is the widespread issue of underpayment of HE staff incompetence or criminal behaviour? A Senate Committee is deliberating.
ANU’s new Acting Pro-Chancellor Andrew Metcalfe chaired a staff meeting Tuesday where he bucketed members of the University Council he joined last August.
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