This Month
‘Cynical ploy’: Coalition’s student maths gets a fail mark
The Coalition stands accused of creative maths after claiming it would raise $3.5billion from overseas students in taxes and visa fees, despite slashing numbers.
April
Canada’s collapse a warning as international students baulk at fees
Half of all prospective international students say an increase in visa fees of the magnitude promised by Labor and the Coalition would make them reconsider studying in Australia.
Labor overestimates revenue boost from foreign student fee raid
The party has based its calculations on near-record student visa application figures that jar with its own policy to bring down enrolments.
Foreign students slugged with visa fees seven-times higher than rivals
Student visa fees are set to rise, again, this time making them seven times more expensive than the United States, one of Australia’s closest competitors.
ANU secret document raises questions over whether Senate was misled
A confidential consultant report details potential multimillion-dollar budget cuts at the university as part of its $250 million restructure.
‘Remarkable’: Preschools face tougher scrutiny than unis
A parents’ committee at a preschool is subject to far harsher and more onerous governance rules that multi-million dollar universities. Why?
Inside the biblical mess unravelling at ACU
Seven senior NSW legal and political figures wrote a 20-page letter to the regulator alleging a catalogue of scandals, missteps and questionable decisions at ACU.
Callum’s $78k student debt is proof HECS is broken
Young people are facing record, unsustainable HECS debts due to an unfair student loan system, says independent senator David Pocock.
Migrant surge to persist as graduates bring in families
A glut of Indian and Nepalese graduates bringing out family members while they work on post-study visas will wreak havoc with election promises on migration.
Thousands of jobs face the axe as unis slammed again
Universities are facing tough times as low demand, stricter migration measures and reduced funding hit their bottom lines.
Western Sydney Uni to cut 400 jobs to stave off $80m deficit
Western Sydney is the latest university to announce a big cost-cutting program and hundreds of job cuts.
One in three kids struggles with maths. This school fixed it in a year
Too many Australian students are leaving school with substandard numeracy skills. But that can change if a few simple changes are made.
Unis would lose 80,000 students, $3b under Dutton plan: analysis
Australia’s biggest and most research intensive universities would bear the brunt of Peter Dutton’s cuts to overseas students, according to analysis by Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute.
‘Difficult decision’: ANU council member resigns
A member of ANU’s governing body has resigned, citing concerns about the council’s direction and a lack of accountability after months of turmoil.
‘Dangerous’ cut to overseas students would trash $51b sector
Peter Dutton has long talked tough on migration. Now he’s revealed a plan that will target our best universities while giving carve-outs for private colleges.
Nous billed ANU for $500k, not the ‘circa $50,000’ executive claimed
Australian National University has been engulfed in a growing furore over a major change management plan, having trouble getting its facts in order.
Pocock says ANU misled Senate, demands inquiry
The university’s vice chancellor, Genevieve Bell, is again under fire after the ACT senator accused her of providing misleading information to an inquiry.
Trump crackdown forces academics to cancel US trips
University researchers are rewriting their travel plans over arrests and rejections at the US border.
March
ANU council’s ignorance about Bell’s Intel role belies Bishop’s words
Genevieve Bell and Julie Bishop survive vote of no confidence in their leadership, but questions on notice at Senate estimates raise some puzzling issues.
Dutton’s migration cuts are ‘not a game changer’
The opposition leader is conflating temporary and permanent migrants to criticise Labor’s immigration track record and his cuts won’t free up housing, experts say.