Yesterday
Probe over safety of Jewish students at Sydney University
The SafeWork NSW investigation follows a warning from Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus that universities have to do more to stop antisemitism.
- Tom Burton
This Month
Why Sydney Uni vice chancellor Mark Scott is in the firing line
Street art in Sydney University’s famed graffiti tunnel was exhibit A as Jewish groups stepped up their campaign to unseat the high-profile vice chancellor.
- Tom Burton
Sydney Uni VC asked security about terror groups at protests
No concerns about Hizb ut-Tahrir have been raised by police or intelligence agencies, says Sydney University vice chancellor Mark Scott
- Tom Burton
August
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Mark Scott failed to lead when radicals took over Sydney campus
The University of Sydney vice chancellor has sent the clearest possible message: he is prepared to accept some violence and hatred to appease extremists who threaten more violence and hatred.
- Jeremy Leibler
Limiting international enrolments 'could be an act of self-harm': Scott
University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott says the government and opposition are playing politics with international student numbers.
- Updated
Vice chancellors feel the political heat
Universities say they are in crisis after Labor’s cap on overseas students, but the education minister says his priority is getting more equity students into the system.
- Jennifer Hewett
Sydney Uni enters hiring crackdown amid foreign student cap fallout
Sydney University head Mark Scott has flagged that vacant roles may not be filled in light of the migration reforms targeting international students.
- Julie Hare
July
- Exclusive
- University
The uni reform that has vice chancellors in rare furious agreement
The first piece of reform under the universities accord is not going to plan, says vice chancellors.
- Julie Hare
Trump’s ‘dangerous precedent’; ANZ lashed for fees; Bank names new CEO
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
May
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Populism aside, questions hang over universities’ foreign student trade
The political risk confronting universities’ lucrative international students trade raises questions about their business model and the benefits for higher education.
- The AFR View
Students arrested in Queensland as protest encampments defy orders
Pro-Palestine student protesters have been arrested in Queensland while others in Melbourne have defied orders to vacate an occupied building.
- Gus McCubbing
Pro-Palestine ‘tent cities’ not going anywhere, students vow
Hundreds of students have camped out at universities demanding the institutions cut ties with weapon manufacturers and condemn Israel’s war in Gaza.
- Gus McCubbing and Julie Hare
Dutton calls on unis to shut down pro-Palestinian protests
Peter Dutton says vice chancellors are tolerating racist protests on their campuses and should shut the activists down.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- University
No safe spaces for Jewish students at universities
Vice chancellors say what’s happening on campuses here is a million miles away from what’s happening in the US. That’s a statement of wishful thinking – not reality.
- John Roskam
March
Thodey to replace Hutchinson as Sydney University chancellor
With Sydney Uni deriving about half its revenue from foreign students, incoming chancellor David Thodey welcomes “a conversation” about effect on the broader community.
- Julie Hare
February
- Opinion
- Education
Flaws in the fix for universities
The Universities Accord is supposed to be a blueprint for Australia’s higher education sector, but there are more questions than answers about how its goals will be achieved.
- Jennifer Hewett
‘Wealth tax’ for top unis in $10b funding shake-up
A major review of higher education has recommended a return to demand-driven funding to get more poor students into university; a $10 billion infrastructure fund; an independent tertiary education commission; and bonuses paid based on graduation.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
September 2023
Australia’s most powerful people in education in 2023
There are significant changes ahead for the way children are taught in schools and the cross-section of students at universities.
- Julie Hare
August 2023
Are ‘faux’ professorships undermining academia?
Professors of practice bring vast real-world experience into university, but a group of traditionalists is not a fan.
- Julie Hare
Universities’ stranglehold on new teachers undermining reform
Universities educate 99 per cent of new teachers, but high attrition rates suggest many are not doing a great job of it.
- Julie Hare