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Professor S. Bruce Dowton, Vice-Chancellor and President of Macquarie University, and Dr Ross McLennan, Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Services, Macquarie University.

Controversial academic still on Macquarie University payroll, says VC

Macquarie University academic still employed despite spate of antisemitic statements over the past 16 months.

  • Julie Hare

October 2024

Edith Cowan University business and law school Executive dean Maryam Omari.

The best school for teaching takes a strategic, caring approach

The winner of the Teaching category has hired talent from around the world and established partnerships with many global institutions.

  • Alexandra Cain

August 2024

Students at the University of Sydney. It, along with other Group of Eight universities, will lose the largest number of students under changes the government is making.

Major universities smashed in Labor about-face on overseas students

The government will cap numbers and redistribute them across the sector, one of the country’s biggest export industries, with smaller institutions to benefit.

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  • Julie Hare

June 2024

Dr Alison Barnes, National President, National Tertiary Education Union.

Unis should face inquiry into $380m in underpayments: academics’ union

Universities are the worst underpayers of staff across the economy and now the academics’ union wants a federal inquiry.

  • Julie Hare
Adam Taras, with supervisor Dr Don Dansereau, completed the research as part of his Honours thesis.

Aussie experts can stop your smart-device cameras spying on you

When photos snapped by a robot vacuum cleaner of a woman on the toilet went viral, the smart home sector knew it had a problem; Aussie academics claim to have solved it.

  • Alana Piper
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April 2024

International student Mai Le says her goal is to achieve permanent residency after she graduates.

Steep rise in student visa rejections ‘scaring applicants away’

News of the federal government’s clampdown on student visas is spreading far and wide and the US is becoming the destination of choice.

  • Julie Hare

February 2024

The University of Sydney would be the single largest contributor to the federal government’s proposed infrastructure fund.

Unis that would pay the most – and the least – under ‘envy tax’ plan

Just six of the country’s 41 universities would bankroll half of the annual contributions to the higher education future fund proposed in the Albanese government’s universities accord.

  • Julie Hare

September 2023

UNSW leaps to top in rank for excellence

A mix of sandstone and non-sandstone universities make up this year’s finalists in the quality category.

  • Alexandra Cain

August 2023

Winning strategy: Collaboration leads the way in industry engagement

Comment provided by the winner of the Industry Engagement award, QUT.

  • Sara Couperthwaite

QUT partnership fuels renewables expansion

A partnership between QUT and industry leads the way with critical mineral production

  • Sian Powell
Education minister Jason Clare says he will remove the politics from the awarding of research grants.

‘No political plaything’: Labor to end research grant veto

Changes to the Australian Research Council will ensure government ministers cannot veto grants at whim.

  • Julie Hare

July 2023

Chairman of Hesta Nicola Roxon at the BOSS director roundtable.

Nicola Roxon ‘cross’ that business avoiding the Voice

Australia’s first female Attorney-General and Labor MP turned company director has made an impassioned plea for business not to abrogate its responsibilities on the Voice.

  • Patrick Durkin

Boards pull back on investment amid slowing economy

BOSS this week met with boardroom heavyweights from some of our largest companies around the country who warned the economy is in “very mixed” shape.

  • Patrick Durkin and Anthony Macdonald

June 2023

Sydney University is leading the field in converting casual academic roles to permanent tenured positions.

Sydney Uni sets agenda for new academic roles

Two years of protracted negotiations at Sydney University have resulted in 330 new permanent roles with similar moves in other universities.

  • Julie Hare

March 2023

Professor Claire Macken - RMIT

Universities marching towards gender parity by degrees

Many structural barriers are coming down but there is still a long way to go before women achieve a fairer outcome in academia.

  • Julie Hare
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February 2023

The CEO of the Digital Health Co-operative Research centre Annette Schmiede has called for an end to the culture of fear that is stopping sharing of health data.

‘Culture of fear’ keeps health data locked away

The lack of clear national rules to enable the sharing of data from across the health sector is stymying research efforts, an expert says.

  • Tom Burton

December 2022

Jackie French, Director of Faculty Creative Arts and Digital Design at TAFE Queensland with Brendan Hopper, CBA’s Chief Information Officer for Technology and CBA’s General Manager HR for Technology Miriam Fox at Mt Gravatt TAFE . Picture by Paul Harris. Monday 5 December 2022 Jackie French, Director of Faculty Creative Arts and Digital Design at TAFE Queensland with Brendan Hopper, CBA’s Chief Information Officer for Technology and CBA’s General Manager HR for Technology Miriam Fox at Mt Gravatt TAFE.

CBA’s plan to lure Queensland’s best techies

CBA’s technology chief says he has been “stealthily” hiring in Queensland as the bank opens a new hub for tech workers in Brisbane.

  • Tess Bennett
“I’m a quiet achiever,” says QUT vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil, who is heading a government review into the Australian Research Council.

Push to rebuild trust in the research council

Margaret Sheil is not cowed by the enormity of her task in rebuilding confidence in the Australian Research Council after years of political interference.

  • Julie Hare

November 2022

Vald co-founders Sam James and Laurie Malone at the company’s workshop in Brisbane.

Brisbane sports tech raises $36m after ditching IPO plans

“You realise being listed isn’t as exciting as the brokers suggest,” says the chief executive of Vald.

  • Tess Bennett
Education should always be seen through the lens of students, not institutions, says Peter Coaldrake.

Coaldrake wins education lifetime achievement award

Professor Coaldrake is famously a team player. He says there is nothing about his success that “was ever in the first-person singular”.

  • Julie Hare

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