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Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles, announces a new ministerial directive on Friday.

Labor wants 50/50 split between universities and VET

The move would mean pushing tens of thousands of prospective university students towards TAFE and other vocational courses.

May

Harvard’s antisemitic harassment reflects a deeper cultural malaise that has taken root across Western higher education, where combative identity politics too often eclipses academic integrity and institutional accountability.

Trump’s war on Harvard could cripple Australian research

The blunt-force targeting of foreign students is not only reckless but erodes the pillars of intellectual diversity that Trump claims to be defending.

The biggest metropolitan universities stand to lose the least from visa changes due to their ability to impose high fee increases.

Unis to increase fees as international student numbers fall: S&P

Top-tier universities will be hit hardest by falling enrolments but can most easily increase fees for courses seen as “luxury goods”, the ratings agency says

Government targets to increase the number of people with a degree are way off track.

Fail: University degree targets ‘can’t be met’

On current trajectories and with falling funding, enrolments could be lower by the end of the decade than today.

April

University of Technology Sydney vice chancellor Andrew Parfitt is off to the US.

UTS chief jets to US amid cost-cutting purge

The lure of alumni events in Los Angeles and New York has Andrew Parfitt flying across the Pacific.

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March

ANU vice chancellor Genevieve Bell was paid $70,000 for just 24 hours work for Intel.

Trump administration cut $1m funding for ANU terrorism research

ANU lost a $923,000 US-funded research grant into terrorism and targeted violence because it no longer “effectuates the priorities” of its backer, the Department of Homeland Security.

Genevieve Bell is overseeing a major restructure of Australian National University.

$60m overstatement of ANU deficit raises staff alarm

Three months after senior figures at ANU questioned whether budget forecasts were being “catastrophised”, the university’s 2024 deficit has been downgraded.

February

We asked 4 experts to mark Labor on education. Here’s what they said

Anthony Albanese says education is one of his greatest accomplishments in his first term in government. We asked four experts if that adds up.

November 2024

Labor has now come up with a political sugar hit to win over university-educated younger voters who are repaying what used to be known as the HECS debts.

Labor’s uni debt election bribe trashes fairness

The principle of ensuring fairness all-round will be trashed by handing out a 20 per cent debt cut regardless of income. It is middle-class welfare on steroids.

July 2024

There is a vast and growing difference in how much students contribute to their degree based on what they study.

The $50,000 arts degree arrives, as student debt climbs

The cost of a degree is at historical highs, with no relief in sight for at least another two years.

June 2024

Dr Abul Rizvi told the National Press Club that an entrance exam would ensure high quality international students.

Set an ATAR-style uni entrance score for foreign students: Rizvi

If international students had to get a minimum grade to win a place – as domestic applicants already have to – fewer would be able to rort the visa system.

May 2024

Peter Coaldrake says university governing bodies need to be tougher on their vice-chancellors.

Failure to rein in uni bosses led to problems of ‘excess’

Peter Coaldrake has been deeply involved in the university sector for five decades, the past four years as head regulator. And he is troubled by what is going on.

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.

Education Minister Jason Clare with the universities report on Sunday.

The universities accord is like one giant déjà vu

The report has big ambitions. So did the 2008 Bradley review. They are not too dissimilar in scope and intent.

10 big ideas in the universities shake-up

From doubling the numbers of students to a ‘Robin Hood’ tax on rich institutions: Here are some of the biggest recommendations in the universities accord and what they mean.

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Education minister Jason Clare launching with universities accord at Western Sydney University with Energy Minister Chris Bowen and UWS vice chanceller Jennifer Westacott.

Bright, poor students guaranteed a uni spot

Aspiring university students whose families earn less than $54,000 a year will be guaranteed a place in a degree if they meet admission benchmarks.

The key findings of the Accord make it all the more remarkable that our universities have achieved as much as they have.

Universities accord report highlights funding shortage

If Australia is to have a world-class university system to sustain our standard of living in a highly competitive world, we are going to need to invest far more in it.

A university education needs to be accessible to all, says Jason Clare.

‘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.

January 2024

Young Australians seem to be shunning university education, even as Education Minister Jason Clare aims to lift the proportion with degrees.

School leavers shun uni, enrolments hit near-decade low

Gap years were back in 2022, but the 8.2 per cent drop in first-year university students also confirms a worrying trend that young people are shunning degrees.

August 2023

Some colleges are unscrupulously recruiting students away from the school they have enrolled in to get a visa.

Poaching of overseas students rife, regulator warns

The higher education regulator is investigating several providers over “risks to compliance” and has warned all universities and colleges to abide by their registration conditions.

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