This Month
The new normal?
The Higher Education Summit will look at the big picture – the confluence of global and local factors that are at play in shaping a sector that is struggling to hold on to historical norms and assumptions while being shaken on its very foundations.
How this school is changing girls’ study of economics
A Melbourne private school has driven a remarkable turnaround in the number of students, particularly females, taking up the subject for year 12.
May
I help kids get into Harvard. Here’s what I’m telling them now
Students from our region have never been strangers to headwinds. So to the families wondering whether to step back: Don’t. Step up.
Trump attacks on unis leave international students in limbo
Harvard MBA student Fangzhou Jiang, who did his undergraduate degree at ANU, says international students are riding rolling waves of fear.
Forget Trump and Harvard. Australian universities have an AI problem
Many students now lack the general knowledge, or even specific knowledge, to know when the AI tools are hallucinating.
Newington co-ed fight raises questions about private school charities
When you count so many investment bankers and accounting partners among your old boys, it’s no wonder your trust structures get complicated.
Newington defeats old boy challenge to co-ed plans
Justice Guy Parker put a swift end to a challenge to stop girls attending the Sydney private school.
Trump’s Harvard ban exposes Australia’s foreign student problem
For lecturers striving to provide a meaningful learning experience for all, it presents a real dilemma when some students struggle with basic English.
Universities say they’re preparing students for the future. They’re not
Australia faces a choice: remain stuck in outdated systems or lead the global productivity race through innovation, industry partnerships, and AI adoption.
Mark Scott on what Australia should learn from Trump’s Harvard attack
The University of Sydney vice chancellor says international students in Australia feel “bereft” about the debate regarding their presence in the country.
How graduates are finding an edge in a tightening employment market
New data shows hiring is slowing down, but those who take their destinies into their own hands still have a bright future.
Bill Gates swears by it. What you can do to become a top CEO
Sure it takes skill, drive and passion to get to the pinnacle. But is coaching the secret sauce behind some of Australia’s best-known leaders?
Battle over all-boys private school hinges on just one word
An 1873 trust deed says Sydney’s Newington College was set up to educate ‘youth’. A group of former students says that means boys only.
Inside private school retreats trying to knock entitlement out of kids
A small number of schools have long-term residential programs designed to teach resilience, teamwork and compassion. But do they work?
UTS pays KPMG $4.8m to tell it how to save money
The consulting firm is also on the hook for “a well-structured and compelling narrative” to help sell the job-cutting plan.
Former ASIC chairman James Shipton returns to police jurisdiction
A sojourn at Oxford briefly interrupted an investigation into a recorded phone call.
April
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.
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.
PEP hires sell-side advisers for tertiary education business
Pacific Equity Partners eschewed selling UP Education to a rival buyout firm, and instead raised a single-asset special purpose vehicle (aka continuation fund) in 2022 to buy it from Fund V’s investors.
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.
Why Aussie kids can’t do basic maths
Australia fails to equip teachers with the resources or training they need. That’s unfair on teachers and their students.
UTS restructure fraught with risks
The inner workings of a $100 million a year cost-cutting plan provide a timely case study of the enormous pressures on Australia’s $50 billion education export industry.
UTS to cut $100m and sack 400 despite surge in foreign students
UTS is facing a staff backlash and questions over its governance as it pushes ahead with a cost-cutting plan triggered by the student cap legislation that never passed the federal parliament.