Why should an arts degree cost more than medicine?
An arts degree will cost students just under $17,000 a year, which makes medicine and dentistry a bargain at $13,000. There are ways to address this, just not politically easy ones.
Education
‘Absurd research’ gets taxpayer millions under the Australian Research Council | FULL LIST
A three-year university project that seeks to disprove the ‘protectionist myth’ that Australia is ‘an island continent girt by sea’ has been awarded nearly half a million dollars as part of a grant program that no longer allows for government vetoes.
Guardian of Indigenous knowledge and history
Respected anthropologist Kim Anthony Raymont Akerman, who studied Indigenous culture in the Kimberley, has died, aged 76.
‘Why did abusive students go free?’, Jewish body asks
Deakin University has been challenged to explain why students who chanted anti-Semitic slurs to Jews on campus should be allowed to keep studying there | Watch the video.
Labor ‘is failing Jewish students’
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus should ‘immediately’ direct a parliamentary joint committee to investigate university anti-Semitism, a Labor-led Senate committee has advised.
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Uni debacle was always going to get ugly
Our two oldest universities are both loudly left-wing campuses – they have activist staff and student groups where the party-line is settler-colonist theory – in which Israel as is has no right to exist.
The many pitfalls of exporting education
The Victorian government will kick $5m to local universities to set up overseas and avoid Canberra’s international student quotas. Now why hasn’t anybody tried that before? They have and it doesn’t do much.
Free for all: why publicly funded research should be made public
Big publishers can get away with rorting the world research system because academics generally just assume taxpayers pick up the bill.
Tertiary education must serve nation, not unis’ bottom line
Squabbling over foreign student quotas will achieve nothing. So let’s be a bigger country, with more expansive ambitions for ourselves, and for the tertiary education system that is so vital to our future.
Win for VCs on powerful regulator but hold off on celebrating for now
The proposed Australian Tertiary Education Commission will allocate funding, oversee enrolments and keep institutions in line with government policy. But an independent review has rejected the Education Department’s move for total control.
Smart politics sends ivy leaguers a clear message
The Albanese government has done what it was always going to do and will regulate international student numbers from next year.
Minister canes unis over effect of early offers
As year 12 students approach their final exams, one education minister is worried that early university offers have encouraged them to slack off.
Risky research warning over international student cuts
The Albanese government’s plan to limit international student numbers could ‘incentivise universities to accept high-risk foreign investment’, a foreign interference expert has warned.
‘Rewarding privilege’: early uni offers accused of warping results
Education minister slams universities for making early offers to too many Year 12 students before they even sit their final exams.
Universities name their new leaders
Professor Emma Johnston appointed new University of Melbourne VC as South Australian mega university reveals leadership team.
Top marine biologist to be Melbourne Uni’s first female VC
Emma Johnston, who is currently the deputy vice-chancellor of research at the University of Sydney, is an esteemed scientist who has specialised in the impact of humans on marine ecosystems.
Labor electorates feel the sting of foreign enrolment cap
Labor-held seats have been hardest hit by the clampdown on international student numbers in a bid to curb net migration, foreshadowing more political pain for Anthony Albanese.
‘Give kids the tools to deal with bullies’
Teaching kids how to have positive thoughts and reminding them of their self-worth is key to handling bullying behaviour, a leading child educator says.
Cap a bad fit for uni aiming to get ahead
Australia’s fastest growing private university has demanded to be ‘treated equally and consistently’ with the nation’s public universities under Labor’s international student caps.
Unis warned on menace of foreign spies
ASIO has told universities to hire security escorts for foreign scientists and academics, and keep gifts out of high-security zones to safeguard research from espionage.
Dalton hails ‘tough … but caring’ high school teachers
‘She took no bullshit – but if she saw some sort of light in you she just helped you turn it up.’ Acclaimed author and journalist Trent Dalton gives a shout-out to his high school teachers.
Coalition calls on vice-chancellor Scott to resign
The Coalition has demanded that University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott resign over his management of the student reaction to the October 7 terrorist attacks.
Probe into uni foreign intrusion allegations
The federal opposition is demanding answers over foreign interference allegations as the federal Education Department questions the Australian National University.
‘Boat arrivals’: Dutton slams visa rort
Peter Dutton says a wave of international students challenging their visa decision in the AAT to extend their stay is the ‘modern version of boat arrivals’.
Labor hails 150,000 new students in fee-free TAFE courses
Anthony Albanese hailed the statistics, claiming ‘Australia is better off’ for the scheme, which hopes to address the nation’s critical skills shortages by funding students in vocational training.
Game on: large surge in student visa appeal cases
Australia’s courts and tribunals are bracing for tens of thousands of international students appealing their permits being refused or cancelled, as the cohort fights back against Labor’s bid to use increased visa rejections to slash net migration.
Doubt cast on whether uni acted on extremist warnings
Despite receiving multiple warnings of the extremist group’s involvement in encampment protests, internal emails between top university leaders obtained by FOI show no mention of it and that the university failed to provide any documentation otherwise.
India’s campus equation ‘a win for all’
India’s network of engineering and technology institutions could also set up campuses in Australia under deals offered by visiting Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goya.
Defence researcher in security fight at top uni
A defence scientist working on sensitive national security research has accused an Australian National University academic with Russian ties of seeking help to procure a government security clearance.
On-the-job course leads to tech jobs
A two-year apprenticeship offers training at AWS alongside remote coursework from Swinburne – a hybrid approach that was recommended as part of the Universities Accord.
Another round at shaping lives for better
Entries for the 2024 round of the Shaping Australia Awards, which recognise universities’ achievements in solving the nation’s biggest challenges and making a meaningful contribution to people’s lives, have been extended.
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