Greens put $46.5bn free uni proposal to Labor
Speaking from the Prime Minister’s electorate, the Greens will pledge to make university and TAFE free for all with a $46.5bn investment.
Higher Education
Data breach for 10,000 current and former uni students
It comes as the personal information of an unknown number of WSU members appears to have been posted to the dark web – the latest in a number of ‘persistent and targeted’ cyber attacks.
ATAR of 39 and accepted into a teaching degree
As Australia cries out for more teachers, some universities are inflating enrolments by admitting students with the lowest high school results.
Engineer this: extra 60,000 graduates
Engineers Australia has challenged universities to train an extra 60,000 engineers over the next decade to fill skills shortages.
Coalition policy ‘will cost’ Go8 unis $1.2bn
What would the Coalition’s proposed foreign student crackdown cost top universities? Group of Eight chief executive Vicki Thomson has crunched numbers. But some universities are unafraid.
Commentary
COMMENTARY
Unis will miss globalisation now that it has gone
The US government can fund or not fund what it likes. Suggestions the Australian government should consider the US the equivalent of the PRC are ridiculous.
COMMENTARY
Let’s call ‘research misconduct’ what it really is – fakery and fraud
Faked scientific findings can send other researchers off on dead-end trails, pursuing world-changing, lifesaving results that can’t exist. Universities must stop it before it’s too late.
BUDGET 2025: COMMENTARY
Unis must stop just demanding funds and move with the times
University managements have long assumed that their control of courses and power to issue qualifications would see off competitors. Problem is that people who need a specific skill can now pick it up online for a fraction of the cost.
COMMENTARY
Seven things that matter in election education battle
The election issue for universities is a choice between more, or much more, government control. But there is one big difference.
COMMENTARY
‘Outright incompetence’: Why unis keep underpaying staff
It comes down to management indifference and union recalcitrance. It’s just easier for everybody to announce that everything is the fault of inadequate government funding.
COMMENTARY
It’s not rocket science: Universities can’t get money for nothing
If the Coalition wins the federal election the next education minister will have final say on where Australian Research Council money goes. Seem strange that this is actually an issue? Not to academics who argued hard for the present system of little oversight.
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Divorce, disability, poverty: Third of uni students on equity awards
Equity and disadvantage provisions have been used to lower academic entry standards by one in three university applicants, the nation’s biggest admissions processing centre has revealed.
‘A last resort’: ANU council member resigns
The twice-elected member of the Australian National University Council told her colleagues the Council no longer ‘aligns with the principles of accountability and representation’.
‘Overseas students are scapegoats, not the cause’
Student housing developers have rejected Coalition plans to slash the intake from offshore but want universities to guarantee beds for first-year international students.
Unis blame politicians for ‘race to the bottom’
As Labor and the Coalition pledge to slash migration, Universities Australia warns it is ‘crazy’ to cut revenue from foreign students.
Breakthrough in mining tech
Mining tech innovator NextOre and the University of Technology Sydney’s Robotics Institute have banded together to develop a revolutionary ore sorting system.
Student ‘30pc flat caps to cost $4bn’
The peak body for universities says a proposal to cap international student numbers at a percentage of total enrolments could cost the economy $4bn and cut almost 55,000 students.
Student debt cuts ‘to benefit teals, Greens’
Jason Clare says Labor’s election pledge to cut student debt by 20 per cent will benefit constituents in hotly contested independent and Greens seats.
Academics condemn Bishop, ANU leaders
ANU staff have passed a vote of no confidence in chancellor Julie Bishop and vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell over job cuts and leadership scandals.
Coalition vows to match Labor schools funding ‘dollar for dollar’
School funding deals have won bipartisan backing but the details remain secret.
Trades trump degrees in jobs market
Is a degree worth the debt? New data reveals that apprenticeships can lead to better employment outcomes than university degrees – without the HECS debt.
Uni law school acknowledges course ‘hijack’
Macquarie University will review its law school practices following revelations law students faced the threat of failing an exam if they performed an underwhelming acknowledgment of country.
UWA knocks back ‘from the river to the sea’ banner-painting event
Pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Western Australia have complained they were denied permission to paint a banner on campus with the slogan ‘from the river to the sea’.
Oxford alters Latin oath to make it non-binary
For centuries the Latin used during degree ceremonies at Oxford University has referred to ‘masters, ladies and gentlemen’.
Election gets uni bosses off the hook
Vice-chancellors who faced a grilling from senators over their million-dollar salaries could be off the hook after a Senate inquiry was delayed.
Unis resist political ‘kneecapping’
Universities Australia CEO Luke Sheehy will call for ‘full and proper’ funding of higher education as major parties ‘kneecap’ the key revenue source of international students.
Wrong uni degree choices costing billions
‘Overwhelming, complex and confusing.’ Thousands of school leavers have cast judgment on universities’ admissions systems in a new study that calls for better career guidance.
ANU loses US funding: VC announces
The young Trump administration had already suspended or terminated research grants at six Australian universities over its eight weeks in office.
‘Soft marking’ for struggling uni students ‘dumbing down’ nation: academics
Hundreds of university professors and lecturers have blown the whistle on falling academic standards and cheating, in alarming evidence to a rushed Senate inquiry into university governance.
Coalition eyes flat uni cap on foreigners
Universities could be forced to reduce the number of foreign students to a percentage of their total student numbers, under a range of proposals floated by the Coalition.
What did this fish eat 15 million years ago? Easy, it’s still here in its stomach
Scientists have discovered a 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil, which showed what was in its stomach.
‘Corruption of system’: silks blast welcome to country law ratings
The uproar follows the revelation that a Macquarie University law course marked students’ delivery of an acknowledgement of country.
Country rites tokenistic, says Indigenous academic
A prominent Indigenous law academic says he would not follow Macquarie University’s example of assessing law students on how they deliver a welcome to country speech, unless there was a specific reason to do so.
Overseas students at risk of sexual violence
More than half of female international students in Australia have experienced sexual or domestic violence over the past 12 months, according to a national study.
Trespass case seen as possible path to ‘Wiradjuri sovereign nation’
A Wiradjuri man is challenging Charles Sturt University to prove the legitimacy of its land rights, after it appealed for his arrest over alleged trespassing.
Deliver a warm welcome to country or law students fail
Law students at Macquarie University face the threat of failing a key exam if they perform an underwhelming acknowledgement of country.
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