Student debt relief vow pays off for Labor
Anthony Albanese says his first piece of legislation in the new parliament will wipe 20 per cent from outstanding student loans on June 1.
Higher Education
UniMelb tutor in anti-Israel slur claim
When a Jewish student left the classroom after the tutor allegedly accused Israel of genocide and apartheid, he brushed it off, saying it didn’t matter because the subject co-ordinators were ‘anti-Zionist’.
Lib bid to put foreign students to work
As both parties promise to cut immigration, the Coalition has offered to let international students work 60 hours a fortnight in a policy Labor branded ‘bizarre’.
‘Grossly biased’: Law lecturer wears anti-Dutton T-shirt
A UWA law lecturer on Tuesday donned a T-shirt that read ‘good morning to everyone except Peter Dutton’ and delivered a lecture on how it was ‘unfortunate’ the Greens were not a major party.
Cuts to TAFE funding, more school chaplains
A day out from the federal election, the Coalition has finally revealed its education policy – with free TAFE abolished but more spending on school chaplains and children with autism.
Commentary
COMMENTARY
Hungry for knowledge … and starving: poverty shouldn’t be uni rite of passage
Trying to get ahead by studying at university shouldn’t be a recipe for poverty.
ANALYSIS
Shoot first, investigate later: Trump has got it wrong with Harvard
Few Americans will shed tears for the Cambridge crowd, but there are good reasons to oppose this unprecedented attempt by the White House to micromanage a private university.
COMMENTARY
Epic fail but you actually don’t need a teaching degree to teach at uni
Things are going to get worse for those academics who worked out how to teach on the job and are too busy researching to learn how do things differently.
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.
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Deep staff turmoil emerges amid ANU termination case
Sean Smith has taken ANU to court after a protracted HR process turned him, he says, into ‘a ghost’. However, a letter shows staff raised concerns about the professor’s behaviour in 2023.
Plea for closer ties with industry
An award-winning scientist has championed closer research collaboration between universities and corporate Australia.
Mining and TAFE alliance to pile pressure on universities
The mining industry is backing a new qualification that will challenge universities’ stronghold on bachelor degrees.
Overseas students to cop 25pc visa fee hike
As both sides of politics pledge to cut international student numbers, Labor has announced a plan to cash in on visa applicants.
Ex-mandarin likens Hamas to Mandela
The ANU has hosted an anti-Israel speech by former senior bureaucrat John Menadue in which he compared Hamas to Nelson Mandela.
University boss discounts foreign student ‘phantom factor’
QUT’s vice-chancellor has blamed the poaching of foreign students by private providers as the reason almost half of its new international students dropped out or failed to show up.
Peak bodies pan student safety rules
The tertiary education watchdog has upset universities by proposing new safeguards for students through better handling of complaints.
Research grant revamp fractures unis
As universities diverge over a funding review, medical research institutes are seeking a share of taxpayer grants through the Australian Research Council.
ANU faces bullying, negligence allegations
Renowned scientist Sean Smith has taken the ANU to court for unfair dismissal, saying there was ‘absolute negligence on the part of ANU HR and then brutal behaviour to cover it up’.
Law academics trying to divide us along racial lines
To be blunt, what is ‘Indigenous law’? Australia is a sovereign nation with one set of laws and a large majority rejected racial separatism at the voice referendum.
Foreign student dropouts chase false trade job promise
As universities reveal large numbers of overseas students are abandoning degrees, an industry insider says the bipartisan push to cut visas is causing panic course-hopping into training in carpentry, plastering and painting.
Top university’s ‘two-lane’ tactics to tame AI
A Sydney University academic’s ‘dystopian’ suggestion that people ‘might marry AI’ has added to student concerns over the infiltration of artificial intelligence in academia.
UQ: law lecturer comments were ‘not appropriate’
The University of Queensland has admitted that some comments senior law lecturer Dani Linder made in a lecture ‘were not appropriate, after it emerged she berated first year students for leaving class during the topic to Indigenous legal history.
Macquarie Uni dumps acknowledgement of country assessment
Sydney’s Macquarie University has bowed to pressure and will no longer mark law students on their delivery of an acknowledgement of country.
Unis slam foreign student ‘phantoms’
The Coalition has vowed to get rid of immigration ‘rorts and shonks’ after a top university revealed half of its foreign students had dropped out of their degrees.
Uni leader makes case for tradies
University of NSW chancellor David Gonski has questioned the Albanese government’s ambitious target for 55 per cent of young Australians to get a university degree.
Monash examining ethical ‘concerns’ over research by leading economist
Monash University’s ethics and integrity team is investigating ‘concerns’ over research carried out by renowned development economist Asad Islam.
‘Burn it down’: Why Harvard is leading the university fight against Trump
Harvard University has drawn a line in the sand against the Trump administration and its sweeping demands for cultural change. But it may pay the price for crossing the President.
Trump threatens Harvard’s tax exempt status as row escalates
Donald Trump threatens to tax Harvard as a political entity as the university hardens its resistance to the administration’s demands over its government structure.
Foreign student visa appeals soar amid caps push
The number of international students challenging visa decisions via the appeals tribunal has soared to 25,854, prompting warnings the backlog will stall efforts to reduce temporary migration.
Foreign students line university vice-chancellors’ pockets
Six-figure pay rises have been granted to some university vice-chancellors as financial reports reveal how universities are continuing to cash in on international student revenue.
‘Appropriate action’ looms after uni lecturer’s walkout ‘threat’
University of Queensland will take ‘appropriate action’ after an academic suggested students who allegedly walked out of her law lectures over Indigenous issues would struggle to get jobs.
Greens put $46.5bn free uni proposal to Labor
The Greens will push Labor to sign up to a $46.5bn cash splurge on free university and TAFE in the event of a hung parliament, amid warnings a post-election deal between the two parties will lead to higher deficits.
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.
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