For decades, V-Cs pitched universities as a national resource. But now they appear as giant corporations, focused primarily on their own interests. For institutions that still rely on public funding, it’s a big problem.
One of Australia’s biggest private education providers warns its profit will be cut in half as countries around the world ditch the welcome mat for international students.
Sydney University staff have publicly rejected an anti-Semitism definition, while the uni has doubled down on student protection.
Two University of Melbourne students have been expelled, and two suspended, after storming the office of a Jewish academic, prompting criticism from Greens deputy Mehreen Faruqi.
Exam bots are marking students’ work in less than a minute compared with a typical 30 minutes by teachers: how Australian schools are using artificial intelligence.
The new Universities Australia chair, as well as warning of loss of foreign-student income, says universities are being asked to do ‘incompatible things’ with freedoms and student safety.
The salary of the University of Sydney’s vice-chancellor has breached $1.33m a year, as foreign students and donors with deep pockets helped fill the coffers.
Australian universities ‘stand ready’ to support Chinese students expelled from the US as the Trump administration ‘aggressively revokes visas’.
Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt has apologised for harassment and bullying ‘under my watch’ at the Australian National University during his eight years as vice-chancellor.
Peak Jewish bodies are questioning why the Australian National University appears to be walking away from a definition of anti-Semitism it had a hand in creating.
An anonymous Newington College student, and his old-boy backers, have lost a legal challenge to stop the private boys’ school going co-ed.
Thousands of Australian academics and students are caught up in Donald Trump’s ban on foreign students attending American universities after the US President froze new visa processing.
Astrophysicist Brian Schmidt is scared — but Trump’s siege on US universities gives us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to level the field.
The education regulator has blocked 60 more commercial cheating websites that allow students to pay someone to complete assessments for them.
Attention, single students of the University of Sydney. Take down your Palestine tents and shed your hammer and sickle T-shirts. Your chance to become the next Queen Mary is here.
Here we go again with government intent on getting industry in a national research and development strategy. Tim Ayres shouldn’t throw out tried and true successful policies.
The review found widespread bullying, sexism, racial discrimination and nepotism, with one interviewee calling the system ‘dehumanising’.
‘Sickening and vile’ sexual harassment of female teachers and students has been called out by Liberal senator Sarah Henderson.
Universities are expecting that the number of international students they can recruit will continue to be limited under a revamped ministerial direction.
A new numeracy test has been introduced for year 1 students to check if they know how to count and add up.
Kindergarteners are exhibiting problematic sexual behaviour, mimicking what they have seen on the internet, as experts sound the alarm over kids sexually abusing classmates and siblings.
Sydney-based edtech platform is expanding to the US, bolstering its operations with key hires from Atlassian, as it seeks to combat skill shortages and help school leavers.
Female teachers have described how schoolboys had groped them, air-dropped porn to their work laptops, and taunted them with comments about rape and sexual acts.
Female teachers, on the frontline of schoolboys’ sexual harassment, are fleeing the profession while ‘terrorised’ girls are shunning school because of hi-tech bullying and abuse.
Australia’s ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd says he is working with the Trump administration following its decision to ban Harvard University from enrolling international students.
An associate professor ‘ashamed’ of his university after students turned their backs on their Jewish peers at last week’s special general meeting has spoken out.
The new Australian Tertiary Education Commission will push for Prac payments for all university students and a jobs broker to find them part-time work in their field of study.
University of Queensland researchers have developed with industry a biodegradable plastic fermented from bacteria and strengthened with Australian wood fibres.
Experts warn Australia risks losing its competitive advantage in Indonesia unless the government makes an effort to reverse the decline in Indonesian language and literacy skills.
Philosophy, politics and economics study is important. Especially when school test results on civics and citizenship are the lowest ever and academic orthodoxy is that Australia’s political system is based on the illegitimate power of racist settler society.
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