US student leaders lash Aussie unis over campus anti-Semitism
Jewish leaders from two top US universities have issued a stern warning to Australia’s tertiary institutions following a student general meeting at Sydney University.
Education
Complex diagnosis: Mum says son’s suspension discriminatory
A mother has taken a Sydney Catholic school to court for suspending and later expelling her child after he allegedly struck a student with a pencil.
Faith leaders concede need for bipartisan deal for bill passing
Faith leaders have waved the white flag on the prospect of passing a religious discrimination bill without bipartisan political support.
The secret life of our ‘screenagers’ revealed
An alarming insight into the habits of Australians shows boys hooked on video games and girls exposed to some of the world’s worst cyber-bullying. Parents face a risk of ‘rebellion’.
Jason Clare’s ‘dollars ‘n’ sense’ drive for schools
Billions of dollars in missing ‘Gonski funding’ will flow into public schools from next year as the Albanese government fast-tracks education spending and embraces Noel Pearson’s explicit teaching reforms.
Student activists face disciplinary action for office ambush
Anti-Israel protesters at the University of Melbourne have been issued with misconduct notices more than six months after storming the office of a Jewish professor.
Graduate hiring slumps in 2025
Employers appear to have cut recruitment of university graduates and apprentices over the past year, a new analysis shows.
Jewish groups slam uni response
Jewish groups have accused Melbourne’s top universities of ‘whitewashing’ anti-Semitism on campus, slamming Melbourne and Monash’s latest annual reports as ‘evasive platitudes’.
State union blocked from pay talks ‘after promise broken’
Queensland’s alternate teachers’ union say they have been shut-out after enterprise bargaining negotiations, after claiming they were promised to be given official trade union status prior to the election.
Cancelling student debt is nothing but a colossal $16bn waste of taxpayers’ money
The academic frog is in the productivity pot and the water is simmering. Universities cannot keep doing what they have always done and demand more public money to do it.
Ex-PwC partner fronts ICAC
A former PwC partner says she was ‘never friends’ with ex-NSW education infrastructure boss Anthony Manning who is under investigation by the corruption watchdog.
Why education is crucial to economic reform
Fixing the flawed curriculum is the final piece of the education puzzle for federal Education Minister Jason Clare.
Catholic Uni chief wins $60k pay rise
A $60,000 pay rise has been handed to the beleaguered vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, Zlatko Skrbis, after he delivered a $38m financial surplus on the back of rising international student enrolments.
‘Underpants and angst’: details emerge of academic’s legal fight
A former University of Tasmania executive says he ‘experienced sensory overload’ due to autism during a meeting, but the university says he behaved inappropriately, which in part led to his termination.
Get kids back to class: principals plea to parents
Rising truancy rates have prompted a plea from principals to get their kids to class instead of ‘sitting at home watching TV’.
JCU discovery buoys coral survival rates
New James Cook University research reveals similarities between growing coral and growing plants, which could prove crucial in the fight to protect the reef.
‘Job-ready Graduates’ set to be dumped
As the re-elected Albanese government doubles down on education reforms, the Job-ready Graduates package will be put on the chopping block.
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.
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.
Coalition to teach kids how to behave
The Coalition has promised to teach students good manners and respect as part of a ‘commonsense curriculum’ for schools that focuses on back-to-basics teaching.
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.
Pearson criticises mandatory teaching of Indigenous issues in every subject
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has called for a simpler national curriculum: ‘How the hell did they come up with this?’
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.
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.
Think smaller to deliver a bigger economic bang for $40bn taxpayer bucks
Government, universities and businesses spend $40bn on research and development into products and services with mixed results. The solution may be to think small.
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.
Censor OKs Gender Queer comic for teens
Australia’s censor has approved a comic book that illustrates sex and masturbation, after a two-year legal dispute and a court-ordered review.
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.
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