Most universities struggle to knit disciplines together around the major problems of our times, a conference has been told. Researchers and the public service need to find new mechanisms to apply the products of scholarly work to public policy, the ...

We must show why public universities return to the community, many times over, the money spent providing higher education for the nearly one million students now on campus. The Higher Education Base Funding Review offers a rare opportunity to educate ...

The overt remit of TEQSA legislation is quality assurance but the VET mandate was for aggregation, refinement and consistency, not reform. A major cultural shift needs to take place in vocational education training before national regulation can work effectively, the ...

Accounting research should improve accounting practice, rather than simply describe or understand or critique it Accounting research is often considered pointless and irrelevant by practitioners according to leading finance academics and leaders of business who contributed to a book released ...

UQ's Tim Brailsford talks about the challenges of moving from a public to a private university. Bond University is a “pretty special” place but does present its own challenges, says incoming vice-chancellor professor Tim Brailsford. Brailsford is currently the Frank ...

Legislation for a new national regulator passes and the government gets tops marks for genuine consultation. After six months of intense negotiation, the bill to establish the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) passed quietly through Parliament last week ...

For about five years after the fire there wasn’t much reason for smart people to want to come to Mount Stromlo but now there will be an international recruitment drive. The Australian National University is about to launch a worldwide ...

In the face of another anonymous attack, scientists rebrand and stand up with a Respect the Science campaign. Australian scientists have united in a vigorous campaign for renewed respect despite a fresh anonymous threat, this time emailed to the head ...

Australian universities are realising they have to adopt a US culture of philanthropy, Jennifer Bennett finds. The US tradition of donating to your alma mater has never really taken off in Australia yet more and more of our universities are ...

The boomers need to remember what drove the revolt in the Arab world was twitter and facebook not universities One day kids will be driving with their parents past closed universities and the kids will ask ‘what is that joint ...