Universities say the government was right to delay performance funding. The government was justified in its budget decision to defer $95 million of performance funding promised as part of the mission-based compacts, universities have conceded. The funds – $47.5 million ...

A budget reduction to early HECS repayment incentives – unexpected, unlike the halving of the up-front payment discount – will help the government save almost half a billion dollars. On top of the halving of the 20 per cent discount ...

There are no tribal leaders at the University of Wollongong, Annette Blackwell finds Gerard Sutton can deliver a tough message with soothing ease. The ease comes from a combination of personality and a working lifetime deeply immersed in the institutional ...

Faster visa processing and better ability to facilitate the settlement of newcomers needed to attract students to Australia, Arab council hears. New Zealand seems to have captured its share of the international vocational education market – possibly at the expense ...

Overall universities with campuses in rural and regional areas welcomed the budget provisions which they saw as government honouring commitments made in the 2009 budget. Doubling of regional loading, $500 million in the next Education Investment Fund (EIF) round and ...

In 2011 science will be remembered more for its ability to mobilise researchers and the sick and less for its prominence in the budget papers writes Anna-Maria Arabia. Perhaps it is optimistic or even naive to think that in a ...

Given there was bipartisan support for the recommendations, TEQSA may now be established by federal parliament in time to meet the government's July 1 deadline. Higher education leaders across the sector have welcomed last week’s Senate Committee recommendations for TEQSA, ...

Evans brings in HEFCE executive to help with transition of Australian teaching and learning programs to DEEWR An international expert has been enlisted to assist in the transition of programs from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) into DEEWR. ...

This wasn’t really VET’s year, budget papers suggest. The federal government nominated its $3 billion Building Australia’s future workforcepackage as the centrepiece of last week’s budget. But an analysis of budget commitments suggests the real VET windfall was somewhere between $255 ...

Australian students want better income support, but the government doesn’t want to spend any more money. HECS for living costs could meet both objectives, according to new modelling. The federal government could entice as many as half a million more ...