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For years, academics have highlighted the lack of research data about the effectiveness of marketised funding approaches for tertiary education. Now the government has some – and it’s sitting on it. The federal government has sat on a year-old report ...

Ranking bodies will be required to consider all public submission and be transparent unlike in 2010 The ARC is fine-tuning the journal-ranking system to improve transparency and prevent the variations in ranking rigour it says occurred as part of the ...

TEQSA could revolutionise global tertiary education à la HECS in the 80s. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency is borrowing from the financial industry’s regulator in designing the world’s first risk framework for higher education, TEQSA’s interim chair told ...

There is an opportunity here, not just to shape the direction of the university as a whole, but to allow Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians to embrace the leadership that Australia needs to take it into the next generations: Professor Shane ...

We need to embrace the potential for innovative, potent and cost-effective pedagogies appropriate to living and working in a digital age writes Jim Taylor Current dialogue surrounding the funding of higher education appears to be stuck in an early 20th ...

The income support review could sidestep the endless argument over regional students’ eligibility for independent youth allowance. Regional students could be offered new Commonwealth loans to help them meet their living costs, with the repayments rolled into their HECS debts, ...

Several Australian Learning and Teaching Council fellows have been interested in how emerging digital technologies can be used as tools for higher education. At a recent higher education conference, veteran ABC journalist Kerry O’Brien gave an eyewitness account of a ...

Employers like dealing with universities but not their graduates, according to a new employer survey. Universities are more satisfactory providers than TAFEs and particularly private VET colleges, with a survey of 669 employers rating universities as best and private colleges ...

A WA town has found a way to get regional students to start university courses, and almost all of them to finish. Just bring the universities to town. A unique community organisation in Western Australia’s Mid West region, which brings ...

The government must fund universities to meet the standards demanded by TEQSA – and an independent body to ensure the funding is adequate – according to UniMelb’s submission to the base funding review. The federal government should establish an independent ...