Growing up in 1960s Melbourne, I was given my first real administration position at my primary school as ‘milk monitor’. It came with responsibility for ensuring the milk bottles were brought in from the sun in time for recess each ...
More »Four Aussie unis get top 50 nod in ranking of scientific papers
Four Australian universities have been named in the top 50 in a world ranking of scientific papers – one for the first time. National Taiwan University's Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, hosted by professor of library and ...
More »The future of university teaching: opinion
The COVID-19 pandemic led to higher education being moved en masse to remote and online learning in a compressed timeline. Limited returns to on-campus learning are evident depending on disease outbreak levels and health advice in local areas, but the ...
More »Budget 2020-21: the sector reacts
The injection of an additional $1 billion for university research was the big-ticket item for higher education in last night’s Federal Budget. Announcing the education measures in the 2020-21 Budget, Minister for Education Dan Tehan said education would be critical ...
More »Universities thrown modest budget lifeline
Universities hammered by coronavirus border closures will be thrown a lifeline in next week's federal budget. Education Minister Dan Tehan has promised an extra $326 million to provide more domestic student places. The money is expected to cover 12,000 new ...
More »Proposed higher ed reforms: Which unis win and which lose revenue?
The University of the Sunshine Coast's coffers will be hardest hit by proposed changes to higher education funding, with the institution facing a loss of over $31 million a year. That was one of the surprising findings from new analysis ...
More »Senate committee report backs uni fee reform
A senate committee report has recommended the government’s job-ready graduates bill be passed with the contingency that it is reviewed after two years. The committee’s chair, Liberal senator James McGrath, wrote that the bill will “deliver policy and funding certainty for the sector”. But Greens senator ...
More »Who should be at the front of the vaccine queue? Aussies have their say
Australians want frontline nurses, paramedics and aged care and disability workers to be first in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab. That was one of the findings of an Australian National University survey that sought out attitudes of more ...
More »Professor banned from China, says it sends a ‘chilling message’ to scholars
One of the two Australian scholars banned from entering China said the move sends a “chilling message” to western society. Professor Clive Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University, and Alex Joske from Australian Strategic Policy Institute, both ...
More »University research to lose estimated $7.6b, 11 per cent of workforce by 2024
Australian universities face a research support shortfall of up to $7.6 billion in the next five years, a new report says. The prediction comes with the warning that, as a result, the sector will lose between 5,100 to 6,100 research ...
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