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The higher education sector was significantly hit by the pandemic. International borders closed down and international student enrolment dropped. Universities’ revenues fell short of budgets and they went into contraction. COVID restrictions and lockdowns also meant that business as usual ...

Pre-pandemic, higher education was Australia’s third-largest export category, responsible for contributing $37.6 billion to the economy in the 2019 financial year, according to Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan. What a difference a year makes. The higher education sector has been ...

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILYSouthern Cross University announced two key appointments touted to help drive the institution’s path to recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. New vice chancellor Professor Tyrone Carlin named Professor Erica Wilson as pro vice ...

This article concerns ‘transparency and accountability’ in the national vocational education and training (VET) sector. The theory is that transparency begets accountability, that stakeholders make better decisions if better informed, and in aggregate this has quality and efficiency benefits. This analysis ...

In this second part in the series on industry views on training product reform, we tackle head on calls by non-industry stakeholders for VET to be more broad-based instead of being specifically job facing. Over the last decade there have ...

A key chemical in marijuana does not impair a person’s ability to drive, an international study involving the University of Sydney has found. Of the two main components in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), CBD does not have an impact on ...

An Australian scientist has made a surprise anti-ageing breakthrough. University of Sydney Associate Professor Tony Cesare said he found “the most unexpected result of my career” in a study of stem cell immortality. The team co-led by Cesare said they have ...

One of the first priorities for the new National Cabinet Reform Committee on Skills, being the old Skills Ministers forum, is to identify a reform direction for Training Product Design and Development. In the first of four articles, I put ...

The world’s top 10 universities offer fewer than average sustainability courses when measured against a pool of global institutions. That’s according to sustainable energy organisation EIT InnoEnergy, which looked at the standalone sustainable educational output of 27 institutions across Europe, ...

Australian researchers will test a way to dole out a vaccine without the need for a needle. University of Sydney researchers were awarded $1.12 million in funding to undertake independent clinical research studies to determine the effectiveness of a postage-stamp-like ...