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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shaken by the COVID-19 induced collapse in international student revenue, campuses at Australian universities are buzzing with ideas about how they will survive in the future. Compounded by the pandemic, our higher education institutions are now even more dependent on ...

Flames that rose from announcements Australian National University and UNSW were planning staff cuts were fanned by news a US university’s Sydney campus was eligible for JobKeeper payments. This week, ANU vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt revealed the “painful” decision to cut ...

Scientists around the globe celebrated news the University of Oxford would restart the trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, but some called for more transparency surrounding the pause while others backed the decision to not detail the illness that prompted ...

Rhodes University in South Africa doesn’t throw its own hat in the rankings ring – but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it there. Drawing on publicly available data, many rankings bodies slot its name into their league tables, possibly ...