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New data shows nine universities in the red as the financial crisis crippled investment funds. Five of the Group of Eight universities posted massive operating losses in 2008, including a deficit of $210 million by the University of Melbourne. The ...

Universities are preparing for dramatic growth even before 2012, but is the government ready or able to pay for necessary infrastructure? There is likely to be significant and dramatic growth in enrolments in at least a dozen universities over the ...

Southern Cross University estimates it will put $500 million into its local economies in 2012. Just two months into the job as vice-chancellor of the sprawling multi-campus Southern Cross University, Professor Peter Lee has commissioned and released a report that ...

The government must consider raising student contributions if it is to meet its key higher education targets and agenda. An increase in student contributions must be considered if universities are to meet the federal government’s participation targets and quality agenda ...

Research minister Kim Carr is says with some notable exceptions, interim compact negotiations are bordering on the bland. Research minister Kim Carr has hit out at universities, saying he wants mission-based compacts to promote radical reform, structural change and active ...

Smaller, less competitive campuses may be the key to success for non-traditional student cohorts. Contrary to common perception, several factors associated with educational disadvantage such as mature age, low socioeconomic status and parenthood, may in fact contribute to success and ...

Monash University has announced plans for major expansion to help meet federal government social equity targets Australia’s largest university Monash has unveiled plans to dramatically increase its student enrolments by 11,000 students – or nearly 20 per cent – over ...

By failing to fully fund the Bradley tertiary education reforms, the government is missing out on an investment return of 15 to 20 per cent. The tertiary education reforms recommended by the Bradley review offer an “unmissable bargain” which Australia ...

Further industrial action is anticipated during November as the National Tertiary Education Union tries to capitalise on a number of agreements that have been reached in recent weeks. Last week, La Trobe University announced it had reached agreement including a ...

There are a few truths that are universally understood in the world of philanthropy and last week Professor Eric Thomas shared his version of them with an intimate gathering of 40 invitees at a breakfast at RMIT. “The first rule ...