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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 ...

The government plans to push its income support Bill in the Senate early this week, in a last-ditch effort to get the reforms through Parliament this year. The federal government was last week ramping up preparations to push through its ...

VET funding for young Victorians will be fully contestable next year, as the state brings forward its skills reforms to meet its Youth Compact commitments. Victoria will introduce fully contestable VET funding for young students from the beginning of next ...

Does Austrade have what it takes to promote Australia as a world-class research and education destination, asks Dennis Murray. The government’s decision to hand over generic marketing and promotion of Australia’s international education to Austrade is hardly surprising. The cheap ...

There will be no dedicated funding for campus services next year, after the federal government pulled the plug on the proposed amenities fee loan scheme. Universities have no chance of accessing a dedicated funding stream for campus services next year, ...

The federal government has wound back $280 million in tertiary education spending through ‘symbolic’ policy changes. The federal government has quietly canned over $280 million in planned tertiary education spending in policy decisions taken since the May budget. The decisions, ...

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 ...

College ‘appalled’ at Facebook rape site St Paul’s College at Sydney University has said it is appalled by the contents of a pro-rape, anti-consent Facebook site reported in the Sydney Morning Herald last week. The college says it has immediately commenced a ...

Top Digger digs deep in Delhi. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd marked his visit to India last week by announcing the federal government would invest an extra $70 million into scientific collaborations with the subcontinent superpower. Rudd said the government would ...

Victorian VET leads the nation in providing realistic on-campus training opportunities. And the balance sheets prove it. Victorian TAFEs have reinforced their image as the country’s most entrepreneurial institutes, staying well ahead of their interstate counterparts in earning revenue from ...