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Academics need to get their hands dirty if they want to boost higher education participation among under-represented groups, according to US equity expert Professor Bill Tierney. “We need to rethink and reorganise academic work,” said Tierney, director of the University ...

The Bradley report’s recommendations can deliver the egalitarian higher education system the government says it wants, a national equity forum in Adelaide heard last week. But cultural change will be just as important as funding boosts, equity experts said. The ...

The Bradley report’s calls for massive funding boosts may hit a road block in the Canberra bureaucracy because finance officials are believed to be unconcerned by the level of cross-subsidisation. Bradley’s big-ticket recommendations – a four-year $1.8 billion increase in ...

Victoria University staff vote to restart industrial action Staff at Victoria University voted to restart industrial action, the NTEU announced. VU NTEU branch president Richard Gough said last week that “strikes will commence [this] week and continue for the next ...

A new row has broken out over student unionism, with the Opposition accusing the government of breaking an election promise by imposing a $250 fee on students. “It’s a return to the bad old days of effective compulsory student unionism,” ...

John Mullarvey made an enormous contribution to higher education policy and direction. By Gerard Sutton. For me it all started 20 years ago when a youngish Frank Hambly appointed a young John Mullarvey to the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC), now ...

To achieve advances in indigenous student equity, universities must focus on what actually works, says Marcia Devlin. There is a need for a new paradigm for research and practice in indigenous higher education student equity in Australia. A new focus ...

We must look beyond what works and engage with what equity means, says Trevor Gale. Student equity is a problem. Part of the problem is that Australian higher education is no longer a closed system. It is no longer the ...

The higher education review is a catalyst for the education revolution. It offers a blueprint for a progressive trajectory into a national educational system that could place Australia as a global leader in systems design for social inclusion. It is ...

May 1950-Feb 2009 “Not bad for a boy from the bush with no degree.” That’s how Bob Goddard, previous international director in the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee (AVCC) secretariat, summed up John Mullarvey’s early career in his eulogy. Already a ...