A learning and teaching leadership project is a step closer to giving the higher education sector the resources it needs for communities of practice (CoPs). Funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), the two-year project has released the results ...

A newcomer joined the list this month by giving an old favourite a final push. The ALTC, the Australian Learning and Teaching Council was replaced by the OLT, (Office of Learning and Teaching) which will be run out of the ...

Wide-scale legislative reform regarding regulation of the not-for-profit sector will have significant implications for higher education entities. Public universities in Australia operate as not-for-profit institutions and are endorsed as charitable institutions, which entitles them to access tax concessions. Many subsidiaries ...

Union reps are gearing up for a fight against the University of Sydney’s planned job cuts, with 340 positions to go across administrative and academic areas. National Tertiary Education Union branch president Michael Thompson attacked the universities approach to move straight ...

The incidence and severity of mental illness amongst international students in Australia are growing, according to a new case study to be presented this week. The study, which focuses on Chinese students due to their high numbers here, has found ...

The Illawarra region of NSW will soon be at the forefront of Australian education in India, with plans to start training workers in the state of Gujarat. It was announced last week that Illawarra Institute of TAFE and the University of ...

Staff at the University of Sydney have been warned to brace for budget cuts - including redundancies for "non-performing academics" - vice-chancellor Michael Spence has announced in a video statement. Despite a "good year on many fronts" the university needed ...

A Malaysian couple obtaining PhDs from Monash University has struggled to obtain maternity care in Australia.  It was only after traipsing to a sixth public hospital in Melbourne that international students Shamsul Mohideen and his wife, Azleena Mohamad, were finally ...

Claims that Australia’s universities are on the financial rise and running huge surpluses should be treated with caution, says the sector’s peak body, and an attempt by the government to lower hopes for further federal funding. “We think it was ...

The international education sector has a tendency to “slip through the cracks” in this country, and that’s something that the International Education Association of Australia’s new chief plans to change. Phil Honeywood, IEAA’s new chief executive, started in the job last ...