The higher education system in Australia is changing at a rapid pace. Since the Review of Higher Education chaired by Professor Denise Bradley delivered its report in December 2008, the Federal Government has announced and implemented a range of structural ...

Despite numerous reviews, taskforces and summits, including a so-called education revolution, critical problems persist.  So what’s changed? Certainly not government attitudes to funding with universities bracing for the onslaught of uncapped Commonwealth-supported places and Australia still struggling in just about ...

More on Over to You  Professor Sandra Harding, vice-chancellor of James Cook University predicted life in universities, for those at the coal-face and for those in leadership and management roles, would be challenging, profoundly rewarding – “and not for the faint-hearted”. ...

A Liberal senator’s motion for an inquiry into university funding was rejected because it was premature and lacked scope, according to Greens Senator and Higher Education spokesperson Lee Rhiannon. Opposition education spokesman Senator Brett Mason last week moved that the ...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, bumped some Australian universities up a few places and dropped others (see Campus Review Online August 15 ). Last week the Good Universities Guide, the annual directory of Australian ...

It only takes a few seconds of conversation with Associate Professor Roy Tasker to see the enthusiasm that has won him the Australian University Teacher of the Year Award. Tasker, a chemistry professor at the University of Western Sydney, was ...

Those attending the Opera House awards ceremony loudly cheered outgoing ALTC CEO Dr Carol Nicoll and teacher-of-the-year winner Associate Professor Roy Tasker (pictured), his predecessor Dr John Minns from the ANU, as well as for the dozens who received teaching and ...

 As the inaugural chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Nicoll will lead four other commissioners — also announced last week. Together, they will administer the statutory body’s new powers over some 190 providers, starting January ...

"Do you have a disability?" This is one of the first things a student is asked at enrolment. Tick yes and a world of help opens, from special consideration and exam aids to assistance with building access.  But students with ...

Regional universities with ambitions to expand their research will find it increasingly difficult to shake their reputation as a “teaching-only” sector, says Southern Cross University vice-chancellor Professor Peter Lee. Lee told a recent regional tertiary education conference regional institutions were ...