Independence – and how to define it – has emerged as a key issue for the income support review. Arguments about dependent and independent Youth Allowance would become a thing of the past, and almost all students would become eligible ...

The  majority of awards, grants and fellowships provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council will be available through the body that has replaced many of its functions, but some cuts will be  made to the number of awards and ...

Top research by the University of Melbourne pushes it high in the latest QS world rankings. The University of Melbourne is the Australian research star in the latest trickle of world university ranking data to be released by Quacquarelli Symonds ...

New York University wants to open a site at a historic site on Sydney Harbour. New York University has confirmed plans to open a harbourside campus in Sydney next year. A spokesperson told Campus Review the new site would cater to about ...

Higher education stakeholders are treading water on Budget eve The fortunes of the vocational education and training sector are expected to shine in an otherwise lacklustre status quo outcome for higher education in this year's federal Budget. Amid the final ...

Open source software has proved particularly popular among universities, as it is generally cheaper to buy and operate than proprietary systems, writes Beverley Head. Flinders and Monash Universities are the latest in a conga line of tertiary institutions making the ...

An ALTC campaigner says the Gillard Government lacks a coherent strategy for higher education innovation. Closure of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) is symbolic of an incoherent strategy for innovation in higher education, one of the campaigners trying ...

Victorian VET was happy with last week’s state budget, but a renowned legal figure has attacked the state’s eligibility rules. Victoria’s Higher Education and Skills Minister, Peter Hall, has kept the faith with the state’s VET sector, with the state ...

Details of the agreement between Macquarie and the NTEU reveal a compromise on core issues to suit the current environment. A conversion clause that allows temporary academic staff to transition to full-time jobs is a key feature of an industrial ...

Last week Chris Evans hinted this could be VET’s year, as far as budget allocations are concerned. And Victoria has beaten the Commonwealth to the punch, with a budget that all but ignores universities In what could be a foretaste ...