Eighty per cent of the work of TEQSA and the national VET regulator will essentially be the same, says Denise Bradley.

The Go8 has broken ranks with other university groups in suggesting that base funding shouldn't have an equity component. Improved youth allowance arrangements would be more effective than the government’s equity program – the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program ...

The peak public providers' definition of 'tertiary' is too narrow, VET experts say. The definition of ‘tertiary’ devised by the peak university and TAFE groups – that tertiary education means diploma level and above – excludes the vast majority of ...

The biggest tertiary education shake-up since Dawkins is being conducted in a data-free zone. The federal government is sitting on information about the impacts of its historic shake-up of tertiary education, with at least eight reports - including regular annual ...

A new review will strive for cultural change in universities as well as equity for indigenous students and academics. The federal government has ticked another Bradley box, announcing a review of higher education access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres ...

Universities warn of damage to Australian research reputation if cuts go ahead. Universities Australia has urged the Government to affirm its commitment to public investment in research and innovation as a key plank in the 2011 Federal Budget to ensure ...

Professional organisations could polarise debate on euthanasia if they take a position nursing expert warns Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone, chair of Nursing at Deakin University and an internationally renowned bioethicist says there are good reasons why health advocacy organisations should not ...

Hundreds joined a Sydney protest against threatened cuts to health and medical research funding. Dr Jennifer Byrne was among them. Here she writes why. You can safely say “I know what you did last summer” to Australian scientists, and be ...

Australia’s leading research funders, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), have agreed to changes in how they assess research publications in the grant applications of those with interrupted careers. These were two ...

The University of Technology, Sydney has appointed a builder to provide pre-construction services for world-renowned architect Frank Gehry’s first Australian building – a $150 million business school at the university’s city campus. The plan for the Dr Chau Chak Wing ...