The University of Sydney is set to undergo four years of reform and renewal. The University of Sydney is set to overhaul its undergraduate degrees, with a specific focus on the first-year experience and graduate outcomes. But it has opted ...

Two recent AUQA reports reveal how public private partnerships in tertiary education can be win-win. Private education and training company Navitas recorded a record profit this year and two recent Australian University Quality Agency reports may provide a small insight ...

ANU’s emeritus faculty counts among its members some of the luminaries of Australian intelligentsia. John Malony was attending the funeral of friend Eugene Kamenka, a retired ANU history and philosophy of science professor, when the idea struck. Looking at the ...

Simon Crean says there is more money in the pipeline for higher education if Labor is re-elected. Federal education minister Simon Crean last week indicated he supported a “substantial” increase in funding for higher education should the government be re-elected. ...

Private RTOs are set to join Canberra’s home-grown university system. Canberra’s home-made university system has notched a few new likely members, with its vocational arm – still a few years from establishment – now expected to hook up with local ...

It’s mostly “me too” on higher education, but fees are emerging as a battle front. The coalition would consider deregulating university fees – as well as reintroducing full-fee domestic undergraduate courses – but has otherwise embraced the ALP’s post-Bradley reform ...

With all other international education sectors now in serious decline, higher education is about to follow suit. Australia’s once indomitable education industry is now in freefall, with new statistics showing the predicted 30 per cent slump in visas for new ...

Tens of thousands of would-be students have to wait over three months just to find out whether Australia will let them in. Over a third of student visa applications aren’t processed within the immigration department’s own timeframe targets, with tens ...

The election has come at just the wrong time for international education. The Coalition has opened up yet another battle front for the besieged international education industry after the Liberal leader, Tony Abbott, turned international students into an election issue. ...