Deakin will let its new undergraduates defer for two years, but it wants them to stay in touch. Deakin University has introduced a two-year deferral option for its new undergraduates, in the face of Youth Allowance changes expected to encourage ...

Australian academics are an unhappy lot, particularly when it comes to their attitudes to senior management, a new paper has found. Rapid and unprecedented changes in the higher education sphere have led to widespread grumbling among Australian academics, threatening further ...

Are the Bradley reforms on track? Depends on which ones you’re talking about. While several of the key policy reform areas as outlined in the Bradley review are on track, the government has lost sight of an overall strategy for ...

Regional hubs could emerge from the government’s new collaborative research program. The federal government’s Collaborative Research Networks scheme offers enough money to turn regional universities – the presumed spokes in the government’s vision for a university research hierarchy – into ...

Having adopted Victoria’s approach to vocational training, federal Labor now plans to do something similar in the school space. A re-elected Labor government would entrench the productivity agenda in schooling by establishing a dedicated vocational stream for Years 9 to ...

There was little criticism to be had when AUQA took its audit team to NIDA Each year 1600 hopefuls apply for one of just 25 places and its alumni are household names, with more than a few Oscars among them. ...

University qualifications just got more valuable than ever, with the annual payoff rising about $3000, while overall salaries stood still. The relative value of university qualifications increased more than ever during the global financial crisis, according to the findings of ...

The Greens are targeting the youth vote by promising an increase in Youth Allowance and more affordable student housing. The Greens have zeroed in on the youth vote promising to tackle student poverty and housing affordability. Greens education spokeswoman Senator ...

The appointments of Denise Bradley and Kaye Schofield as interim chairs of the fledgling higher education and national VET regulators has calmed nerves, but there is a long way to go in a short period of time. The two newly ...