In the past decade, Australia has been successful in expanding the number of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) enrolling in tertiary education. The 2008 Bradley review into Australian higher education highlighted the critical need to expand tertiary educational opportunities ...

All that collected information won’t help with the learning and teaching if it’s not measuring the right indicators. Universities around the world face increasing scrutiny, in response to rising costs and the demand that they differentiate themselves from their competitors. ...

Noted journalist reports to CSU Awarding-winning influential journalist and proud Wiradjuri man Stan Grant has joined Charles Sturt University as its chair of Indigenous affairs. Grant, who has used his media notoriety to help advocate for Indigenous issues such as ...

Many university campuses around Australia are telling students and staff to butt out. But one expert has argued that these blanket bans on smoking might be causing harm. Many institutions, including all in the state of Victoria, along with the University ...

With endless announcements about new multimillion-dollar STEM facilities opening at Australian universities, arts education has finally received some love. It’s $6.5 million worth of love in fact – the price tag of the University of Melbourne's new arts education facility. ...

Enforcement of the 38-hour working week and providing two days a week of subsidised childcare for all parents are among a series of workforce recommendations made by a national network of public policy experts from 16 universities. These recommendations, tabled ...

A centre dedicated to using a person’s own genes to cure their illness will soon be set up at the Australian National University. ANU has received $7.3 million from Australian Capital Territory Health to set up Canberra Clinical Genomics. This centre will work ...

Macquarie University has launched a new online resource to help high school students review for their end-of-schooling exams. HSCStudyLab is modelled on the New South Wales HSC curriculum and, to start with, comprises biology, chemistry and physics modules. Krista Borg, Macquarie director, development ...

The chief executive of the Australian branch of multinational private education firm Pearson will warn an audience of educators that they risk becoming irrelevant in the hot-topic education debate. In his speech to next week’s EduTECH conference in Brisbane, David Barnett, chief ...

An education technologist has argued that the biggest threat to any university isn’t its rival down the road, nor even the one in the neighbouring state or country; it’s the ones that universities don't actually consider competitors. Simon Eassom, global manager of the ...