The authors of a new report indicating that Australian universities are using billions in teaching revenue to subsidise research have questioned the benefit to student learning or services. The report, The Cash Nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities, released ...

A report for the sector’s peak body echoes findings that universities are a smart investment. Last week, The Economic Contribution of Australia’s Research Universities – the UNSW example, written by Deloitte Access Economics for the University of New South Wales, argued ...

Regional universities have a huge role to play in the federal government’s innovation agenda, the vice-chancellor of the University of New England has said. The push for an innovation nation is one of the hallmarks of the Turnbull Government and universities ...

A recent federal government of higher education policy under the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull has injected optimism into the national debate but university leaders must bring the public with them in the push for reform. That was the message from Go8 chief executive ...

Prepare for deregulation – that is Hobsons message for universities in a new report. While the Coalition has pledged to place deregulation on the back burner until 2017 at the earliest, the new report Value of a Degree from Hobsons priced how much ...

The time is now for government to put significant funds into universities, the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales has said. A report from Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Contributions of Australia’s Research Universities – the UNSW example, ...

Information on how and where funds are spent in universities must be more open to the public, the OECD has said. In his speech to the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, Dirk van Damme, head of the innovation and measuring progress ...

Universities Australia has called on politicians to end a “legislative impasse” that the peak body argues has left the sector in “funding limbo” without a clear vision for the future. In a speech at the National Press club in Canberra ...

Public universities must broaden their funding base to thrive and survive, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, has said. Nicholas Dirks, whose institution was ranked as the top public university in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said government ...

The Turnbull administration has put the Coalition’s higher education reform agenda on ice. Education Minister Simon Birmingham announced the government would not seek to enact any reforms to the sector until 2017 at the earliest. Speaking on Thursday morning at ...