Another wage scandal has rocked the higher education sector, with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) beginning proceedings against private higher education provider JMC Academy in the federal court. The NTEU is alleging that the academy’s “employment practices for its ...

A new inter-disciplinary database will enable researchers across the world to keep abreast of COVID’s latest developments, while also allowing them to contact lead investigators in their fields and seek resources and funding. Created by University of Birmingham experts in ...

In 2020, COVID-19 has revealed that some forms of work, such as health, aged care and social assistance as well as food and service provision, are essential. Higher education is among the services that have remained accessible throughout the crisis, ...

The government’s contentious job-ready graduate reforms are likely to disadvantage Indigenous students, a Wiradjuri man said last week. According to recent data, social science degrees (which are considered humanities courses and will attract the fee hikes of 113 per cent ...

The Save Social Work Australia campaign will be anxiously awaiting a decision from the senate today in response to the government’s job-ready graduates package for higher education. The campaign organisers initially wrote to education minister Dan Tehan about the group’s ...

The government’s job-ready graduate package for higher education is guaranteed to pass the senate after Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff agreed to support it. The package’s new course fee structure will see students in disciplines such as law and humanities ...

CampusReview · The LANTITE report 'was flawed' | Dr David Zyngier Before an internal government report recently revealed that the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was causing significant concern among pre-service teachers and universities, nine focus ...

The Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) report released this week identifies and discusses challenges critical to ensuring Australia’s agricultural industry remains competitive in the future. While Australian farmers have a reputation for being among the most “efficient primary producers in ...

Firebrand Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie is opposed to the government’s higher education funding changes, saying it will disadvantage poor students and poor families. Lambie said the new bill “makes university life harder for poor kids and poor parents” and was ...

An internal government report has called for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to be held at the beginning of education degrees, so students aren’t potentially wasting their time. In comes after revelations that almost one ...