At the recent Universities Australia conference in Canberra, an audience of higher education executives were told that they should use their institutions’ research ideas to convert rust belts into brain belts. A month later at Times Higher Education’s Young Universities ...

The most educated people are among the least satisfied at work, a new report from Curtin University has shown. Happy workers: How satisfied are Australians at work?, completed with the help of workplace thinktank Make Work Absolutely Human (mwah.), showed ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has sought to clear the air after it was accused of betraying the 39,000 students who participated in its survey on sexual violence at Australian universities. As reported by Fairfax Media, prominent social commentator and ...

The Council of Private Higher Education has lobbied Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to cut the 25 per cent loan fee imposed on students who enrol in these institutions, painting the issue as a matter of equity. In his letter, COPHE ...

Since the demise of the infamous VET FEE-HELP scheme, there has been a spike in vocational colleges applying to become higher education institutions. The Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA)’s quarterly report shows that 86 prospective providers applied to become ...

The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education. The Regional Australia Institute’s Human Capital Index, released today and compiled ...

Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline – economics suffers similar issues. As Danielle Wood, an economist, Grattan Institute fellow and chair of the newly established Women in Economics Network, points out, women account for 35–45 per ...

The federal government has repackaged and reiterated the National Innovation and Science Agenda that was announced in November 2015, with a National Science Statement delivered by Arthur Sinodinos in a keynote speech today. In his address to the National Press ...

Victoria University has been accused of having a “manufactured deficit” to justify sweeping workforce restructures, a claim that university management has firmly denied. Paul Adams, president of the National Tertiary Education Union’s VU branch, said the 115 job losses that ...

You don’t often see a positive spin on unemployment figures. In this case, however, mums have cause to smile. The OECD has tipped them as the single largest potential contributor to Australia’s workforce. In a report, Connecting People with Jobs, ...