A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel “ass-ets”. Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week’s work ...

The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...

A uni chief describes the bonus ATAR points scheme offered by the four West Australian public universities as a ‘carrot’ to incentivise senior high school students into taking harder maths subjects. The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin ...

The Go8 has today released an ATAR Transparency policy that it hopes will add clarity to the ongoing debate around university admissions, while reaffirming its support for the system. “We are committed to the Australian Tertiary Admission Ranking (ATAR) as ...

Activists have organised student protests across seven university campuses that will go ahead if these institutions fail to commit to full fossil fuel divestment by the end of this week. Friday, April 15, is the deadline climate activists 350.org have set ...

The top public servant in New South Wales refugee resettlement and recently re-installed Western Sydney University chancellor said the 20 per cent federal government cut to universities would not impede his institution’s efforts to give refugees accessible higher education. Professor Peter Shergold, ...

While Australia has performed solidly in this year’s Times Higher Education rankings of universities aged under 50 – the mastermind behind the list warns Australia’s performance could slip drastically if it doesn’t match the level of investment of its East ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council must lobby government for funding to properly support human medical research ethics committees, an internationally renowned expert has argued. Professor Linda Shields, American Academy of Nursing fellow and Charles Sturt University nursing academic, ...

Federal Labor has rejected the Grattan Institute’s call to lower the HELP repayment threshold to $42,000.   HELP for the future: fairer repayment of student debt, argued for the threshold to be lowered from $54,126 to $42,000 in order to curb ballooning debt from ...

Grattan Institute modelling advocates lowering the HELP loan repayment threshold to $42,000 – calling it an “efficient and fair” solution to curb ballooning debt from unpaid loans. The current threshold stands at $54,126, though the federal Education Department estimates one-fifth ...