Professor Margaret Gardner is the vice-chancellor of Monash University. In an interview the morning after the 2017 Federal Budget, she spoke passionately and powerfully with Campus Review about the real-world deleterious impact funding cuts to universities will have across the ...

In light of Campus Review's prodigious coverage of the 2017 Federal Budget, we thought it best to find out what role this document plays in the broader realm of Australian politics, and how this has changed over time. Dr Stewart ...

Shortly after treasurer Scott Morrison delivered the 2017 Federal Budget, Campus Review interviewed James Cook University vice-chancellor professor Sandra Harding via email to receive her thoughts. CR: How do you think the changes to funding for higher education will impact ...

It is that time of the year. Yes, it is Budget time. The time of the year when our elected representatives think we all sit around the wireless in front of the log fire listening to the short-wave signal from ...

On the fifth anniversary of the demand-driven university quota system, introduced by Julia Gillard’s Labor government, there are mixed feelings about its efficacy. On the one hand, Conor King, executive director of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU), claims it’s a ...

The Higher Education Reform Package report, released on 1 May 2017 by education minister Simon Birmingham, has already generated a lot of heated commentary from both sides of the debate. With the Coalition's previous higher education reforms – spearheaded by then ...

Universities Australia has told the federal government that “enough is enough” when it comes to the shrinking public pool of funds for the sector. Releasing a UA analysis that showed universities and students have already contributed $3.9 billion to rein ...

Professor Sue Thomas, University of New England provost and deputy vice-chancellor, is to be the next chief executive of the Australian Research Council (ARC). The announcement was made by federal education minister Simon Birmingham. “Professor Thomas is an experienced university ...

The federal government’s changes to 457 visas are likely to pass the Senate despite moves by the Greens to establish an inquiry to into the new policy. Sarah Hanson-Young, the Greens spokesperson for finance, trade and education, said the Greens ...

The sandstone universities have warned that brilliant minds could be locked out of Australia because of the abolition of the 457 visa. In a letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the Group of Eight lobby group representing the Universities of Sydney, ...