Christopher Pyne’s plan to impose fines on universities that overcharge for degrees won’t work and will hit students the hardest, Greens higher education spokesperson Senator Lee Rhiannon said. “It’s a bad policy that would mean that the universities pass those ...

Babies born this year who want to be doctors when they grow up could face a bill of more than $500,000 for their time at university, new modelling shows. That pricetag, in 2015 dollars, includes sharehouse rent during a six-year ...

The Dean of the University of Sydney Business School has called for a change in the business curriculum to tackle gender and ethnic inequalities in Australia. Professor Greg Whitwell said the topic of diversity should be a core part of ...

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has defended a $500,000 higher education information campaign against allegations it had amounted to an expensive and wasteful “flop” with its hotline attracting just 134 calls. Pyne has said the campaign – which comes as the ...

The Abbott government’s controversial university reforms are expected to pass the lower house on Wednesday. After days of MPs offering their views on the revised university deregulation package, debate was adjourned on Tuesday evening after getting through the 50 or ...

Prospective students can now check out how gay-friendly a university is with the launch of the first ever Australian LGBTI University Guide. Produced by the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL) and the Star Observer, the guide rates universities ...

University of Western Sydney vice-chancellor professor Barney Glover has been announced as the next chair of peak group Universities Australia. Glover will take over from professor Sandra Harding, who will step down from the role on May 19. Glover has a background and ...

Calls to scrap the Coalition’s higher education reforms and start afresh have been met with warnings that to do so would jeopardise Australia’s leading global position in higher education in submissions to the latest Senate inquiry into the government’s proposed ...

The peak body representing Australia’s universities has backed proposals outlined in the teacher training report released last week which calls for an overhaul of the system. Universities Australia’s director of strategic communications, Louise Dodson, said the recommendations “provide a nationally ...

Taxpayers, rather than students alone, would be asked to foot the cost of maintaining Australia’s higher-education system under one alternative approach to the government’s proposed deregulated fee system. The proposal was one of many discussed last week at a round table University ...