Universities have welcomed and rallied behind a political consensus for the need to foster innovation, though there are still disagreements over how it can be achieved. The Go8, Innovative Research Universities and the Regional Universities Network have all welcome the importance ...

Information on how and where funds are spent in universities must be more open to the public, the OECD has said. In his speech to the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, Dirk van Damme, head of the innovation and measuring progress ...

Universities Australia has called on politicians to end a “legislative impasse” that the peak body argues has left the sector in “funding limbo” without a clear vision for the future. In a speech at the National Press club in Canberra ...

Public universities must broaden their funding base to thrive and survive, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, has said. Nicholas Dirks, whose institution was ranked as the top public university in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said government ...

The Turnbull administration has put the Coalition’s higher education reform agenda on ice. Education Minister Simon Birmingham announced the government would not seek to enact any reforms to the sector until 2017 at the earliest. Speaking on Thursday morning at ...

The Go8 has lashed back against accusations that its research funding proposal is unfair and self-centred. The group of large Australian universities is urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to fix the country’s research system by limiting which projects gain access to taxpayer funds ...

Labor’s new higher education policy should not wipe the HELP debts of STEM graduates, a policy expert has claimed. In his mixed critique of Labor’s new policy, Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, said ridding 100,000 ...

A Labor government would increase the number of students completing their university studies by 20,000 each year from 2018, as part the party’s new higher education policy worth more than $2.5 billion, education spokesman Kim Carr announced. Carr said that ...

New Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has raised the possibility of further concessions by the Coalition in its pursuit of higher education reform. Speaking a day after the announcement of sweeping changes to ministerial oversight of the Department of Education and Training as part of a ...

The federal government may soon begin recouping millions of dollars in unpaid HECS loans following the introduction of legislation that would force many overseas-based Australian graduates to make repayments. Under long debated existing laws, Australians living and working overseas are ...