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, ...

Professor Jane den Hollander’s review of the Australian excursion to India is of great optimism and vigour, with no disappointments from the trip. Of the many new deals – forged by politicians and vice-chancellors – most focus on international education ...

“I went to university and I hated it.” That phrase sums up the no-holds-barred approach of Dr Catherine Ball when she spoke at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology last week. Ball is chief ...

Former federal minister John Dawkins' reforms to higher education are “out of date”, as he freely admitted last year in a letter to the Group of Eight universities. However, as associate professor Julia Horne, university historian at the University of ...

Innovation must not leave the public in the dust, a federal minister has told a conference. The assistant minister for vocational education and skills, Karen Andrews, told the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit on Friday that while universities were ...

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 ...