As it strong-arms universities to become more transparent about graduate outcomes, the federal government has named the country’s best and worst performing institutions, when it comes to completion rates, for the first time. The new Federal Education Department statistics show ...
More »Hurdle in federal move to cut $3.7 billion from research
The $3.7 billion cut to the Education Investment Fund (EIF), announced in December last year, is unlikely to go ahead as it must pass through a hurdle unanticipated by the Coalition – the Senate. The $3.7 billion was meant to ...
More »Young unis stride towards gender equity
Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...
More »Unis to publish true ATAR cut-offs
Forcing universities to publish the true ATAR cut-offs for their courses and creating a MySchool-style website allowing students to compare the admissions standards of various courses is on the reform agenda for federal education minister Simon Birmingham. Birmingham has announced ...
More »Essay mill stumbles into spotlight while spruiking content
With 'essay mills' now well established in higher education, it seems some firms are now stumbling into the public relations and journalism arena. A "content writer and blogger" approached Campus Review recently with an article he had prepared – unsolicited – ...
More »Funding distortions flagged for fixing by incoming Go8 chair
The incoming chair of Group of Eight has indicated he would like to see the funding distortions affecting disciplines like veterinary science, medicine, agriculture and dentistry to be corrected. Professor Peter Høj, who is also vice-chancellor of the University of ...
More »Expert says VCs shouldn’t have to think like CEOs
What keeps vice-chancellors awake at night? If Dr Julie Rowlands, a Deakin University expert on higher-education governance and author of the book Academic Governance in the Contemporary University, is correct, it’s strategic planning, their institution’s reputation and the budget – ...
More »Loan fee preferable to freezing uni funding: Norton
Introducing a 15 per cent fee for HELP loans is preferable to the federal government choosing to cripple the demand-driven system, the Grattan Institute has said. Andrew Norton, Grattan's higher-education program director, recently completed a report that argues for a ...
More »Trump would be a draw to US for some international students
A survey of 6744 international students has found that 13 per cent are more likely to consider the US as a study destination following the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. Furthermore, 45 per cent are still considering the ...
More »Australia’s tertiary-education cohort tops 2 million
One in five Australians aged 15 to 64, or 3 million people, are enrolled in formal study, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show. The same dataset showed that just under three-quarters of this number participated in tertiary education ...
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