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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The innovation debate has been hijacked by the tech start-up space, the federal assistant minister for industry, innovation and science told a conference. Speaking at the University of New South Wales’s Innovation Summit, Craig Laundy said discourse on how to ...

Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...

The Victorian government has today unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to ...

Deciding on a collective noun for a group of chancellors was one of the pressing issues discussed at the recent Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit. Eventually, Monash University chancellor Simon McKeon, University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese, La Trobe ...

With the University of Sydney strengthening its ties with China, as demonstrated by the opening of its first Chinese address at the beginning of November, USYD’s vice-chancellor has sought to play down concerns that Chinese soft power could be influencing ...