The review of learning and teaching has been a great opportunity for higher education but support is needed for it to continue. As a result of the ALTC’s Learning and Teaching Standards project (LTAS), disciplines across Australia have available to ...

Respondents to an ATEM study have called for a “good practice” site to be used for the development of leadership in higher education. By Geoff Scott and Linda McKellar. In 2010, the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM) proposed a ...

One university has outlined its strategic response to making sure their learning and teaching standards stay high. By Jonathan Holmes, Susan Jones and Brian Yates.  The previous two articles in this series considered how learning and teaching networks were assisting ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning to take Macquarie University to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal next week over its refusal to release a final report into a review of its support staff services. Both the NTEU and the ...

The future of the Australian National University’s music school is now being decided, with submissions on plans to cut staff and restructure the degree program closing last Friday. The National Tertiary Education Union has expressed disappointment at the university council’s ...

Opposition is increasing in Federal Parliament to the government’s reforms to vocational education and training. Louis White reports. The Coalition and the Greens are unimpressed with the Gillard government’s reform agenda to develop a more skilled workforce through the use ...

Associate deans and other faculty leaders are important in the disciplined approach to implementing and assessing academic programs. By Jonathan Holmes and Mark Freeman. No one would seriously argue that disciplines shouldn’t be the main driver of learning standards used ...

Hundreds of casual staff at Swinburne University have still not been paid for work they have done this semester, says the National Tertiary Education Union, and there concerns that the problem will occur again next semester. Charlie Saunders, an NTEU ...

Dual-sector University of Ballarat will terminate up to 60 TAFE courses and a large number of staff in the wake of the Victorian government’s plan to slash nearly $300 million from public providers. The university says it is the latest ...

Higher education emerged unscathed from Tuesday’s federal budget but it wasn’t so reassuring for vocational education and training. The budget was more of a mixed bag for VET, said TAFE Directors Australia (TDA). The organisation said national skills had been ...