Staff angry at proposed job cuts at the University of Sydney began to dig in last week, with union members protesting outside a meeting of the university senate, and a group of senior academics firing off an open letter to ...

 The now welcome arrival of TEQSA on the beat has come about because the government was prepared to listen to those who work in the sector. In the annals of political discourse, the debate that tracked the formation of a ...

Reactions have been mixed to the announcement that reward funding would be restructured and a discount on HECS fees for maths and science subjects removed in the federal government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook. Maths, statistics and science units will attract ...

Victoria University is the latest institution to confirm job cuts, with administrative positions to be reduced over the next three months, while Macquarie and Sydney universities continue to negotiate with union members. Victoria vice-chancellor Peter Dawkins said in a statement that ...

Universities are wonderful places to be employed and to do really worthwhile work, whether directly in educating students, or doing research and engagement. Why then does research conducted by universities, by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and by independent investigators, ...

The University of Sydney is not the only institution announcing redundancies and budget cuts. Victoria University, La Trobe, Macquarie and the University of NSW have all announced or are expected to announce cuts. Greens education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon said the ...

Increasingly tight budgets mean that spending on technology will be constrained in the education sector over the next 12 months according to leading IT analyst Gartner. But from 2013-2015 the organisation expects a significant uptick, particularly spending on telecommunications and ...

Staff at the University of Sydney have been warned to brace for budget cuts - including redundancies for "non-performing academics" - vice-chancellor Michael Spence has announced in a video statement. Despite a "good year on many fronts" the university needed ...

Claims that Australia’s universities are on the financial rise and running huge surpluses should be treated with caution, says the sector’s peak body, and an attempt by the government to lower hopes for further federal funding. “We think it was ...