Cash-strapped Australian graduates will not have to pay back their student debt until they earn at least $67,000 as the Albanese government flags HELP reform as a key election agenda. At a rally alongside South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas this ...
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The federal government has launched a fresh inquiry into anti-Semitism at Australian universities, following months of reported harassment and abuse of Jewish students and staff. On Tuesday, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced that the surge in anti-Jewish racism would be the subject ...
More »UK Universities all want higher fees and funding – but the government may prefer a more targeted approach
Like most of the UK, universities were surprised by the timing of July’s general election. They had no time to influence the incoming Labour government’s policy commitments. Labour’s manifesto acknowledged the financial problems suffered by England’s universities, which are caused ...
More »How the international student cap undermines the Accord’s equity mission
The universities that educate large cohorts of equity groups and skills shortage workers are questioning whether they can continue to target equity groups with less financial support due to the cap on international students. After the third Education Services for ...
More »Student ombudsman legislation introduced to address sexual violence on campus
An independent national student ombudsman will be given sweeping powers to investigate on-campus sexual assault amid startling statistics that one in 20 students had been sexually assaulted in their university career. The new role will allow the ombudsman to recommend a uni take specific steps, and ...
More »ESOS Bill: Senate reopens submissions, sets new hearing date as Bill labelled “dog’s breakfast”
Senators in charge of the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill 2024 have reopened submissions and scheduled an extra hearing data after labelling the legislation a "dog's breakfast" and stating it was not ready to draw ...
More »All health students should have paid prac, sector says
Placement poverty experienced by students studying clinical allied health sciences is being ignored, Australia's council of allied health deans has said in its response to paid work placements being implemented for teaching, nursing, social work and midwifery students. Announced in May, eligible students are able ...
More »Opinion: Embrace change, VCs, or face a Clare and present danger on trust
Vice-chancellors have an image problem, which makes it hard for them to win any argument with Education Minister Jason Clare. Right now Mr Clare is perhaps the most politically successful minister for Australian universities, ever. He has pitched Labor as ...
More »Unis argue intl student case at bill hearing with 45 mins
Universities Australia, the Regional Universities Network and the Group of Eight will each have 15 minutes to make their case at Tuesday's international student cap Senate hearing. The Senate Committee on Education and Employment will decide whether education and skills ...
More »ATEC to administer caps on domestic students with course subsidies, HECS loans
Labor will cap the number of domestic students who rely on Commonwealth financial support in the nation’s universities, in a significant shake up of the higher education sector just a month after the Albanese government moved to limit booming foreign ...
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