The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has told the Education and Employment Senate Committee that the sector regulator doesn't have the correct functions to address staff underpayments, amid calls it needs more power. Union policy and research officer Kieran McCarron ...

The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Authority (TEQSA) revealed four universities are being investigated for their handling of protests and encampments at the first Quality of governance public hearing. The Australian National University, Macquarie University, the Queensland University of Technology and the University of ...

United States President Donald Trump's first six weeks of his second term has been defined by 76 executive orders, the disestablishment of the national education department and establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). One of the most controversial ...

The Coalition would scrap Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) and have an independent tribunal decide vice-chancellor pay, opposition education spokeswoman Senator Sarah Henderson told universities on Wednesday. Reinstating the 50 per cent pass rate rule and significantly capping overseas students ...

The National Student Ombudsman (NSO) First Assistant Ombudsman Sarah Bendall has revealed details of the 220-or-so student complaints she has received in the first three weeks of operation. Ms Bendall on Monday sat on a Universities Australia Solutions Summit panel ...

The chair of the Australian Universities Accord is to lead the yet-to-be-established Australian Tertiary Education Commission, Education Minister Jason Clare revealed on Wednesday night. His Universities Australia Shaping Australia Awards speech reflected on the 12 months to last February when ...

The 408-page Universities Accord document has shaped the past year of university reform discussions. The document includes 47 recommendations that are expected to take up to 25 years to implement. A Campus Review analysis show that 12 months after it ...

The two new leaders of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) were announced on Tuesday. Professor Krause. Picture: HEDx Avondale University former vice-chancellor Professor Kerri-Lee Krause will start her role as chief commissioner of TEQSA on April 8, ...

The peak body representing universities, Universities Australia (UA), has said the federal government should offer more money and less bureaucracy to the higher education sector ahead of the election due by April. Its 2025 Federal Election Statement, Universities Matter to ...

As we head towards the federal election, both sides of politics are making a point of criticising universities and questioning their role in the community. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused unis of focusing on “woke” issues that “just aren’t ...