The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) – Australia's VET regulator for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) – has been attacked for alleged over-spending, non-compliance measures and allowing unqualified auditors to undertake auditing activities. A whistleblower from Education Issues Australia contacted Campus ...

An Indigenous academic has argued that changing the date of Australia Day will not address the deep-seated feelings of loss and sadness that accompany it for many of Australia’s original inhabitants. However, Monash Pro Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Issues Jacinta Elston ...

Long known as the Fourth Estate for its commitment to objectivity and balance, journalism has come under attack at two US universities after protests were reported by student newspapers. According to several experts, the protests, which happened at Northwestern and ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled the details of a university foreign interference taskforce announced during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. “The information that our universities hold is of interest to foreign actors, and therefore ...

The latest Grattan Institute report , 'Risks and rewards: when is vocational education a good alternative to higher education? found that men who scored lower ATARs at school but gained vocational qualifications in engineering, construction and commerce could have higher average earnings than ...

Tensions over China’s controversial Hong Kong extradition law boiled over at one of Australia’s top universities this week, with pro-Hong Kong and pro-Chinese students clashing on the university’s market day. Nilsson Jones, editor of the university’s student magazine Semper Floreat, ...

Established in March 2017 through a bequest by the Ramsay Foundation, the Ramsay Centre’s objective is to reinvigorate the study of Western civilisation in Australia. The Centre aims to have its program taught in two to three universities initially, mainly ...

Eniola David Ibraheem, the second of four children, hails from Nigeria. He initially studied international law and diplomacy, and worked as a mediator in his home country. Now, as a Masters in Social Work student at Monash University, he could ...

Former Labor heavyweight and now ANU chancellor Gareth Evans has used a speech to fellow university leaders to detail ANU’s much publicised struggles with the Ramsay Foundation and call for universities to be vigilant in remaining open to the principles of ...

"The anxiety that I had around transitioning from high school to university was pretty intense. I was the first person in my family to go to university, so I kind of didn't have that background knowledge from my mum and ...