Business leaders told a forum that industry still needs humanities graduates. Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott said many people in Western countries are anxious, disengaged and frustrated, and now “question globalisation, migration, innovation and the value and virtues ...

Four experts now have the onerous task of sifting through more than 1200 submissions made in response to the federal government’s higher-education discussion paper that was released on Budget night. Andrew Norton, the Grattan Institute’s higher-education program director; Mitchell Institute ...

Former prime minister John Howard has been sarcastically labelled “a cracker of a role model” by University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor professor Jan Thomas. This was in response to Howard’s comments at the National Press Club in September, where he ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert has argued La Trobe University’s reputation could be damaged by what he called the “academically irresponsible” conduct of its researchers working for the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published ...

A United Nations-backed coalition of world leaders, Nobel laureates and international business figures has called for a massive expansion of formal education in poor nations, so as to prevent unrest. The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world, ...

The full-time employment slump for those who have recently graduated from postgraduate degrees may have stabilised, new figures from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) have shown, but there’s still a stark gender gap in starting salaries. GCA’s Postgraduate Destinations 2015 report ...

The University of Technology Sydney has indicated it will commit to fossil fuel divestment by the end of the year. In a public University Council meeting, acting chancellor professor Brian Wilson responded to a question asking if UTS would commit ...

Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students? The answer may depend on which elected official you’re referring to. But the Australian National University’s Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public ...

Last Christmas, 900 academics signed a letter, addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, calling for the immediate release of asylum seeker children in detention. Eight months later, this movement’s ranks have doubled. Now they’re calling for all immigration detention centres ...

The Australian National University vice-chancellor, professor Brian Schmidt, has thrown his support behind academics’ calls for a formal treaty to deepen the economic relationship between Australia and China. These proposals are tabled in the Australia-China Joint Economic Report, a joint ...