Abena Dove isn’t your typical troublesome university student union president. As president of the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU), she describes her professional relationship with her vice-chancellor, professor Martin Bean, as “incredible". “When I say it to a room of ...

“I went to university and I hated it.” That phrase sums up the no-holds-barred approach of Dr Catherine Ball when she spoke at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology last week. Ball is chief ...

Former federal minister John Dawkins' reforms to higher education are “out of date”, as he freely admitted last year in a letter to the Group of Eight universities. However, as associate professor Julia Horne, university historian at the University of ...

Innovation must not leave the public in the dust, a federal minister has told a conference. The assistant minister for vocational education and skills, Karen Andrews, told the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit on Friday that while universities were ...

At the recent Universities Australia conference in Canberra, an audience of higher education executives were told that they should use their institutions’ research ideas to convert rust belts into brain belts. A month later at Times Higher Education’s Young Universities ...

The most educated people are among the least satisfied at work, a new report from Curtin University has shown. Happy workers: How satisfied are Australians at work?, completed with the help of workplace thinktank Make Work Absolutely Human (mwah.), showed ...

Monash University’s partnership with Melbourne’s Monash Children’s Hospital has been given a $6 million boost to allow medical students to learn within its walls and for clinical trials to be conducted. Monash vice-chancellor professor Margaret Gardner said these funds from ...

The incoming chief executive of TAFE Directors Australia says he will push to get vocational education included on the government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. Craig Robertson said workers will need to be reskilled as old industries perish, and that ...

The educational gap between city and regional is growing, a new report has shown, prompting a call for people in the country to enrol in some form of education. The Regional Australia Institute’s Human Capital Index, released today and compiled ...

Science isn’t the only field with a leaky gender pipeline – economics suffers similar issues. As Danielle Wood, an economist, Grattan Institute fellow and chair of the newly established Women in Economics Network, points out, women account for 35–45 per ...