Helping qualified foreign students who lack great wealth earn degrees in Australia will have benefits for our sector. It is just over 25 years since the publication of the landmark report on equitable access to Australian higher education, A Fair ...

An MBA student at the University of South Australia and his brother-cum-business partner have won the Brancott Estate Winexplorer Innovation Challenge, beating out over 100 other entrants to the $35,000 prize. This competition tasks viticultural entrepreneurs to come up with a novel ...

If the peak body for group training organisations gets its way, the upcoming federal Budget will contain proposals to run all school-based apprenticeships through group training. Group training is an employment arrangement whereby a GTO recruits apprentices, and places them with host ...

Australia has placed No. 12 on The Nature Index's ranking of a country's universities' contribution to scientific scholarly journals. The University of Queensland was Australia's best-performing institution. The Nature Index surveys 68 "high-quality" publications across a calendar year, scoring universities ...

A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel "ass-ets". Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week's work ...

Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...

The Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology is officially opened. A video posted by Patrick Avenell (@patrickavenell) on Apr 19, 2016 at 4:52pm PDT The University of Sydney welcomed the minister for international development and the pacific, Senator Concetta ...

One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has found. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...

The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...

TAFE NSW needs to amp up its efficiency to remain competitive in the growing vocational education sector or face financial losses, a report says. The Boston Consulting Group's report into the state's Vocational Education and Training (VET) market found TAFE ...