UPDATE: The students have now been identified as Toben Clements and Jake Rovacsek. Two Curtin University students suffered gunshot wounds overnight in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the US, in what is believed to have been a drug deal gone wrong, the university ...

Nineteen Australian universities have scored places in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of the Top 150 institutions under 50 years old. Sixteen of these universities placed in the Top 100, equaling Australia's performance from a year prior, when the ranking was ...

Higher education costs, for both university and vocational training, have blown out to more than $42 billion, with a quarter of these government-funded HELP loans unlikely ever to be repaid. A 10-year projection for these loans conducted by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates accumulated ...

A mid-term review of the federal government’s five-year skills plan – implemented by federal Labor in 2012 – has concluded that TAFE shouldn’t be deemed ‘just another provider’ within the VET sector. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) commissioned ACIL Allen's Review ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council must lobby government for funding to properly support human medical research ethics committees, an internationally renowned expert has argued. Professor Linda Shields, American Academy of Nursing fellow and Charles Sturt University nursing academic, ...

It was supposed to be one of the quieter moments on the University of Queensland's slate of Feminist Week calendar of events. Madeline Price and her colleagues at the UQ Union (UQU) were coming up with ideas to fill some free space that ...

TAFE Queensland has broken into the applied research sector with a new centre and indicates a future push into formal research – traditionally the domain of universities. TAFE QLD’s RedSpace Centre for Applied Research and Innovation partners with local small ...

Management, leaders and professional staff from universities, TAFE institutes, private providers, professional associations, regulatory bodies and government are encouraged to attend Futureproof 2016, a vital meeting of minds to discuss and debate the major issues affecting the higher education sector. ...

Senator Scott Ryan, the minister for vocational education and skills, has embarked on a six-city roadshow to consult and discuss ways to improve the deeply flawed VET FEE-HELP scheme. Kicking off in Perth, Ryan is visiting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns. ...