Two of the biggest questions facing the sector as it heads into 2023 are central to the new leadership agenda that has arisen over the last 3 years.  Firstly, they concern how we can best fund our research and support ...

Flinders University has unveiled a new PhD-MBA program to start in 2023 for postgraduate candidates who wish to nurture their career opportunities. Said to be the first of its kind in Australia, the program will enable students to gain skills ...

The University of NSW will deliver a massive 17 per cent stipend increase to research students next year as part of a plan to ensure that they earn the equivalent of a living wage by 2024. Students holding higher degree ...

Australia's universities have faced insurmountable challenges over the past two years. A new book, The New Leadership Agenda: Pandemic Perspectives from Global Universities, interviewed more than 50 university leaders about the unique obstacles they faced during the pandemic. Book author, HEDx ...

Former Victoria University vice-chancellor professor Peter Dawkins has been appointed to lead federal Labor’s new jobs and skills agency.  Skills and training minister Brendan O’Connor named professor Dawkins as interim director of Jobs and Skills Australia, after legislation passed to ...

University of New England's new advisory body has called for increased transparency, staff inclusion in managerial processes and for Chancellor James Harris to resign.  On Friday, more than 500 UNE staff, alumni, and former employees met to vote in favour ...

The Australian Research Council has released a simplified version of the national interest test which will see disciplinary experts assess grant applications, rather than civil servants. Announced on Thursday, the new changes aim to "significantly reduce the administrative burden for ...

Staff from Griffith University have stopped work for a day to protest stalled wage negotiations and job insecurity at the Queensland campus. In late November, university management sent out enterprise agreement offers to staff after back-and-forth talks with the union ...

Deakin uni will face the fair work commission after being accused of alleged "systemic wage theft" by the NTEU. The National Tertiary Education Union claims the enterprise agreement was breached after more than 650 staff across four campuses were paid ...

The majority of Australia's major universities have revealed plans to ditch remote learning and make a full transition to face-to-face classes this year. As of February 2023, staff and students from the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne ...