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NSW uni’s annual reports show Go8 profits
Annual reports of NSW universities tabled in parliament last week revealed revenue growth for some and losses for others. UNSW…
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Highlights and low points for higher ed in 2025
Campus Review looks back at the developments that shaped the year, and the enduring challenges faced by providers, students and staff.
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Expert council on governance reports
Universities will be required to justify how much is spent on consultants and disclose whether vice-chancellors are drawing multiple incomes…
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HEDx Podcast: Applied learning at Singapore Institute of Technology – Episode 160
Dr May Lim Sok Mui is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Provost of Applied Learning at the Singapore Institute…
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Professor Bell on ANU’s public perception
Australian National University's (ANU) vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has made a statement confirming she plans to stand by her university after…
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Trump cuts research funding to six Aus universities and counting
At least six Group of Eight (Go8) universities have had research grants terminated by the United States amid an anti-diversity…
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HEDx Podcast: ‘Never waste a crisis’: CIO of Arizona State University – Episode 159
Arizona State University (ASU) chief information officer Lev Gonick and Dave Rosowsky, senior advisor to the president of ASU, both…
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WSU vice-chancellor is back in the classroom this year
Western Sydney University (WSU) vice chancellor George Williams’s love for teaching didn't disappear when he became vice-chancellor of his university.…
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Body cams, staff to carry ID, change of culture: TEQSA draft rules for protests, student complaints
Universities will be expected to publish de-identified complaints data publicly, make student complaints processes clearer, and analyse the data twice…
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TEQSA can’t fix wage underpayment, VC pay issues: Governance inquiry
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has told the Education and Employment Senate Committee that the sector regulator doesn't have…
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Four universities being investigated over protests: Governance inquiry
The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) revealed four universities are being investigated for their handling of protests and…
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Trump: Aus research must disclose vaccine, transgender, DEI or China ties
Australian researchers who receive United States funding have been asked to disclose links to China and whether they agree with…
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Marine, geoscience, engineering students get hands-on experience aboard CSIRO ship
Students from 16 Australian universities set sail from Hobart on Saturday for a unique scientific adventure aimed at developing the…
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TEQSA to ask parliament for more power over universities
The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will on Wednesday tell the Education and Employment Legislation Committee it needs…
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La Trobe University uncovers $10m in underpayments to staff
La Trobe University will fork out more than $10m to cover the underpayments of 6700 staff, after investigations found the institution had…
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Mark Scott says international students are “a down payment on the future”
University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott reaffirmed that all international students are welcome at his university during a meeting of…
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Will Trump’s “anti-wokeism” change DEI in Australian universities?
United States President Donald Trump's first six weeks of his second term has been defined by 76 executive orders, the…
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How universities can fix health workforce shortages
Three Australian healthcare experts last week told universities how to solve the biggest challenges and possible solutions to a number…
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HEDx Podcast: What happened at the UA summit – Episode 156
The Universities Australia Solutions Summit brought together university leaders, academics and government together in Canberra last week. The annual event…
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Q&A: Bill Shorten on pay cuts and student happiness
The new vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra (UC) Bill Shorten said universities will never make everybody happy, but they…
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“Unis are not Centrelink offices”: Coalition’s pitch to university leaders
The Coalition would scrap Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) and have an independent tribunal decide vice-chancellor pay, opposition education spokeswoman…
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Ombudsman on what universities can do better now to support students
The National Student Ombudsman (NSO) First Assistant Ombudsman Sarah Bendall has revealed details of the 220-or-so student complaints she has…
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Mary O’Kane to lead ATEC from July
The chair of the Australian Universities Accord is to lead the yet-to-be-established Australian Tertiary Education Commission, Education Minister Jason Clare…
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2024 Shaping Australia award winners announced
Researchers who developed coffee ground-infused concrete, a rust disease cure for wheat crops and an intellectual-disability friendly playground took home…
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HEDx Podcast: The first Indigenous VC of any Aus, NZ uni – Episode 155
Vice-chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology Professor Damon Salesa shares his views about place-based innovation in the context of…
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