La Trobe University will fork out more than $10m to cover the underpayments of 6700 staff, after investigations found the institution had failed to properly pay employees over a seven-year period. A total 6774 current and former employees from the tertiary institution’s ...

Researchers who developed coffee ground-infused concrete, a rust disease cure for wheat crops and an intellectual-disability friendly playground took home a Universities Australia Shaping Australia award on Tuesday night. The Shaping Australia awards honour university-led innovations in research, teaching and ...

Australia’s universities are some of the most prestigious and highly-ranked in the OECD. Yet the sector is arguably in crisis. It narrowly escaped a potentially devastating hit to the $47.8 billion in annual revenue generated by international education, with proposed international students ...

The University of Wollongong (UOW) has confirmed 91.6 full-time equivalent positions will be cut in a financial restructure, after revealing it offered redundancies to 137 staff in November 2024. The predominantly regional university last year outlined a plan to dissolve ...

The members who will sit on the council overseeing university governance and advising government on "universities being good employers" have been announced. The panel details were released after the first underpayment scandal of the year came from Monash University, which ...

The University of Melbourne will fork out a total of $72m to cover the underpayments of 25,000 staff, after investigations into wage theft claims found the institution had failed to properly pay employees over a 10-year period. The state’s leading tertiary institution’s remediation program has identified ...

Monash University is facing fresh wage theft claims from casual academics, which could force the tertiary institution to pay back millions of dollars. The university will face the Federal Court December 4-6, after more allegations of ­widespread wage theft from casual academics. The National Tertiary ...

The University of Canberra (UC) will offer debt-free undergraduate and postgraduate courses to staff made redundant in its restructure. The university announced in November it would have to make 200 academic and professional positions redundant between December and June 2025 ...

Data collated by the tertiary education union has revealed there are 306 university executives who earn more than their state's premier, even as the sector has cut over 2000 jobs in recent months. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) report ...

Universities are supposed to be places where all students can learn, free from discrimination. A key part of this ideal is academics welcoming all students to study and research, regardless of their racial background. But as our new research shows, ...