Australian higher education and the world: has the Bradley report got it right, asks Simon Marginson. Are we optimising the global position of Australian higher education? International students are now 26 per cent of all Australian universities students, 20 per ...

We need more deeply understand the complexity of different student contexts and how they play out in modern, tertiary institutions, says Liz Harman. The government focus on students is welcome. In her speech at the Universities Australia Conference on 4 ...

It would be naive to think that challenging the new equity policy environment, and jockeying for position within it, are just political moves. They are also about what equity is and how it can be addressed, says Trevor Gale. In ...

The VET professional will more than ever need to be autonomous, independent, critical, appreciative of the broader social and civic goals of education and training while also being a teacher who is intellectually gymnastic, writes Ros Brennan Kemmis. Discussions around ...

Social inclusion is very much on the radar of the University of Sydney’s vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence, writes Julie Hare. There a saying that vice-chancellors of Group of Eight universities like to drag out when describing their august institutions: elite ...

UK experience shows that scholarships help, but they are not the key to an equitable system, says Martin Harris. When higher fees were introduced in the UK in 2006 for full-time undergraduate students, there was widespread concern that this would ...

Universities always seem to meet government targets, but something, usually quality, gives along the way, writes Jane den Hollander. The vision for Australia where 40 per cent of our citizens are educated to at least bachelor degree level and where ...

Joseph Gora has some suggestions for converting the unread and the unreadable into something to behold. The unit information guide (UIG), or its simpler derivative, the unit guide, is a document imbued with great significance in the wacky world of ...

Australia punches well above its weight in sport by investing in sports we choose to excel at. Higher education should take a leaf from the sporting book. We cannot afford a system in which all universities are effectively comprehensive, says ...

After many attempts, an approach of collaboration and partnership may help Australia strike the right balance in its relationship with its Pacific neighbours right, writes David Lowe. The challenges faced collectively by the nations in the Pacific region are perhaps ...