Dan Tehan
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Funding
Social work campaign awaits significant senate decision
The Save Social Work Australia campaign will be anxiously awaiting a decision from the senate today in response to the…
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News
Controversial LANTITE test needs to change, report concludes
An internal government report has called for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) to be held…
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Commentary
Why Dan Tehan should embrace philosophy: opinion
In his Australia Day Address in 2006, John Howard said that Australia’s "dominant cultural pattern comprises Judeo-Christian ethics, the progressive…
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Commentary
Australian universities are in turmoil and that’s not good for VET: Opinion
Following new plans for “job ready” graduates released by the Commonwealth Government, Australian universities are in turmoil. This follows persistent…
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Podcasts
‘An insidious choice’: Humanities Academy president on proposed changes to uni fees – Podcast
CampusReview · 'An insidious choice': Professor Joy Damousi speaks about proposed changes to uni fees - Podcast Education minister Dan…
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Funding
‘This should alarm all Australians’: The Australian Academy of the Humanities and DASSH outline the new funding flaws
Deep concerns were raised last week by the Australian Academy of the Humanities regarding the government’s proposed changes to university…
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Industry & Research
LANTITE activists call for ‘unethical’ and ‘immoral’ test to be scrapped
The alleged shortcomings and unfairness of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) have been highlighted by…
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Funding
New short courses to reskill the nation and ‘drive innovation’ after coronavirus
The creation of 58 short online courses has been welcomed by the Independent Tertiary Council of Australia (ITECA), the peak…
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Funding
Universities help COVID-19 castaways as education minister says there’ll be no emergency funding
Seven universities belonging to the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group have committed to supporting students through the COVID-19 crisis by…
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News
Humanities academy welcomes ARC funding and senate inquiry into nationhood
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has welcomed the government’s $12 million pledge to fund research into Australian society, history…
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News
Bushfire research highlighted in ARC funding announcement
Minister for Education Dan Tehan today announced that the government would fund an early warning system for bushfires in the…
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International Education
First Curtin Indigenous Australian student receives prized New Colombo Plan fellowship
Curtin University has announced its first Indigenous Australian student to become a prestigious New Colombo Plan (NCP) Fellow. Matthew Harris,…
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News
Upfront fee-paying TAFE and uni students may be unprotected after reforms
A statement released yesterday suggests that students and employers who pay the full cost of their vocational education and training (VET)…
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News
Indigenous applications and offers up against an overall downward trend
Fewer individuals applied to universities in 2019, and fewer universities made offers according to the latest 2019 application and offers…
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Funding
We must start listening to the experts: Opinion
I could easily style myself as an education expert: I have the prefix in front of my name that lends…
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News
Tehan details foreign interference taskforce at Press Club
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled details for a university foreign interference taskforce in his address at the National…
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News
Researchers riled by ARC funding delay
The Australian Research Council (ARC) funding announcement delay is increasingly raising concerns among researchers. ARC-funded projects are required to begin research…
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News
‘Contrived, pointless, and a total waste of taxpayer money’: groups respond to freedom of speech review
On Thursday, university personnel, fittingly, exercised their freedom of speech. Responding to the government's announcement of a review into freedom…
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Podcasts
Did Birmo veto grants to avoid being the next Turnbull?
By now, you well know that the former education minster's use of an arcane piece of legislation has caused furore…
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News
VC Spence lauds freedom of speech while USYD continues Ramsay Centre negotiations
One of the universities "most hostile to intellectual freedom" is also, apparently, its defender. In an op-ed published in The Australian…
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Policy & Reform
Labor’s $10 billion-plus promise to prospective uni students
With a looming federal election tipped to go Labor's way, the party is releasing policy specifics. Having birthed the demand-driven system,…
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News
Introducing Simon Birmingham’s successor
The son of a former state Liberal MP (his mother) and a past party vice-president (his father), Dan Tehan has politics…
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