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Do grads and employers really disparage degrees? Depends on who you ask
2018 is barely a week old, and already there's debate concerning the tertiary education sector: this time, over the results of the 2017 Employer…
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Uni attrition rate stats provoke HESPy reaction
It’s spotlight time for the lengthily-named higher education regulators and advisors, TESQA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency) and HESP…
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Events
Student fee changes up for debate
They were a suitably contrarian trio. Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sophie Johnston, president of the…
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Analysis
IRU says demand-driven uni system working
On the fifth anniversary of the demand-driven university quota system, introduced by Julia Gillard’s Labor government, there are mixed feelings…
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Commentary
Opinion: Unis are doling out degrees but not access to good jobs
While our universities speak of liberalism and the spirit of enquiry, they are using the uncapped, demand-driven enrolment system to…
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Labor promises more money for unis, better co-operation
Federal Labor has vowed to pump billions of dollars into universities, and would work to ensure that the higher education…
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VC Hill calls for unfreezing of sub-degree places
In his first push for policy change as incoming chair of the Regional Universities Network, professor Greg Hill has called…
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Universities step into the unknown
In anticipation of the biggest expansion of higher education in the nation’s history, Universities Australia’s (UA) fourth annual conference was…
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Building supports for all students
A successful UWS assistance program is helping non-traditional students get through the demands of campus life. With the movement of…
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Brand still the main attraction, says Marginson
Prestige will remain the primary driver of student movement in the new Australian demand-driven system, a higher education conference has…
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Sharp spike in student numbers
The number of student places at Australian universities has increased by more than a quarter since 2007, figures released by the government…
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Enrolments ‘capped’ by lack of clinical places
Despite strong demand and new uncapped enrolments, many of Australia’s nursing and midwifery schools have limited their 2012 student intakes…
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Perkins goes to work for regional unis
Dr Caroline Perkins keeps a mental list of the “great initiatives” that help regional universities stay competitive with their metropolitan…
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Poorer universities – and TAFE – at risk in demand system
Australia’s regional and newer universities have been put at risk of extinction by the recently introduced demand driven funding system,…
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Science offers increase
Universities across the country, free to set their own student numbers for the first time under the new demand-driven funding…
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Deregulation has a price
As our campuses begin to welcome the new cohort of students for 2012, tertiary education managers are assessing the dawn…
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Withers warns unis to stay vigilant
Universities must remain vigilant or risk losing the momentum gained by a slew of new policies impacting higher education, says…
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No caps: watch the gaps
Allowing the market to dictate enrolments helps competition but may not always be good for the national interest. The federal…
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Fears that demand could drive job cuts
Staff anxieties at two Sydney universities over the possibility of job cuts in the coming year could be a sign…
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‘Plunder’ of TAFEs will continue
Funding changes that will see courses below bachelor’s degrees removed from the demand-driven system have been cautiously embraced by the…
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