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 Satisfaction Survey. On the one hand, Universities Australia (UA) found the survey of recent graduates and their employers heartening. They pointed ...

It’s spotlight time for the lengthily-named higher education regulators and advisors, TESQA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency) and HESP (Higher Education Standards Panel). First, TEQSA released first-year university attrition statistics. Now, HESP is commenting on them, as well as ...

They were a suitably contrarian trio. Professor Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Sophie Johnston, president of the National Union of Students, and Andrew Norton, higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, graced the stage at the ...

On the fifth anniversary of the demand-driven university quota system, introduced by Julia Gillard’s Labor government, there are mixed feelings about its efficacy. On the one hand, Conor King, executive director of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU), claims it’s a ...

While our universities speak of liberalism and the spirit of enquiry, they are using the uncapped, demand-driven enrolment system to churn students through their packed faculties, leaving thousands to graduate onto the dole with high HECS debts. Law graduates are ...

Federal Labor has vowed to pump billions of dollars into universities, and would work to ensure that the higher education and VET sectors act cohesively if elected. Shadow education minister Tanya Plibersek said Labor would invest billions of dollars in universities and schools. ...

In his first push for policy change as incoming chair of the Regional Universities Network, professor Greg Hill has called for sub-degree loans to be included in the demand-driven system. Hill, who is vice-chancellor of the University of the Sunshine ...

In anticipation of the biggest expansion of higher education in the nation’s history, Universities Australia’s (UA) fourth annual conference was dominated by discussion about the new demand-driven system.  The impact of the reform on universities and students cannot yet be ...

 A successful UWS assistance program is helping non-traditional students get through the demands of campus life.   With the movement of higher education from an elite to a mass system, precipitated in part by the setting of governmental targets for both ...

Prestige will remain the primary driver of student movement in the new Australian demand-driven system, a higher education conference has heard. And that prestige will still be determined by a university’s research outcomes, rather than its teaching and learning quality. ...