The University of Southern California says it may expel students tied to a US college-admissions scam after reviewing their records. The school said it has already "placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged ...

The Victorian government has today unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to ...

With the release of the final recommendations of the Higher Education Standards Panel, federal education minister Simon Birmingham has announced that the government will soon respond to the suggestions, while flagging other policy changes in the works. In its report, ...

Credibility, we are told, is everything. In an era when brand, integrity and trust are highly valued commodities, credibility is indeed a prized attribute, one that conveys an individual’s or an organisation’s authenticity, rigour and viability. Opinion polls rate it ...

University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...

The effectiveness of the ATAR system for qualifying for university places is again in the spotlight after the release of the 82 submissions to the Higher Education Standards Panel, many of which called for an overhaul of the system. The federal ...