The transformation of Launceston into an education hub has begun, after the federal government granted $130 million worth of funding to expand the University of Tasmania. The university last year released a master plan for the new Inveresk Precinct, which ...
More »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 Satisfaction Survey. On the one hand, Universities Australia (UA) found the survey of recent graduates and their employers heartening. They pointed ...
More »MYEFO funding freezes ‘actually cuts’: Universities Australia
MYEFO delivered a blow to universities - a lesser one than May's budget - but nonetheless, an affront. Alongside freezing per-student funding for two years, the government intends to cap student loans and demand repayment of them earlier. From 2020, it also ...
More »Universities collectively outraged by MYEFO
What does it take to get higher education cuts through parliament? The government thinks its latest measures – released as part of their Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) – might do it. But universities aren't so sure. A summary of ...
More »Exclusive: higher ed leaders reflect on 2017
In 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States, and not long after, the Mueller investigation began. #MeToo swept the internet and, thereby, workforces, and North Korea scared just about everyone. Domestically, politicians suddenly discovered their foreign ...
More »Education spending ‘incoherent’: Mitchell Institute
An education policy and research body has rebuked the government for its approach to sector funding, calling it "disjointed". Victoria University's Mitchell Institute, in its report, Expenditure on Education and Training in Australia 2017, based its view on 2015-16 federal, state ...
More »An empire of scraps: the university research model
The way university research is measured and rewarded needs to change. Helen Razer has called these times an Age of False Enlightenment, in which our leaders regularly make claims to know what they do not know. We might dub it ...
More »Regional unis request strategic overhaul
Despite rural, regional and remote universities being 'anchor institutions' – the economic and intellectual hearts of their respective towns – they're not recognised as such by the federal government. That's the key message of the Regional Universities Network (RUN)'s new National Regional ...
More »Best frenemies? Gauging the perceived Chinese threat to academia
First it was Mao. Then Deng. Now it's Xi. The President of the People's Republic of China is only the third Chinese leader in history to have his 'thought' incorporated into the country's constitution. But as Jinping's power grows, so too ...
More »Community languages institute gets green light
The University of Sydney is set to embark on its newest project - a research institute for community languages education - after it was granted $7.6 million in funding from the NSW Government. Dignitaries including NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Minister for ...
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