The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which hosts research into exotic livestock diseases, is just one facility flagged for upgrade under the government’s new National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. In it, chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel, the Roadmap’s chairman, identified nine research ...

Unlike other higher education divisions, the VET sector has largely embraced the 2017 Budget, which endows the sector with $1.56 billion worth of funds. Most of this money will be used to create 300,000 new apprenticeships in high-demand fields like ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has shown that public VET spending has declined to its lowest level in 10 years. Expenditure on education and training in Australia showed that total taxpayer spending is now at $5.7 billion, ...

Senior university figures, along with federal education minister Simon Birmingham have been gathering in Melbourne this week to discuss how philanthropy can be increased and utilised as a financing option by higher education providers. As it stands, the Commonwealth – ...

The University of Tasmania has received a $2 million boost to an upcoming performing arts centre, with the potential for an extra $3 million to be thrown in the mix. The philanthropic Potter Foundation has pledged the funding for the $90 ...

The Australian Research Council has allocated $416.6 million for 989 new research projects in the latest wave of federal government research funding. Monash University was the biggest winner in this round, with $47.9 million to be pumped into its coffers for ...

The Australian National University has offered its School of Music a $12.5 million boost after admitting mismanagement allowed “distrust and emotional stress to fester” within the faculty. This week, ANU released its final report into the school, written by professor ...

Tertiary education needs a transparent and independent federal financing body to ensure funding is allocated on the basis of a solid evidence base, a new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued. A New System for Financing Australian Tertiary ...

Following two sightings of Albert Einstein’s fabled gravitational waves this year, the Australian Research Council has allocated $31.3 million for new work in this field. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGRav) will be hosted by Swinburne University of Technology. ...

A survey shows that while most parents intend to save money for their children’s education, only one-third follow through – and most believe the federal government should help. The Australian Scholarships Groups (ASG) surveyed 1000 parents. ASG found that while 93 per cent of ...