Vice-chancellor of James Cook University Professor Simon Biggs has been appointed as the new chair of Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group, to serve a two year term to 2025. He succeeds the former chair, University of Canberra vice-chancellor Paddy Nixon, ...

The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has outlined how its members are tackling COVID-19 in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region while calling on the government for more research funding. The IRU group (comprising seven universities) is focusing on three ...

With the recent release of VCE results, parents across Victoria have been eagerly hoping to find out what their children have achieved at school during the past two years. Isn’t it strange, then, that VCE results provide so little insight ...

A student helping out a struggling classmate might be worried they’re incriminating themselves should draft legislation to prohibit academic cheating services move ahead unchanged. That’s one of the potential problems with the scope of the bill's details spelled out by ...

A Murdoch University professor has criticised schools for encouraging students to choose between a VET or university pathway. Barry Down, a VET and student engagement specialist, says this dichotomy has become unrealistic. "The reality is that society requires smart workers and citizens with ...

The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) wants senators to quash a proposed charge on administering student loans. The group said the cost recovery measure will put Australian universities out of pocket $10 million a year. Should the Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill ...

The world's oldest universities weren't just sites of learning. They were also civic, religious and social institutions. Without Oxford, Bologna and Al-Karueein we wouldn't have modern-day ethics, or defences against bygone empires or the omniscient power of the medieval church. Universities were ...

The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group wants universities to have more say in how they spend their funding dollars. They say that universities only get to fully determine how a fifth of their endowment is spent. Raising the issue yesterday at the House of Representatives Inquiry ...

The federal government has scrapped plans to place a "lifetime cap" on student loans, but has been granted support from the lower house to reduce the repayment threshold. Legislation to lower the repayment threshold from $55,000 to $45,000 has been ...

Conor King, executive director of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU), wants the government to know that universities aren't as cashed up as many assume. Also, he contends, the government's other presumptions on which university funding plans are based are false. For example, although ...