The full-time employment slump for those who have recently graduated from postgraduate degrees may have stabilised, new figures from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) have shown, but there’s still a stark gender gap in starting salaries. GCA’s Postgraduate Destinations 2015 report ...

More and more universities are operating overseas, which puts a premium on navigating the often murky waters of protecting copyrights in foreign lands. Tertiary education is increasingly a global enterprise. International students roam the planet to find the best course, ...

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 ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has today unveiled an Australian-first survey into the experiences of sexual harassment and assault by students at Australian universities. The survey is being conducted at the behest of Universities Australia. This survey is the latest ...

In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite ...

Australia’s immigration detention centres are many things, divisive being one. This week, the nation watched as guerrilla protestors crashed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s first major economic speech since the federal election. One stormed the stage, holding a sign directed at news ...

Who is more qualified to tackle climate change, politicians or high school students? The answer may depend on which elected official you’re referring to. But the Australian National University’s Ian Chambers, a senior researcher at the Crawford School of Public ...

With the federal election over, it’s time for action and implementation; that means the right ministry, and dollars to spend. The recent federal election and swearing in of a new ministry serve as a reminder to international education stakeholders that ...

Last Christmas, 900 academics signed a letter, addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, calling for the immediate release of asylum seeker children in detention. Eight months later, this movement’s ranks have doubled. Now they’re calling for all immigration detention centres ...

The Australian National University vice-chancellor, professor Brian Schmidt, has thrown his support behind academics’ calls for a formal treaty to deepen the economic relationship between Australia and China. These proposals are tabled in the Australia-China Joint Economic Report, a joint ...