Prestige will remain the primary driver of student movement in the new Australian demand-driven system, a higher education conference has heard. And that prestige will still be determined by a university’s research outcomes, rather than its teaching and learning quality. ...

The number of student places at Australian universities has increased by more than a quarter since 2007, figures released by the government show.  Some 545,000 students will be at universities in 2012, an increase of five per cent on the 2011 figure ...

Students should be the ultimate drivers of quality at universities, and have a right to demand better standards, former Liberal education minister Amanda Vanstone told the National Tertiary Education Union conference in Sydney last week. “Kids who go to uni ...

Australia’s regional and newer universities have been put at risk of extinction by the recently introduced demand driven funding system, a conference in Sydney has been told. Dr Jamie Doughney, a senior lecturer at Victoria University’s school of applied economics, told ...

It might be one of the best cities in the world to be a student, according to international rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds, but Melbourne is not all it’s cracked up to be say some residents. Melbourne was beaten only by Paris, ...

We are used to seeing our sportspeople achieve overseas – every Olympics miles of newsprint is dedicated to the success of the Australian swimming team, who are usually weighed down by far more gold than much larger countries. But there’s ...

The University of New South Wales needs to be more active in the provision of student care at the Australian Defence Force Academy, the university’s student president says. Osman Faruqi, SRC president at UNSW, which runs ADFA’s academic program, said ...

Universities will be asked to demonstrate they are taking on student input when it comes to the spending of funds collected under the new Student Services and Amenities bill passed recently by the Senate. The National Union of Students will ...

Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans says he will ask Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to revoke a state policy that denies hospital care to pregnant international students. In response to recent news that at least one Queensland hospital is refusing to ...