Australia’s tertiary regulator has flagged an increase in online contractors amping up advertising for illegal cheating services. In a statement, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) said the return to face-to-face learning had seen material promoting “assignment help” ...

An investigation into Perth’s Murdoch University by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) has resulted in the institution having its operating licence renewed for only four years rather than the customary seven.  However, Times Higher Education (THE) has ...

Australian higher education students will be afforded more choice after one new university and three university colleges were approved by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Authority (TEQSA). The NSW-based Avondale University College will be Australia’s first new university in ...

Australian’s higher education regulator has awarded SAE Creative Media Institute Self Accrediting Authority (SAA) status, allowing the institute to accredit programs up to degree level across the creative arts and information technology fields. The decision, which was made by the ...

The two regulators of Australia’s higher education sector and vocational education, skills and training sector are being urged to limit bureaucratic red tape and align their regulatory standards. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is the regulator for ...

Australia’s university regulator, Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA), has released a resource to assist universities fully migrate to online learning, particularly independent providers. According to TEQSA, the program has been developed to “assist the sector’s rapid transition to ...

A Seventh-day Adventist higher education provider in Lake Macquarie, NSW, has become Australia's first “university college”. Founded over a century ago, Avondale College of Higher Education had its new category status approved late last month by the federal government’s Tertiary Education ...

The inaugural report into the risk factor of Australia’s higher education sector has just been released, with the overwhelming majority of providers posing a low to moderate risk to students. The Tertiary Educations and Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA) grouped providers ...

Charles Sturt University’s VC has assured students that it’s “business as usual” on site after the story of its conditional registration renewal spread. In April this year, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) confirmed CSU's registration for a period ...

Unlike banks such as Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), failing UK universities won't have it easy if they're near collapse. Announcing this at Wonkfest – a higher education festival in London – Sir Michael Barber, the head of the ...