The National Student Ombudsman (NSO) First Assistant Ombudsman Sarah Bendall has revealed details of the 220-or-so student complaints she has received in the first three weeks of operation. Ms Bendall on Monday sat on a Universities Australia Solutions Summit panel ...

The chair of the Australian Universities Accord is to lead the yet-to-be-established Australian Tertiary Education Commission, Education Minister Jason Clare revealed on Wednesday night. His Universities Australia Shaping Australia Awards speech reflected on the 12 months to last February when ...

Researchers who developed coffee ground-infused concrete, a rust disease cure for wheat crops and an intellectual-disability friendly playground took home a Universities Australia Shaping Australia award on Tuesday night. The Shaping Australia awards honour university-led innovations in research, teaching and ...

A Strategic Examination of Research and Development review is to evaluate how to maximise Australia's existing research and development (R&D) spend, and convince industry to adopt innovation. The review, announced in the 2024-25 budget, is to be led by the ...

Skills, training and educator bodies have backed the Prime Minister's Future Made in Australia Act that will grow Australia's in-house manufacturing capabilities. The Prime Minister last Thursday outlined his plan to boost Australia's economic sovereignty through increased on-shore manufacturing and ...

Professor Penny Jane Burke is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) chair in Equity, Social Justice & Higher Education, the director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle, and ...

CampusReview · HEDx Podcast Episode 106 UA Highlights - 28 2 2024, 4.55 Pm Live from the foyer of the Universities Australia (UA) Solutions Summit in Canberra, this special episode shares the immediate reactions of tertiary education leaders to the ...

Sexual violence has been a persistent problem in Australian universities and residential colleges for decades. The 2021 National Student Safety Survey (NSSS) commissioned by peak body Universities Australia (UA) found that since starting their studies, one in 20 students had ...

Victim-survivor advocates have slammed the nation’s peak body representing Australian universities for failing to consult sexual violence experts on the development of its Charter on sexual harm. Universities Australia (UA) released its Charter on sexual harm last week with support ...

Universities Australia (UA) chief Catriona Jackson will step down from her position in December following a tumultuous year representing Australia’s 39 tertiary institutions. UA is the peak body representing Australian universities in lobbying government, communicating to the public, and co-ordinating ...