Today
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University chancellors on urgent mission rebuffed by PM
Scott Morrison’s office rejected a meeting that included heavy hitters Martin Parkinson, Peter Varghese, David Gonski, Belinda Hutchinson and Peter Shergold.
- Julie Hare
Yesterday
La Trobe Uni cuts another 200 jobs as virus crisis hits hard
La Trobe University has announced another 200 job cuts, adding to the 14,300 already lost in the higher education sector since last year.
- Julie Hare
This Month
Unis in uncharted territory of slow-burn crisis
The size of the financial crisis facing Australian universities is not yet known and will take years to work its way through the system.
- Julie Hare
Murdoch Uni put on short leash by regulator
The West Australian university’s latest crisis has seen calls for a public explanation and strategy from its chancellor.
- Julie Hare
City highs as unis move out of the ’burbs
Universities are increasingly seen as vital assets to the regeneration of down-at-heel inner cities. Edith Cowan University is a case in point.
- Julie Hare
University governance failings are human failings
All too often accountability in universities stops at the top. And that’s a problem if the top is where the problem lies.
- Jennifer Martin and Les Coleman
Economics is dull? No way, says RBA
Economics is often viewed as abstract, difficult, dull, boring, not relevant to the real world, and lacking an ethical dimension, the central bank wants to change that.
- Ronald Mizen
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- University
First Ramsay scholars: Looking to the past to understand the future
Margot Holbert, one of 20 inaugural Ramsay postgraduate scholars, has no truck with modernism. It’s classicism all the way.
- Julie Hare
Return of international students under threat, again
Plans for the comeback of international students could be again under pressure after caps on returning Australians were halved.
- Julie Hare
Tweaks to NAPLAN hold huge advantages
A set of proposed changes to NAPLAN will make the test more valuable for students and schools.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- University
Vaile’s blacklisters hijacked the bedrock idea of a university
Universities champion open inquiry and academic freedom. This fundamental idea is betrayed by special interest groups dictating the exclusion of viewpoints.
- Paul Jeans
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- Education
New sustainable fashion school to help clothes keep their cool
Making fashion sustainable will be the focus of a new collaboration between UTS and Sydney Institute’s design schools.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Innovation
Innovating to a world that should be, not could be
Other countries are counting their innovation programs not in the billions but tens and hundreds of billions. Australia is sadly lagging.
- Roy Green
Australia gets a new university and three university colleges
The higher education regulator is trying to promote diversity in the tertiary education system, with the National Institute of Dramatic Art promoted as one of three new university colleges.
- Julie Hare
June
Despite delta variant, international student plans forge ahead
The virus strain is playing havoc in Australian cities but there is hope it will not affect the planned return of international students.
- Julie Hare
Universities ignore Beijing’s threats to Chinese students
Beijing’s increasingly bold attempts to shape global perceptions means Chinese students and staff on university campuses are frequently targeted, harassed and intimidated, a report finds.
- Julie Hare
Black hole devours neutron star in cosmological Pac-Man
Scientists have witnessed for the first time the death spiral and merger of two of the densest objects in the universe – a neutron star and a black hole.
- Julie Hare
UNSW appoints Attila Brungs vice-chancellor
UNSW’s new vice-chancellor is a Rhodes scholar with an inorganic chemistry PhD who has worked at CSIRO, McKinsey and was most recently the UTS vice-chancellor.
- Julie Hare
Global investor KKR takes majority stake in Education Perfect
The New-Zealand-based edtech company uses data, machine learning and AI to personalise education for individual students.
- Julie Hare
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- University
Science of gender bias is just a mansplain away
Female students are at higher risk of attrition from a science career and it all starts at university.
- Julie Hare
