This Month
PwC’s failed complaint over professor’s spicy LinkedIn posts
Andy Schmulow’s more polite jibes included calling PwC “a cancer” on society, “thugs in suits”, and a “parasite”. PwC reckons it’s all beyond the pale.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Chinese do better than others in student visa crackdown
Nearly every Chinese student who applies for a visa to study at an Australian university gets approved. It’s a different story for others.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Reinstate HECS discount to recover debt
Readers’ letters on the reduction in indexation rates for HECS debt; the crackdown on the big four accountancy firms and lobby groups making submissions to the government ahead of the budget.
Constitutional expert to be next head of Western Sydney Uni
George Williams spent 24 years at UNSW where he built a reputation as one of Australia’s foremost legal scholars. But now he’s upping stumps to head up WSU.
- Julie Hare
Labor to give teaching, nursing students $320 per week payment
Teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work students will receive a weekly payment to help offset the costs of mandatory placements.
- Julie Hare
Labor to wipe $3b from students’ HECS debt
The government will cut the student debt of around 3 million students as cost-of-living pressures continue to create pain.
- Julie Hare
Dutton calls on unis to shut down pro-Palestinian protests
Peter Dutton says vice chancellors are tolerating racist protests on their campuses and should shut the activists down.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Opinion
No safe spaces for Jewish students at universities
Vice chancellors say what’s happening on campuses here is a million miles away from what’s happening in the US. That’s a statement of wishful thinking – not reality.
- John Roskam
Left has abandoned free speech: Singer
The Australian philosopher says: “What used to be things that were generally accepted by people on the progressive side of politics have shifted – and freedom of speech is a basic example.”
- Nick Bonyhady
April
Blaming students for housing crisis ‘simplistic’, universities say
A new report finds that conflating international students with the housing shortage is opportunistic and could have profound ramifications on the economy.
- Julie Hare
- Breaking
- University rankings
‘The right time to go’: Maskell to leave Melbourne University
Duncan Maskell, the University of Melbourne’s vice chancellor, will step down next year just halfway through his second five-year term.
- Julie Hare
Mass lay-offs at regional uni as international enrolments slump 90pc
Federation University in Victoria could be the canary in the coal mine as its international student enrolments dive.
- Julie Hare
Average HECS debts to rise by $2350 on June 1
There may be relief for student-debt holders in the upcoming budget, but it won’t come soon enough to prevent a 4.7 per cent increase.
- Julie Hare
Sarah, Cate, Kip, Baz and Mel are all alumni, but NIDA is broke
Australia’s premier dramatic arts institution produces the biggest names in theatre and entertainment, but it is struggling to get by.
- Julie Hare
Relief in sight as anger over student debt escalates
Rising student debt is crippling a generation of recent graduates, but the Prime Minister has indicated help is on the way.
- Julie Hare
International student numbers slump as reforms bite
Only 46,570 students landed in Australia to begin their studies last month.
- Julie Hare
Melbourne Law School improves ranking despite students’ year from hell
A new league table of universities by subject area has bumped Melbourne Law School up a place to 10th, calling into question the validity of many rankings.
- Julie Hare
Scape closes third joint venture with $1b student housing fund
The private developer of purpose-built student accommodation has paired again with funding partners APG and Ivanhoe Cambridge to develop 3000 new rooms.
- Michael Bleby
Visa rejections hit record as overseas students top 700,000
There were 713,000 international students living in Australia in February, but a corner has been turned as visa rejections pile up.
- Julie Hare
Top law school dean steps down after litany of failures
The head of Melbourne Law School has stepped aside following more than a year of bureaucratic, administration and communication fails.
- Julie Hare
