Today
‘End it now or we’ll call police’: Uni toughens up on protesters
Melbourne University says protesters ‘crossed a line’ when they occupied a building and warned they could be charged by police if they don’t leave immediately.
- Updated
- Julie Hare and Patrick Durkin
This Month
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Double Aussie uni student numbers? The question is still how
A flurry of higher education announcements ahead of the budget didn’t get to the crux of Jason Clare’s big ambition. Neither did the budget.
- Julie Hare
Free courses to boost the chances of uni hopefuls
Universities and students have been the target for a mixed bag of measures that seek to expand domestic student places while curtailing international enrolments.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Go8 Universities agree to combat racism, uphold free speech
Australia’s oldest and most prestigious universities have set out five principles, as Deakin University prepares for a showdown with campus protesters.
- Patrick Durkin and Julie Hare
Calling time on international student numbers
Australia’s universities and colleges are fighting plans to reduce international student numbers. Spurred by the housing crisis, the government thinks it has no choice.
- Jennifer Hewett
‘I just need an actual job’: No relief for students in debt nightmare
The biggest contributor to student debt is a scheme called Job Ready Graduates. But it doesn’t look like there will be any reprieve in the budget.
- Julie Hare
Love or money? What to tell kids about career choice
Do you tell them to do what they love or urge them to become a doctor, accountant or a lawyer because it will provide financial security?
- Bianca Hartge-Hazelman
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