Be careful what you wish for, Australian universities told Advocate more judiciously, sector representatives urged, as they demand more money to ‘do our job for the country’ John Ross 2月 26日
Australian opposition eyes fee review, grant veto, v-c pay rules Coalition has departed from usual practice, outlining a comprehensive suite of changes if it regains government John Ross 2月 26日
UA Summit: Silver lining to international education crackdown If doors to opportunity close, ‘it can become a potent political issue very quickly’ John Ross 2月 25日
O’Kane named interim head of Australian tertiary commission Conference also hears that proposed streamline of ARC grant schemes will give early career researchers a ‘leg-up’ John Ross 2月 25日
Australia’s student participation targets risk being a lost cause One year on from publication of the Universities Accord, Justin Bokor says the funding needed to support equity student success is simply not there Justin Bokor 2月 24日
Miscommunication ‘part of universities’ perception problems’ Universities can win a rational argument but lose an emotional war, conference hears John Ross 2月 24日
Defending vice-chancellor pay a ‘lost cause’, says Shorten ‘Real issue’ is whether people think universities give value, says new university leader who accepted lower salary John Ross 2月 24日
Degrees ‘not worth financial drawback’ of unpaid placements Students take years to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they would have been paid if training was salaried, New Zealand study finds John Ross 2月 21日
Regional university’s Melbourne campus pushes work-based learning City campuses have not delivered institutions an international education bonanza, but Federation hopes its new site will support a new model of cooperative education John Ross 2月 20日
Asylum bids flow in as serial students run out of options Many asylum applicants began their journeys as students before Australia’s visas were overhauled almost a decade ago, new figures suggest John Ross 2月 19日
Master’s pivot ‘problematic’ for cash-strapped universities Domestic postgraduate provision looms as an alternative to out-of-favour international education, but it’s a tough market with questionable returns John Ross 2月 18日
Australian universities face election with nobody in their corner Never much of a vote-winner, higher education now risks the burden of being branded a vote-loser for parties seen as too soft on the sector John Ross 2月 17日
