Recent research led by Monash University underscores the importance of assessment feedback, as well as revealing that both academic staff and students need to improve. Limited time, large class sizes, declining student motivation and subpar staff feedback sills were identified in ...

A concerning situation is quickly developing for more than 100,000 independent tertiary education students in Victoria due to the state’s COVID-19 shutdown. The fear is that many of these students will be unable to complete their studies this year and ...

The federal government has poured millions into encouraging more women to enter careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), but uncertainty remains about which – if any – of the programs are delivering results. This is what astrophysicist Professor ...

In its sense of “sparing”, frugal is not a new word, and it often works as a negative when applied to the amount of food on the table, as in a frugal meal. But Samuel Johnson’s C18 observation on the ...

The number of Australian universities who have allegedly committed wage theft is mounting, with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) saying it accounts for one quarter of all our universities. The NTEU is threatening a “wave of class actions” in ...

A group of higher education staff disappointed with proposed sector reforms will meet online on August 24 – the day federal parliament returns – in an act of unprotected industrial action. Called the National University Staff Assembly and organised by ...

A new report has highlighted TAFE’s role in Australia’s economic success and warned that not investing in the sector will destroy our economy’s engines for prosperity, growth and equity. Authored by the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, the ...

University of Newcastle vice-chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky advised staff on Tuesday that the university was unable to reach agreement with unions on salaries to help with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic that has rocked the sector. It comes ...

Covid-19 has spawned a new vocabulary, from lockdown to social distancing to super-spreader, that has quickly become familiar. We’ve also had to learn technical terms like pandemic and coronavirus, and drug names like Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir. Another medical word that ...

More than 1200 members of Australia’s academic community have signed an open letter to state and federal education ministers to overturn what they see as a current corporate model of university governance and return it to its traditional roots. Three ...