The peak body representing Australia’s universities has backed proposals outlined in the teacher training report released last week which calls for an overhaul of the system. Universities Australia’s director of strategic communications, Louise Dodson, said the recommendations “provide a nationally ...

Taxpayers, rather than students alone, would be asked to foot the cost of maintaining Australia’s higher-education system under one alternative approach to the government’s proposed deregulated fee system. The proposal was one of many discussed last week at a round table University ...

In an extended interview, education editor Antonia Maiolo spoke to Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, associate professor from Griffith University, who is the most recent recipient of the Australian University Teacher of the Year award. Bartleet, who has been in the industry for ...

Charitable giving to universities in the US has reached a historic high for the second year in a row, an annual survey has found. With concerns looming in the US about funding and student loan debts, philanthropic donations reserved for student financial aid ...

Dean of Science at UNSW Merlin Crossley has joined other leading experts concerned over reduced funding to research. "Across the world, Singapore, China, and even the European countries are maintaining or increasing funding to science, and have a strategy to ...

The University of Sydney has announced it will cut its carbon footprint by 20 per cent by divesting from fossil fuel investments over the next three years. The University’s vice-principal operations, Sara Watts, said the move, which will cut heavy ...