The head of the federal government’s higher education review has praised the planned univer­sity merger in South Australia, saying she sees it as an experiment aimed at putting into action some of her panel’s recommendations. Universities Accord panel chairwoman Mary ...

University staff experiencing sexual violence and harassment on campus are dissatisfied with the university’s response when they make formal complaints, according to a recent national survey. In late 2022, Monash University conducted a national survey of 1,412 victim-survivors of workplace ...

In the next 12 months as a sector we'll still be dealing with the changes the pandemic wrought, but there are other important issues we need to contend with, too. 1. Returning to campus The Covid-19 pandemic completely changed the ...

Australian universities are rethinking curriculum and assessment delivery models to bridge the gap between classroom and career skills. New degrees in engineering reflect a trend away from traditional curricula, placing value on experience over exam grades. In a panel discussion ...

The Australian Universities Accord interim report generated widespread consensus around its overall vision of meeting our future skills needs through equity. It provides widely supported immediate policy changes and contains many detailed policy proposals being debated and engaged with by ...

Prestigious medical research body, the Woolcock Institute, is being welcomed with open arms by Macquarie University after being left homeless when the University of Sydney sold its building. The Woolcock, arguably the world’s top medical research institution in respiratory and ...

Staff at the University of Sydney have voted to agree to a provisional enterprise agreement after nearly two years of bargaining, ending the longest-running strike campaign seen in any Australian university. On Tuesday, nearly 700 union members voted in favour ...

More than 90 per cent of James Cook University (JCU) staff have reported a lack of trust in the university management's capacity to make 'good decisions' about the institution's future. The JCU branch of the National Tertiary Education Union surveyed ...

Staff from Sydney University have gone on strike over casualisation, work conditions and wages for the seventh time since the union began bargaining in August 2021. On Thursday, hundreds of full-time and casual staff formed picket lines after negotiations stalled ...

Western Sydney University will hire new permanent staff as part of a sector-first "large-scale academic decasualisation program." The program, designed in consultation with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), will see 150 full-time teaching and research positions be made available ...