The conversations about higher education were never more listened to, or diverse. But what do we hear, what sense do we make of it, and how do we respond? What I heard most clearly last week was the student voice. ...

Despite decreases in student satisfaction affecting the Australian higher education sector in 2020, the 2020 Employer Satisfaction Survey provided a more positive outlook of the sector, including an improvement in overall satisfaction levels since 2019.  The survey found that 84.7 ...

Activist Drew Pavlou painted himself as a victim and the university as a villain amid ongoing tensions between the former student and the University of Queensland, its chancellor has told a senate inquiry. The university suspended Pavlou after he held rallies against human rights abuses in ...

It was expected that the 2020 Student Experience Survey (SES) would contain a number of surprises this year, with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting virtually every part of our globalised world.  Domestic students In Australia, for instance, there was a nine ...

Terror expert Greg Barton has warned international partnerships, like universities, can act as a ‘trojan horse’ for terrorists. His comments follow word from Australia’s top intelligence agency that a “nest of spies” working in Australia had been disrupted. The Deakin University professor ...

“You can’t live on instant noodles for three years.” That was the call from one university student who took part in a food insecurity project at the University of Melbourne. Researchers recruited four students who had all experienced food insecurity ...

Australians living with mental illness are being given the opportunity to shape future models of care under a new $10m program. The National Health and Medical Research Council will fund ALIVE, the Academy of Lived Experience and Co-Design Living Labs, ...

A psychology theory known as the “bystander effect” might explain how an elderly man slumped dead in his car outside a busy Perth supermarket went unnoticed for four days. The man’s body was found in a four-wheel drive outside Herdsman ...

An article titled "F*** You: Uyghur protestors rally against appointment of University of Adelaide's new VC" published on 8 February 2021 included a number of false and defamatory statements made by protestors and directed at the appointment of Professor Peter ...

Pharmacists are the lowest paid graduates in Australia with new data revealing the profession offers those straight out of university a $49,600 salary. The Graduate Outcomes Survey by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) revealed pharmacists came in $12,900 below the ...