Australia’s need for educators has been driven by an interplay of salary, burnout and dissatisfaction, but new research will seek insight from a largely overlooked stakeholder - ex-teachers.  Experts from three major universities will survey people who have quit teaching ...

Staff at Federation University will be on the picket lines tomorrow over fair pay, job security and better working conditions after the union said management had been “purposely delaying” negotiations.  On Thursday, hundreds of staff and students from the Federation ...

University of Tasmania staff have expressed a lack of confidence in the institution’s leadership and ­future, in a major internal survey obtained by The Australian. Results of the survey, conducted for UTAS management by an external body across faculties in ...

Labor has pressed ahead in its redesign of the Job-ready graduates scheme, reversing fee hikes for honours students and introducing a new program to attract medical professionals into remote hospitals. Federal education minister Jason Clare introduced two new amendments to ...

Australia’s peak university body is calling on the government to adjust entry requirements into graduate defence roles and to fund internships and work placements for up to 100,000 international students. Universities Australia told an independent review into the nation’s defence ...

Major changes to Twitter’s free speech and content moderation rules have presented new challenges for universities and academics. Last week, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk secured ownership of the world's largest social media platform, firing roughly half of Twitter's workforce and ...

The Group of Eight universities have asked the federal government to back a new plan that will bring universities closer to the defence industry and the defence forces in an effort to boost Australian capability. In its submission to the ...

The University of New South Wales and Sydney University have been named as Australia's most sustainable universities, tying for fifth place in the latest global higher education rankings. Australia had 36 per cent of its universities appear in the top ...

A new report calling for Australia’s schools and universities to remain open during future Covid-19 outbreaks has been critiqued for using “misleading” data. Last Thursday, a six-month independent review into Australia’s Covid-19 response led by Western Sydney University chancellor professor ...

Federal education minister Jason Clare will announce the details of the Australian Universities Accord, including its panel of “eminent Australians” and their terms of reference, next month. Speaking to the University Chancellor's Council last week, the minister said the bipartisan ...