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University staff from seven Victoria universities are expected to stage mass industrial action next month over rising tensions with university management over pay and workloads. Union members from the University of Melbourne, Monash, Deakin, La Trobe, Swinburne, RMIT and Victoria ...

Australia’s university sector lacks the institutional resilience to “prepare our nation for the future” and needs to enrol more people from lower socioeconomic and rural backgrounds to secure the future labour force, according to a landmark report. The Australian Universities ...

Sometimes it is useful to create a metaphor to remind us of the importance of things and ensure the meaning is as clear as possible. Compliance is an essential element of good governance in all sectors – and especially the ...

Over 80 per cent of people in Australia are concerned that universities prioritise profit over education, with four in five supporting a cap on vice-chancellors' salaries. A new report from The Australia Institute's Centre For Future Work drew results from ...

Leading university rankings company QS says there is no conflict of interest between its business as an international student recruiter and its rankings, which are closely followed by international students. QS senior vice-president (institutional performance) Ben Sowter said the company’s ...

Professor Mary O'Kane Chair of the Accord Review Panel joins the HEDx podcast for a second time through an interview with research partner HERDSA at a keynote plenary panel session at their annual conference in Brisbane last week.  In an interview by ...

Three Australian universities ranking in the top 20 academic institutions globally fell flat in a recent student satisfaction survey. The QS World University rankings released in June feature 1,500 institutions across 104 locations. The University of Melbourne ranked 14th place ...

Universities will have until 2025 to roll out major changes in their teaching degrees as part of a major shake-up of teacher education in Australia. Last week, education ministers signed off “in principle” on 14 recommendations from experts tasked to ...

The sector may be on the brink of major new policy changes and a new collaborative vision for its future. Many might see this as a landmark and time of celebration offering great opportunity. Others might see it as a ...

A tax on nearly $10bn a year of foreign student fees is being actively considered by experts drawing up Labor’s once-in-a-generation overhaul of the nation’s universities, sparking a war between the vice-chancellors who gain and lose from the plan. The ...