The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia have formalised plans to merge into the state’s largest higher education institution by 2026. Last week, the South Australian government announced it would invest $450 million to establish the new ...

University of Wollongong deputy vice-chancellor Professor Leo Farrell has been announced as the new head of Victoria's La Trobe University. Professor Farrell, an internationally recognised war scholar, said he looked forward to realising a "bold and exciting" future for the ...

There is much evidence to support the view that the future of work is changing rapidly.  The accelerating decay in the value of acquired knowledge and experience is behind much of the increasing drive and need for lifelong learning.  And ...

Tiffany Wright as Director of Education for Microsoft ANZ outlines how tech companies offer opportunities for partnership in the global mission to make education available to all.  The future of work is being increasingly influenced by and disrupted by technology and ...

Cash-strapped universities have been instructed to find new ways to make money to offset tumbling enrolments, as more school leavers choose work over study. Soaring living costs, especially rent, food and electricity, are forcing more Australian students to defer or ...

The University of Melbourne has achieved its highest-ever place in this year’s global higher education rankings, with three Australian universities breaking into the world’s top 20.  The annual QS World University Rankings ranked Melbourne University 14th globally and first in ...

Global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality have been underway for more than 10 years now, with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) celebrating its 10th anniversary in May 2023. This initiative and other related initiatives such as ...

A group of former senior university executives are working to establish Australia’s first “lifestyle university” on the NSW Central Coast. The Chancellor Institute is chaired by former Sydney University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Emerita Ann Brewer and aims to raise $4.5M ...

Vice-Chair of the Declaration On Research Assessment Ginny Barbour has led global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality. Her aim has been to moderate commercially motivated efforts of commercial publishers to exploit science and publishing for their own commercial purposes. ...

The Albanese government should resurrect the 50-year-old policy of former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and abolish university fees, said University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell. In his annual vice-chancellor’s address on Tuesday, Professor Maskell said the reintroduction of university ...