Australia can maintain its competitive edge by capitalising on the allure of its lifestyle, environment and social norms. There has been a great deal of media commentary of late analysing the dramatic increase in overseas students choosing to study in ...

Retaining and promoting women in STEM fields and academia requires sweeping reforms in structure and mindset – and that’s as it should be. Late last year, a car was sent to pick up one of our female professors to take ...

Closing the gap between men and women in the workplace requires sweeping cultural change. Real progress has been made towards gender equality over recent decades and these hard-won achievements are nothing to be disparaged. However, there remains much to be ...

Here are some ways to ensure your refurbishment project runs on time and to budget. A campus refurbishment can be one of the most disruptive activities for tertiary facilities, next to out-of-control O-week escapades. Continual construction works that disrupt learning and ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) makes its case for university remuneration reform.   There is widespread evidence that academic staff in Australian universities are working excessive and even unsafe hours. Surveys and research consistently show that most fulltime academics work more ...

The federal government lays VET FEE-HELP’s failure at Labor’s feet, conveniently ignoring its own policy shortcomings since 2013. What does a government do when the whole country knows its policy has failed? In the case of the current federal government ...

National Tertiary Education Union industrial relations claim threatens the demise of the academy and international competitiveness. Academic staff at Australian Universities enjoy flexible working hours and freedom to pursue their research and intellectual interests within their disciplines with only minimal ...

In fewer than five years, some Australian universities will be forced to shut their doors. This prediction, while brutal, reflects the sad reality that some in the Higher Education sector will only grasp the full impacts of digital disruption once ...

Technology, rural shortages and changing definitions of mental health will all affect the profession, but opportunities for careers will remain. Rising rates of mental ill-health in recent years have been matched by an overall increased awareness and understanding of such ...

Call it a budding innovation ecosystem, or an education turf war. Either way, universities have their sights set on Sydney’s west. But the vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University has argued the incoming education boom could be brought to a bumper-to-bumper ...