The Australian Universities Accord interim report was launched to widespread acclaim. There has been broad engagement with its overall direction from a national audience of current players within the sector. This group is feeling appropriately rejuvenated after having had a ...

TAFE SA students could have a greater choice of courses as part of a new regional push to revolutionise vocational training and help solve the skills crisis. Training and Skills Minister Blair Boyer is expected to admit that the state government ...

University Vice-Chancellors Bruce Dowton, Andrew Parfitt and Alex Zelinsky and Deputy VCs Clare Pollock, Theo Farrell, Merlin Crossley and Michelle Bellingan, as panellists at the HEDx conference in Sydney share "pithy" reactions to the interim report the day after its ...

University Accord panel chair Mary O’Kane has expressed her disappointment with the absence of diversity in the 300 submissions presented for consideration in the interim report, released last week. The interim report outlines a plan proposing five priority actions to ...

The education and training sector reported the fifth highest number of cyber security incidents - andthe most ransomware incidents - of any industry sector in the 2021-22 financial year. It is particularly challenged by having a dynamic, highly distributed and ...

The West Australian government faces strong resistance to mergers from most of the state’s public universities, signalling a major battle ahead if a review now under way recommends joining one or more institutions. Murdoch University vice-chancellor Andrew Deeks said his ...

Australian researchers have developed a new type of AI-enabled interface that allows the use of mind control to operate robots. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) said the technology, still in its early stages, has “vast potential” to ...

OpenAI has released a powerful new version of artificial intelligence program ChatGPT, capable of passing the US bar exam and coding entire video games within minutes.  GPT-4, launched March 17, is similar to its predecessor in that it uses generative ...

Universities are being advised how to avoid getting roped into multi-employer agreements under a leaked “strategy road map” that unions claim is “incontrovertible proof” the universities want to try to push through substandard pay deals. The Australian Higher Education Industrial ...

Western Australia will conduct an independent review of the state's four public universities to address a drop in student numbers and research funding over the past decade. Last week, state premier Mark McGowan appointed a panel of experts to analyse ...