A new federal government discussion paper on higher education reform acknowledges a strong push from the education sector to change the Morrison government’s unbalanced university fee structure which penalise business, law and humanities students with a $15,000-a-year impost. The Australian ...

As the campaign for an Indigenous Voice to parliament ramps up nationwide, universities have begun to air their stance on the upcoming referendum. On Saturday the Prime Minister declared a “national week of action” to raise awareness in favour of ...

Monash University has ditched its physical student and staff ID cards for a "more convenient and secure" digital pass. The new pass which accessible on mobile phones and connected watches, will replace university identification and allow staff and students to ...

Amazing new AI bots are now able to convincingly write cogent academic essays and assist in penning other student assignment tasks. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has caused consternation in a higher education environment already struggling to sustain its own ...

The Productivity Commission is calling on universities to make it easier for academics to work in consultancy roles with industry and government so the latter two groups can gain more benefit from university-sourced innovation and knowledge. In a new interim ...

USyd Vice-chancellor Professor Mark Scott will lead a panel review into initial teacher education to help tackle the teacher shortage crisis. Announced by the federal government, a panel of six experts will review how education degrees are delivered in Australian ...

The recently introduced Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure Protection) Act 2022 (SLACIP) has led to significant changes around cybersecurity incidents for critical infrastructure (CI) operators in the higher education industry.1  For example, according to SLACIP, CI operators must report serious ...

Data breaches can happen to any organisation of any size or industry. But, academic institutions have been a primary target for cybercriminals and malicious actors as seen most recently in the Deakin University breach. Of course, the primary goal for ...

Alignment across an organisation is key to enabling broad achievement of purpose when trying to set off on new paths and do something really distinctive. One of the key ways in which culture impacts organisational performance is by allowing strategy ...

With the new government’s Universities Accord process underway, higher education leaders are calling for equity, insecure work and wage theft to be prioritised in the new reform era.  Speaking at the Universities Australia gala on July 6, Federal Education Minister ...