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Policy & Reform
What should replace inequitable JRG?
By 2027, just under one third of Australian university students will be paying more than $18,000 for a single year of full-time study. This makes a standard three-year arts degree at this rate more than…
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Commentary
Completion and compliance in ATEC era
When the Australian Universities Accord landed in February 2024, it arrived with the weight of a generational document. Four hundred pages, forty-seven recommendations, and a vision of 80 per cent of working-age Australians holding a…
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Podcasts
HEDX: Are global partnerships effective?
The fourth episode in our series, The AI Inflection Point, this conversation looks at whether higher education’s actions around creating global partnerships has actually been effective for students, for institutions, or for the sector?
Workforce
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Pedagogy
Psychology ed must evolve with profession
The expansion of paid prac support for clinical psychology students has been welcomed, but experts warn Australia must also ensure placements are available, diverse and aligned with the skills future psychologists will need in practice.
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On Campus
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On Campus
Uni leaders face Antisemitism Royal Commission
The leaders of some of Australia's top universities have admitted they ‘failed’ in some aspects of handling Israel-Gaza protests and conflict on campus, a royal commission has heard.
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AI
The AI Inflection Point: Podcast
Can universities lead the AI transformation that higher education needs alone? And what does together look like when your institution is under real financial pressure? This panel brings together four leaders with very different starting…
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Industry & Research
What is the future of scientific research?
The federal budget delivered targeted boosts for science agencies but stopped short of the sweeping reforms recommended in the Ambitious Australia report, leaving the nation’s research system in a familiar holding pattern.
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Exclusive
How AI will change student experience
Artificial intelligence is poised to fundamentally reshape the student experience over the next decade, shifting universities towards personalised, always available support, a sector voice has said.
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Exclusive
UC centre to focus on public debate, not enrolments
Bill Shorten will leverage his political experience to open a centre that will foster healthy debate, exemplify public sector leadership…
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Rankings
Aus universities shine in sustainability rankings
Australian universities have placed well in Time Higher Education's Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026, with eight achieving a spot in the…
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Podcasts
HEDx: The culture problem around AI
Lucy Marshall from the University of Sydney names what most leaders know but rarely say out loud — universities don't have an innovation problem. They have a culture problem.
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Podcasts
HEDx: AI highlights broken HE model
Welcome to episode one of The AI Inflection Point — our six-part series recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney.
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Podcasts
HEDx: The student experience at UQ
In this episode for Student Experience, University of Queensland students Madison Piper and Ben Roden-Cohen sit down with Professor Kris Ryan.
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Podcasts
HEDx: The right moment to transform has passed
Western Governors University president Scott Pulsipher and New State University president Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich challenged universities with an uncomfortable truth.
