There are always issues and challenges facing institutions in the Higher Education sector and although these do vary from year to year, some issues remain significant and longstanding. In 2025 and 2026, there are high-profile issues that need to be ...
More »Albanese pledges free TAFE to help ease workforce shortages
Among the Prime Minister's first election promises is a pledge to pass laws making TAFE education free for 100,000 students each year from 2027. Mr Albanese threw Labor’s first election pitch at a major campaign rally in Adelaide on Sunday, saying he ...
More »What makes Chinese students so successful by international standards?
There is a belief widely held across the Western world: Chinese students are schooled through rote, passive learning – and an educational system like this can only produce docile workers who lack innovation or creativity. We argue this is far ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How can public universities innovate? – Episode 143
University of Wollongong interim vice-chancellor John Dewar hosted a panel of public university leaders at the HEDx conference in Brisbane last Thursday. Panelists were University of Queensland vice-chancellor Deborah Terry, University of the Sunshine Coast leader Helen Bartlett, James Cook ...
More »Better lucky than good: Reframing the challenge of university business – opinion
The world has changed, yet universities in Australia pretty much continue to do what we’ve always done – just with bells, whistles and a heap more auditable, reportable extras. And less cash. So, what’s changed? There’s the obvious and oft ...
More »HECS-HELP reform key election agenda for Albanese govt
Cash-strapped Australian graduates will not have to pay back their student debt until they earn at least $67,000 as the Albanese government flags HELP reform as a key election agenda. At a rally alongside South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas this ...
More »The fallout from Joe de Bruyn’s anti-abortion speech
An internal Australian Catholic University body is investigating whether an anti-abortion graduation speech was a breach of positive duty of care by university management under Victorian Human Rights Law. Former union boss Joe de Bruyn, two weeks ago, in an address to ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Is ‘learning agility’ the most important future trait?
ReadyTech co-founder and chief executive Marc Washbourne has led the technology service management company for 25 years. His personal agility has seen him grow the company to more than 600 staff, be named 2024 EY Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, ...
More »6 expelled, 21 suspended from Sydney uni college
Six male students have been expelled and 21 have been suspended after a serious bullying incident at the prestigious St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney. The 27 students received disciplinary action after an investigation by the college found the students had engaged ...
More »University anti-Semitism inquiry ordered by govt
The federal government has launched a fresh inquiry into anti-Semitism at Australian universities, following months of reported harassment and abuse of Jewish students and staff. On Tuesday, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus announced that the surge in anti-Jewish racism would be the subject ...
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