The Australian Academy of the Humanities has welcomed the government’s $12 million pledge to fund research into Australian society, history and culture as well as the senate inquiry into our national identity. “Between 2011 and 2020, just three per cent ...

Minister for Education Dan Tehan today announced that the government would fund an early warning system for bushfires in the latest batch of funding through the Australian Research Council. Tehan detailed funding to the tune of $9.5 million for 20 ...

Curtin University has announced its first Indigenous Australian student to become a prestigious New Colombo Plan (NCP) Fellow. Matthew Harris, who is studying a Bachelor of Health Sciences, focusing on Indigenous and public health, joined the fellowship after being recognised ...

A statement released yesterday suggests that students and employers who pay the full cost of their vocational education and training (VET) will miss out on their fees being protected if a training provider folds. According to legislative reforms being debated before ...

Fewer individuals applied to universities in 2019, and fewer universities made offers according to the latest 2019 application and offers data released this week by Education Minister Dan Tehan.  The decrease in applications was 1.3 per cent following a decrease ...

I could easily style myself as an education expert: I have the prefix in front of my name that lends legitimacy; I run a national organisation focused on education research; and I’ve been an education adviser to a minister. Others ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled details for a university foreign interference taskforce in his address at the National Press Club in Canberra. The group will be made up of representatives from universities and government agencies in equal measure ...

The Australian Research Council (ARC) funding announcement delay is increasingly raising concerns among researchers. ARC-funded projects are required to begin research on 1 January 2019. As the date draws closer, researchers are complaining that adequate preparation time is being compromised by ...

On Thursday, university personnel, fittingly, exercised their freedom of speech. Responding to the government's announcement of a review into freedom of speech on campus on Wednesday, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) came out on blast. "There is no ...

By now, you well know that the former education minster's use of an arcane piece of legislation has caused furore among academics. Simon Birmingham's unannounced, unexplained veto of several research grants, all conferred to humanities researchers, has raised doubts about ...