This Month
- Exclusive
- Monash University
Call to ban big uni donors becoming chancellors
Amid a governance crisis in Australian universities, the academics union says big donors should not be named chancellors.
- Julie Hare
Dexus lobs bid for big super’s Aussie student apartment portfolio
Of note, Canadian giant Brookfield also participated in the first round but ultimately decided the asset wasn’t for it.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
ANU leaders berate staff over leaks, voice support for Bell
Senior executives at ANU have berated staff for leaking confidential information and say revelations have painted a false picture of the university’s culture.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Workplace
I will ‘hunt you down’: ANU staff rebel at its culture of fear
University staff say they feel demoralised by Genevieve Bell’s leadership, calling her proposed overhaul “a corporate-style raid of a national institution”.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
HECS architect wants student debt ignored when assessing home loans
Bruce Chapman, who created the income-contingent loan system for students, has hit out at the political fiddling the system has faced.
- Julie Hare
BGH Capital’s education biz Navitas secures $150m equity injection
The deal also saw Melbourne buyout firm BGH Capital, which struck a buyout deal with Navitas in 2019, tip in just under $50 million.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Vocational training
Why we got it wrong on education and skill shortages
After 15 years of policies encouraging people to go to university, Australia’s skills tsar says it is now time for a reset if we are to address chronic skill shortages.
- Julie Hare
November
Sydney Uni head again forced to defend why he should not resign
During a second parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism on university campuses, Mark Scott was asked whether his position was “still tenable”.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
‘I’m not going to say no to a nice salary’: outgoing Melbourne Uni boss
Duncan Maskell rejects criticism of million-dollar pay packets for vice chancellors, hits back at claims there are too many overseas students, and insists a university education should be free.
- Julie Hare
New watchdog won’t have power to rein in million-dollar uni salaries
Australian vice chancellors are the most highly paid in the world. But the federal government cannot set conditions on how much they earn.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Opinion
Neither side of politics shares Menzies’ vision for higher education
Instead of Labor and the Coalition blaming international students for housing shortages, they should reimagine our universities as engines of progress.
- Georgina Downer
- Exclusive
- International students
Labor could use legal loophole to cap student numbers
The federal government’s bid to limit the foreign intake failed. But it already has legislation that allows it to do exactly that.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- International students
Foreign students row is political kryptonite
The government accuses Peter Dutton of hypocrisy for rejecting its foreign student caps, but the Opposition Leader is not about to do Labor any favours this close to an election.
- Jennifer Hewett
Universities shifting from era of globalisation to intervention
These international institutions are being hit by a wave of forces that is changing the shape of higher education.
- Julie Hare
What students want out of their uni courses
In a time-poor and increasingly competitive world, students insist on both flexibility and value for their money.
- Sian Powell
Is there a solution to skill shortages?
When migration is no longer the cure for skill shortages, where does the country turn?
- Julie Hare
Short courses offer an alternative for time-poor students
Students are choosing shorter higher education courses such as microcredentials from non-traditional providers.
- Sian Powell
These three scenarios show how HECS debt hits your borrowing capacity
Instead of paying his student loan down faster with extra repayments, this 26-year-old chose to divert his savings to build a house deposit. It paid off.
- Updated
- Bianca Hartge-Hazelman and Lucy Dean
- Equity Winner
- Best Universities Ranking
How these unis help overcome student disadvantage
The University of Wollongong is the top ranked university in the Equity category in this year’s The Australian Financial Review Best Universities Ranking.
- Christopher Niesche
- Overall Winner
- Best Universities Ranking
Here’s the overall winner in the AFR’s Best Universities Ranking
For the second year in a row, UQ has taken out pole position in The Australian Financial Review Best Universities Ranking.
- Julie Hare
