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Higher education to cut through endemic challenges
From crisis to reinvention, and better outcomes for the tertiary sector
Higher Education Summit - Final Release
At Australia’s premier forum for higher education leaders, we identify and explore bold new ideas in higher education, with a focus on adaptation, resilience and opportunities for institutions to carve out a stronger post-pandemic future.
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Labor’s higher education agenda will pick up where Gillard left off
During his first major speech to the university sector, Jason Clare says there is still a lot of work to do to make university more accessible to poorer people.
- Julie Hare
‘Not perfect’ university sector needs more money, peak body says
Despite record surpluses, the chairman of Universities Australia says taxpayers need to invest more money in higher education.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
Skills shortages will be long term, but more uni graduates won’t help
Workforce trends mean the supply of workers each year will not be adequate to meet the demand, particularly for jobs requiring a vocational level education.
- Ronald Mizen
Higher education to cut through endemic challenges
From crisis to reinvention, and better outcomes for the tertiary sector
Future of skills and training already written
The new government prosecuted an ambitious skills agenda ahead of the election. In implementing it, the minister must avoid the mistakes of the past.
- Gary Workman
June
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May
School-leavers put passion before jobs when choosing what to study
Do what interests you is the mantra 18-year-olds listen to when deciding what to study at university.
- Julie Hare
High hopes for meaningful education reform under Labor
The education sector felt shunned and disregarded under the Coalition, with insiders elated at the election result.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Federal election
Plibersek’s challenge is to rebuild ambition
Education has been overlooked and wracked by the culture wars. It’s time to move on.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
Short courses fail on policy options
Micro-credentials and short online courses are changing the education landscape. But there is confusion as to how these tiny units of learning should be recognised.
- Julie Hare
March
The top four Australian universities for producing CEOs
A new analysis ranks the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, Macquarie University and the University of South Australia as the best.
- Agnes King and Julie Hare
August 2021
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Universities face future of disruption
Beyond debates about shoring up the pandemic-hit business models in the short term, the longer-term future of higher education could see much bigger disruption.
- The AFR View
The unicorn fantasy is not going to save unis: vice-chancellors
University chiefs say they have slashed spending as hard as they can but the tough times are still to come.
- Tess Bennett
President Xi’s ideological control could kill foreign student market
The risk that China could pull the plug on allowing its students to travel overseas for study is becoming a closer reality.
- Julie Hare and Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Universities in crisis
Universities count losses, search for gains
Australian universities are adapting to a dramatically different business model, but closed borders are exacerbating the financial arguments with Canberra.
- Jennifer Hewett
Forced research collaboration a COVID-19 upside
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities and industry to collaborate more closely.
- Natasha Gillezeau
Time to agree on ‘purpose’ of universities: Catherine Livingstone
The businesswoman and university chancellor says Australia needs a ‘meeting of minds’ about the role of universities, after which the fractious issue of funding can be debated.
- Tess Bennett
Regions bear weight of skill shortages
One in five occupations are now suffering from skills shortages, with the regions most badly affected, new analysis shows.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University
Stop tinkering, build consensus around unis: Plibersek
Strong bipartisan support for the university sector should be a ‘no brainer’, says the opposition spokeswoman on education.
- Updated
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University
Unis are financially fit to ride out pandemic storm: Tudge
The university sector needs to stop crying poor and ride out the COVID storm under its own strength, says Alan Tudge.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University funding
Revenue from foreign students crashes 28pc
Revenue from international students has declined by 28 per cent in just one year and on current trends the sector will be valued at just $20 billion by the end of the year, exactly half what it was worth in 2019.
- Julie Hare
Why this CEO is wary about eating lunch with the Financial Review
Universities Australia’s Catriona Jackson talks a sector in $2 billion of pain, her food reviewing, work in politics – and the crime of pineapple on pizza.
- Julie Hare
Tudge waiting for 80pc vaccinations to allow overseas students return
International student commencements are down by 33 per cent, but Alan Tudge is refusing to provide any signals of when they might return.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- University
Tudge handed recovery road map to reverse overseas student crisis
Education Minister Alan Tudge has been given a plan on how international students can safely return to Australia.
- Julie Hare
