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Budget 2024: The government must support universities, students – and research
This is the third in a series of posts on the 2024 Budget. Today: higher education by the …
How universities have become big business
Australian public universities have undergone extensive policy reforms since the 1980s, driven by neoliberal ideologies that emphasise free …
O’Shea: All I want for higher education now and tomorrow
Fresh from delivering a widely-applauded keynote at this year’s HERDSA conference, “Fragility or tenacity? Equity and participation in …
Is this now the Federal government’s most bone-headed idea ever?
Apparently international PhD students in Australia now have to seek ministerial approval to change their thesis topic or …
At least six ways COVID has crushed higher education (now university managers make it worse)
Even less work-life balance, anxiety around online skills, fears the pandemic will be used to crush academic autonomy …
We Found Education Schools Across The Nation Are Victims Of Targeted Cuts But More Threats Are Looming
At every university around the country, academics in schools and faculties of Education have been hit hard. Hundreds, maybe thousands, have lost their jobs. Many of them are people we know. Yet it is not easy to identify the particular staff who have ‘disappeared’ from classes, courses and schools of Education among the seventeen and …
Online learning will never be a substitute for face-to-face
In 2020 higher education student satisfaction with their ‘entire educational experience’ hit its lowest point since Australia’s national survey of current students began in 2011. But the detailed survey results, which cover many aspects of student life, paint a mixed picture. Despite an unexpected shift to online learning due to COVID-19 restrictions, satisfaction with many …
Students with low ATARs from wealthier families first to gain from Pyne’s reforms
We are being misled about a key plank of Christopher Pyne’s higher education reforms and, until now, the …
Teacher selection and education set to be worst hit by Pyne’s uni fee deregulation
I believe it is of great importance that we preserve the public charter of our tertiary sector and …