Julie Hare

A private school in Sydney is offering British A-levels as an alternative to the HSC.

Controversial academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has said Zionists “have no claim or right to cultural safety”, has had her $870,000 research grant suspended.

The Australian Research Council chairman says this country needs to get behind young researchers whose work takes greater risks but offers larger rewards.

The University of Sydney has received its second major donation in just two weeks – this time to change the trajectory of 80 million glaucoma sufferers.

Graduates can still find employer programs straight out of university, but it’s becoming tougher as the employment market retreats from boom time to just good times.

Jasmine O’Brien is in the second of a five-year degree, holds down two jobs and worries about what her student debt will be when she finally graduates.

Macquarie University academic still employed despite spate of antisemitic statements over the past 16 months.

This special report looks at the opportunities of educating the nation to solve existing national problems.

A new survey has found that, while school fees continue to increase, ancillary costs are also biting hard. Parents are reducing expenses elsewhere and turning more to grandparents for help.

ANU chancellor Julie Bishop and her pro chancellor, former KPMG chairwoman Alison Kitchen, have downplayed outrage over university chief Genevieve Bell’s paid job with global tech giant Intel.

For a decade or more, private schools have increased their fees by far more than the CPI. This year is no different, and schools have a range of explanations.

ANU chancellor Julie Bishop says she was responsible for negotiating Genevieve Bell’s salary package in full knowledge of her second job with Intel.

Opposition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson says questions need to be answered over how a vice chancellor could hold a second job with a foreign company.

Prestigious schools have been gradually contacting parents over the past few weeks announcing new fee schedules for 2025. 

Three of the Australian National University’s seven college leaders were summoned to meetings this week where they were told the governing council had lost confidence in them.

Senior executives at ANU have berated staff for leaking confidential information and say revelations have painted a false picture of the university’s culture.

University staff say they feel demoralised by Genevieve Bell’s leadership, calling her proposed overhaul “a corporate-style raid of a national institution”.

These international institutions are being hit by a wave of forces that is changing the shape of higher education.

When migration is no longer the cure for skill shortages, where does the country turn?

The $51 billion international education sector is bracing for a new wave of student visa rejections after the government’s signature migration plan was killed off.