By Andrew MacDonald. The Turnbull Government proved desperate to avoid talking about its funding cut and fee hike plans for higher education during the 2016 election campaign. That reluctance to discuss the sector, however, did not extend to attempted smears on one of its high profile figures. More...
By Paul Clifton. This time last year the New Zealand finance minister and the tertiary education minister announced they would order the Productivity Commission to investigate tertiary education. They said tertiary education in New Zealand suffered from inertia. More...
By Paul Kniest. The Minister for Education, Senator Simon Birmingham, released a report by the Higher Education Standards Panel (HESP) entitled “Improving the Transparency of Higher Education Admissions on 16 November 2016. More...
By Jeannie Rea. Round 7 bargaining continues to unfold, predominantly in Western Australia, Queensland and Tasmania. The management agenda in WA, and in Queensland at Griffith and James Cook University (JCU) in particular, is a regressive one, paired with an aggressive approach. More...
By Jeannie Rea. The #MakeThePledge campaign, launched on 18 August this year, calls on Victorian vice-chancellors to extend their domestic and family violence leave provisions to casual staff. More...
By Jeannie Rea. The Turnbull Government has made it clear that they believe that the role of universities is to support research, development, and ‘innovation’ in the private sector. And with the added incentive of research grants favouring such collaborative work, universities will be stepping up their already deep and broad commitments to private industry and government in research and engagement. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The report prepared for the ASMR by Deloitte Access Economics entitled Australia’s health and medical research workforce: Expert people providing exceptional returns, concludes that five years of static investment into the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has resulted in “falling grant funding rates and a decline in the NHMRC-funded workforce”. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has questioned Monash University’s commitment to the mental health and wellbeing of students and staff, in response to management plans to cut in-house counsellor jobs. More...
Posted . Malaysia has sustained rapid and inclusive economic growth for close to half a century, as documented in the OECD’s first Economic Assessment of Malaysia (OECD, 2016). Real GDP growth has averaged 6.4% per year since 1970, outperforming most of its regional peers. More...
Blog Educpros de Xavier Pavie. « Poursuivez l’arc en ciel » est une injonction de Lew Kuan Yew, l’ancien premier ministre de Singapour, aux jeunes étudiants de la ville il y a une vingtaine d’années. L’expression était associée à une narration où le fondateur de Singapour expliquait que dans leur vie ils allaient rencontrer un grand nombre de challenges, des jours de pluies et même des orages. Voir l'article...
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