University
Opinion
Opinion
High HECS debt is another barrier to equal parenting
High university fees could reduce women's workforce participation when they have children.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Latest
Pay
One in four international students earn less than half the minimum wage
A new Australian study has found three in four international students are paid below the minimum casual wage.
- by Anna Patty
Exclusive
Regional Australia
Nationals issue warning on government's university funding overhaul
Frontbencher Andrew Gee says the junior Coalition partner will only support the proposed shake-up after addressing any concerns held by regional universities.
- by Fergus Hunter
China
WA universities face 'day of reckoning' with risk Chinese students might never return
Universities are big business and selling higher education to overseas students is one of the biggest of them all. Will our state's tertiary institutions wither on the vine without the billions overseas students inject into the state's economy every year?
- by Nathan Hondros
The lowdown
'Picking winners' will not solve skills shortages: academics
Studying any course at tertiary level and higher wages for nurses and teachers would help address skills shortages, academics say.
- by Anna Patty
Letters
Letters
If universities are to be truly valued, they must be properly funded
Our public universities need to be treasured. That means a rethink on how they are managed and funded.
Education
Universities grapple with new ways to test students to combat cheating
About eight per cent of students admitted to taking an exam for someone else and 4.2 per cent admitted someone else had done their exam.
- by Anna Patty
Opinion
Opinion
Making sense of the government's war on arts degrees
Humanities graduates have been forced into an existential reckoning about our relative uselessness in a national crisis.
- by Julie Szego
Opinion
Opinion
Why one of the oldest academic pursuits is still relevant today
Evidence demonstrates clearly that the government’s discrediting of the humanities as irrelevant in the job market is nothing more than humbug wrapped up as policy.
- by Mike Davis
Coronavirus pandemic
'Tumultuous': The seismic change hidden in Tehan's plans for unis
If the government's changes pass, students will pay a greater proportion of the domestic teaching bill than the Commonwealth for the first time in decades.
- by Jordan Baker
What You Said
Readers debate government's changes to university fees
'The overhaul of university funding is really significant ... I think the comments speak to how passionate people are about Australia's education system.'
- by Aimie Rigas