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How a liberal art college is fighting the AI cheating crisis
For AI to be a net benefit, we need deep thinkers who understand how to use technology for the common good. Technology should always be a tool and never an end.
Universities can’t avoid ‘smaller but better’ financial realities
A university’s higher purpose makes it different from other profit-making businesses. Yet they also need to be run as businesses to ensure the numbers add up.
Why ANU boss Genevieve Bell must go
Replacing the Australian National University vice chancellor is a necessary first step to rebuilding the reputation of the ANU and restoring its legitimacy.
UTS, the university that forgot about its students
If the university executive continues to dominate, we may be left with an institution rich in consultants but poor in teachers, researchers and students.
The government is facing the ‘impossible trinity’ in higher education
The sector faces its own structural crisis as the federal government sets out to institutionalise caps in the international student market.
August 2025
‘We can’t force people to wisdom’: Why no one is studying arts
As universities become more like vocational colleges than places of higher learning, the humanities are in steep decline. They can and should be saved.
The Asian century is here. So why are Australians still monolingual?
We cannot be a credible player on the global stage if we continue to outsource language and cultural literacy to luck and student enthusiasm.
‘Using AI is not cheating, it’s clever’: Unis’ tech dilemma
Universities are being urged to move past worrying about AI as academic fraud and start focusing on how to pump out prepared graduates.
Unis want end of ‘Hunger Games’ in era of scandals
Universities want funding for domestic places, humanities and research, but after a string of scandals Labor sees VC pay and a tougher regulator as priority.
What uni students really complain about
Most of the almost 2000 complaints made in the first six months to the student ombudsman could have been quickly resolved by universities.
Unis urged to adopt ‘institutional silence’ on controversial issues
This will help avoid undermining the fundamental purpose of encouraging debate to flourish, says University of Melbourne professor.
Hiked visa fees the latest hit to foreign student numbers
Australian students studying temporarily overseas have to pay $2000 for a visa the same as foreign students coming here.
The tech company where graduates are designing the front end
Superloop’s Daisey Stampfer says the company’s graduate hires are cutting edge, but jobs tsar Barney Glover is worried universities are lagging on AI.
Heat on VC pay as minister declares uni governance ‘not up to scratch’
Universities have been urged to increase transparency and accountability, and ensure VC remuneration is independently set, to help regain public trust.
Jason Clare puts unis on notice over governance and VC pay
The education minister says the public is losing confidence in the sector as separate analysis shows vice chancellor salaries averaged more than $1 million.
Universities must be reimagined for the AI age
Australia’s competitiveness depends on how quickly we can align education, technology and workforce development.
Long-term vision for universities hung up on short-term politics
Jason Clare’s blueprint calls into question the raison d’être of universities and whether they should exist merely to fill the pipeline of human capital for industry.
Australia’s low-skilled migration addiction is killing productivity
Instead of hosting low-wage guest workers, Australia sells study, graduate, and working holiday visas to poor people from developing countries, to do our hard work.
Skills tsar Barney Glover is a living advertisement for good education
The working-class kid with a talent for maths became university head and now head of Jobs and Skills Australia, and has good news for those worried about AI.
Sydney Uni students will use ChatGPT, so let’s teach them how
Instead of imposing unenforceable restrictions, we’re trusting our students to learn and letting them decide how they use AI to face the future and thrive.
March 2025
White House should stay out of Australian universities
The US risks shooting itself in the foot by forcing other countries to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI, America First ideology.
February 2025
People are not stupid or bogans ... it’s us, Shorten tells unis
Bill Shorten and Catherine Livingstone have come to similar conclusions as to why universities are out of favour with the community.
Shorten blames federal policies for his uni’s financial woes, job cuts
The University of Canberra’s new vice chancellor says 191 jobs will be cut this year after student numbers fell.
$80,000 debt is only part of cost crisis hitting students hard
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.
January 2025
Is a university degree still worth it?
The pay premium for graduates is on the decline, while the sector is a mess and academics are asking whether we have reached “peak university”.
