Universities

Staff at the Australian National University have overwhelmingly voted to reject a proposal from the institution to forgo a pay rise

Ryden has gone from flunking class to looking forward to graduating after his teacher suggested he join his high school's unique automotive class.

The government says a controversial ministerial directive will remain in place if it cannot pass its bill to cap international student enrolments from next year — a likely scenario due to the Coalition announcing it will vote against it. 

The Coalition has announced it will oppose the government's bill to limit the number of international students able to enrol from next year, just weeks out from when the caps were meant to come into force.

The fate of government plans to cap international student enrolments from the start of next year hangs in the balance, with the Coalition yet to announce their support with two sitting weeks left in the year.

An Australian National University associate professor sharply criticises Australia's domestic intelligence agency, saying it asked her to report on Chinese international students and put a "chill" on China research as the bilateral relationship deteriorated.

New research reveals senior academics at Australian universities favoured white prospective PhD students. These students say their experiences echo the findings. 

James Cook Univeristy says its Daintree Rainforest research station is "severely under-utilised", even though the canopy crane is one of only six in the tropics worldwide.

As the Albanese government moves to ease the debt burden in the HECS system, a different group of former students is demanding their debt be wiped. 

ANU Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell did not say if security consultants monitored pro-Palestinian students' social media activity.

With jobs to be cut at both of Canberra's major universities, some staff members are concerned about the way the process has been handled so far by management.

A plan for Tasmania's university to develop a "city centric" campus in Hobart has been scaled back, with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to stay on at its current Sandy Bay campus.

The University of Wollongong has approached staff across 25 disciplines for redundancies in a restructure the union fears could abolish its degrees in history, mathematics, geography and languages.

The federal government hopes to announce a promise to change university course fees before the year's end, with its one-off cuts to existing graduate debts considered an "interim" measure. 

Economists have welcomed the government's plan to raise the level of income people need to earn before they need to make student debt repayments, but argue that reducing the cost of higher education would have greater benefits than slashing existing debts.

A re-elected Albanese government would reduce student debts by 20 per cent as part of a broader suite of changes to the system.

The federal government has proposed new changes to student loan repayments for cost of living savings. Here's what that could mean for you.

The changes would mean a shift to a marginal repayment system, as recommended by the Universities Accord, which found existing arrangements disproportionately affect those on lower incomes.

A university has announced the "tough decision" to drop its creative arts programs despite being based in a region renowned for its arts and culture.

More than 1,000 workers could soon lose their jobs as Australia's universities aggressively cut costs ahead of the federal government's proposed international student caps.