Educational Leadership

Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.

The notable decline of public confidence in universities suggests that university researchers need to do more to explain the importance of what we do, including the funding systems we work within.

Welcoming Universities is a new initiative in Australia that aims to encourage refugees and asylum seekers into university, says University of Melbourne expert

The stories shared over the last few days by distraught academics have been utterly awful.

Permanent shift away from face-to-face lectures and expensive buildings tipped in external report

James Paterson has been appointed to head inquiry universities fear could stifle international collaboration

Chair of the Group of Eight research universities, Margaret Gardner, says people who do humanities and social science degrees get jobs at about the same rate as science graduates. Is she correct?

A post-war funding crisis forced universities to take the initiative in making their case to the public. A new history explores how universities did it and the changes they brought about.

Future shock: how Australia's universities are changing after the coronavirus cataclysm | Australian universities | The Guardian

In both the US and the UK, students described being told that they were beneficiaries of affirmative action, write authors Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers

What counts as ‘normal’ on campuses has changed drastically after Covid lockdowns, for students and staff alike

A crisis of sustainability is building up as universities continue to drift towards a more privatised system. It’s time we started looking at alternative options.

Will hybrid and online learning models remain the normal into the future? And will international students be able to undertake degrees from top Australian universities from their home countries, as is currently the case.

Some will disappear completely

Vice-chancellors need to be academics, politicians and diplomats, with a savvy head for business. But are they worth more than a million dollars a year?

It is not clear if recent funding changes will encourage students to study science instead of humanities, the Covid-19 parliamentary inquiry hears

Competition and casualisation must surely now give way to fairness and social responsibility