The Productivity Commission has recommended private school building funds lose their tax exemptions – but Labor has ruled out the reform, even before the report was released.
In response to campus protests, university administrators have agreed to disclose connections to weapons manufacturers – but regulations surrounding national security provide an out to this transparency.
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The opposition’s proposed cuts to migration have not only stirred confusion within its ranks, but risk damaging the economy with the focus on foreign students.
A former group leader details his experiences of a South Korean religious sect called Shincheonji, which is recruiting members across Australian university campuses.
With fewer disadvantaged children completing high school, the federal government is under pressure to cover a shortfall with the states in public school funding.
As figures reveal public schools are underfunded by more than $6 billion a year, unpublished research shows politicians are twice as likely as the general public to be privately educated.
The murder of a young woman at an elite private school, and the reaction from a former principal, has highlighted a broader culture of privilege in which young boys are protected from consequence or culpability.
A plan to save the Australian Catholic University’s accreditation has backfired spectacularly with the dismantling of its prestigious philosophy department less than five years on – leaving some of the world-class academics it courted considering legal action.
As academics strike at multiple universities, so-called sector reforms have turned what were places of higher learning and research into corporatised money makers.
The power of vice-chancellors and their empires of managers and administrators are hurting our universities’ ability to provide their core service – education.
