4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (624+ words) Australia will harness lessons from the hospital system in overhauling the unpopular Job-ready Graduates (JRG) scheme of university fees and subsidies – but creating the “massive data collection” needed to inform a new pricing regime will be a mammoth task, an…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (726+ words) The representative body for Australian universities has called for an urgent stocktake of student finances, saying current welfare settings were designed before Covid-19, war and supply chain chaos caused runaway inflation. A Universities Australia (UA) analysis has found that students…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (670+ words) Australia’s oldest universities have discarded their guaranteed entry schemes for top-performing high school students, amid rolling changes to the funding of undergraduate degrees. The University of Melbourne has removed Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) guarantees for admission into its courses…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1029+ words) A group of international students at the University of Manchester say their future plans have been ruined after they were told their courses were ending months earlier than expected. Despite understanding their programme would run until the end of September,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (658+ words) Australia’s opposition has vowed not to oppose the higher education funding overhaul in federal parliament’s lower house, pending a Senate inquiry. Andrew Wallace, deputy chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, said the opposition coalition would wave…...