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Disengaged and failing students are an issue worth policy attention
The draft legislation for the Tehan higher education package, released on Tuesday, includes several previously unannounced measures. These include new – or least new for public universities – rules...
View ArticleChecking that students are on track to pass – the government’s proposal
My previous post argued that some university students needlessly incur HELP debts and fails on their academic record. This post looks in more detail at several measures proposed in new legislation to...
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Should students lose Commonwealth support for failing too many subjects?
My previous post explained various measures proposed in new government legislation to reduce how many students fail subjects. These include restrictions on marketing to students who may not be...
View ArticleRecurrent critiques, concerns and crises in Australian higher education
In a previous post on Gwil Croucher and James Waghorne’s Australian Universities: A History of Common Cause, I noted a range of significant changes in Australian higher education over the last...
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University offers under Job-ready Graduates
In an earlier post I looked at how university applicants responded to COVID-19 and the new Job-ready Graduates student contributions. In this post I look at how universities responded, based on the...
View ArticleFor universities the Accord interim report proposes a more extreme version of...
The Australian Universities Accord interim report recommends overturning the most controversial Job-ready Graduates policy, using student contribution price signals to guide student course choices....
View ArticleMapping Australian higher education 2023 – official release
Mapping Australian higher education 2023 is now available from the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods website.
View ArticleThe complex rules around admitting, funding and supporting higher education...
[Update 18/12/2023: Some parts of this post have been revised as the enacted student support guidelines replaced the draft guidelines. The revisions are noted in the text.] The support for students...
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What’s going on with domestic undergraduate numbers? Part 1, Demographic...
Higher education enrolment data for 2022 was released on Monday. Overall enrolments fell 3.2% in 2022 compared to 2021. A 1.9% increase in international student numbers partly offset a 5.1% decline in...
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Creating a better integrated education system – some notes on Rethinking...
Peter Noonan was a rare person with expertise across vocational and higher education, and an even rarer person who made significant policy contributions to both. Sadly he passed away in 2022 at the...
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