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Scientist Euan Ritchie has turned to crowdfunding for a research project.

‘Complete joke’: Efforts to reduce funding wait times ends with longer blowout

A long campaign to improve Australia’s sclerotic research bureaucracy has culminated in an extraordinary blowout to grant approval times, leaving scientists despondent.

  • Liam Mannix

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The average ATAR for teaching students was 71, compared to the university average of 78.

Revealed: Hundreds of school-leavers with ATARs of less than 50 offered teaching spots

A leading education academic says the ‘downward trend’ is ‘concerning’.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Mimi Highgate, 14, takes part in the Hands on Learning program at Mount Eliza Secondary College.

Trouble getting your kids to school? So do many Australians

Since the pandemic, a lot of Australian students are missing school, but programs like Hands On Learning have helped students like Mimi Highgate re-engage, and even find a sense of belonging.

  • Nicole Precel
The state government is being criticised for its schools funding.

State’s ‘accounting tricks’ shortchange schools by $1.37 billion

The Victorian government is accused of a huge underspend on government schools.

  • Noel Towell
The hits keep coming for the Liberal and National parties with Education Minister Jason Clare comparing their falling out to that of the Beckhams.
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They make the Beckhams look like a happy family: Clare

The hits keep coming for the Liberal and National parties with Education Minister Jason Clare comparing their falling out to that of the Beckhams.

Labor MP Josh Burns consoles Mark Dreyfus after he spoke during a condolence motion for the victims of the Bondi antisemitic terror attack.

‘Disappointment, anger, betrayal’: Amid condolences, the Bondi blame game continues

The rancour of question time was suspended, and tears were shed. But a parliament without politics was too much to ask for, even on a day suffused with grief. 

  • Matthew Knott
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The University of Sydney was the only one of 32 universities to have their request for extra international students knocked back.

Sydney Uni singled out to get no extra international students next year

The sandstone university was the only institution to be knocked back in its bid to host a share of 17,500 extra foreign student places.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare.

Revealed: The date HECS debts will be slashed by 20 per cent

The federal government has announced when the ATO will begin processing legislated cuts to student debt.

  • Nick Newling
Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

University cannot serve this generation as it did mine – and I’m in grief

Australia’s forlorn tertiary education system needs a massive overhaul, as do the people running it.

  • Jenna Price
Genevieve Bell and Julie Bishop.

Bishop stares down critics as embattled ANU vice chancellor resigns

The university’s chancellor, Julie Bishop, announced the move in a short statement posted to the institution’s website on Thursday.

  • Christopher Harris, Natassia Chrysanthos and Nick Newling