Around 7.5% of university government funding will be tied to performance measures, including graduate outcomes and participation rates of disadvantaged students.
Without proper assessment and evaluation, a university’s grants wheel can grind to a halt.
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Evaluation is a critical tool for decisions on improving performance. It also assures that African universities are getting value for money from grants, donations and the like.
Capital city universities can use income from foreign students to maintain their buildings. Their regional cousins are struggling.
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Labor’s main election promise for higher education is to restore the demand-driven system of funding, also known as scrapping the “cap” on government funding. Here’s why that would be a good policy.
Th University of Nairobi. Universities in Kenya are struggling to keep afloat.
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Jan Feld, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Nicolás Salamanca, The University of Melbourne, and Ulf Zoelitz, University of Zurich
As students return to campuses this week, new research shows universities could save money by not asking professors to teach tutorials because they are no more effective than student instructors.
Culture wars reignited between the government and the university sector in 2018.
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Tensions between the government and the university sector ran high in 2018, with the government cutting funding to student places and research and a big push back from universities.
OECD data can be a cherry-picker’s picnic in local higher education funding debates.
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Australian tertiary education policy and funding debates are better served by domestic data.
We need a tertiary education funding system that will help get students into courses with employment opportunities at the end of them.
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Most universities do, in fact, mention academic freedom in several policy documents, such as enterprise bargaining agreements and other codes of conduct.
Teacher training in South Africa is under enormous pressure.
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Australian higher education policy debates focus primarily on how and by whom universities are funded. This diminishes understanding of universities’ democratic purpose and wider social mission.
Despite the Federal Government’s teacher education reforms and the push for evidence-based teaching, less than 2% of ARC research funding is directed to educational research.
Universities shouldn’t ignore graduates once they leave the institution.
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The benefits of university are clear and measurable, but we can do more with constructive reform.
There is also strong public understanding of the benefits that flow from research undertaken in partnership between universities and other organisations.
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The freeze on university funding not only limits opportunities for students, it puts limitations on the communities unis serve, the economy, and business interested in forming collaborations.
Vice-chancellors often benchmark their salaries against comparable positions in other corporate sectors, a symptom of the trend towards the corporatisation of universities in Australia.
The uneven approach between VET and higher education in particular reflects an ongoing failure to conceive of the two as part of a single tertiary education system.
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New analysis of education expenditure shows spending on the vocational education and training sector has declined while other sectors have experienced growth.
Where to next on higher education reform?
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