Professionalism lacking in university teaching
Publication | 24 April 2012 | Andrew Norton
University teaching never developed into a proper profession, making managerial intervention necessary argues Andrew Norton.
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Science graduates outnumber science jobs
Publication | 11 April 2012 | Andrew Norton
The Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, says that we need more science graduates. The employment data suggests that many science graduates are already working in jobs that do not require a science degree, and that bachelor-level science qualifications increase the risk of not finding high-skill work.
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Higher education pricing
Publication | 20 March 2012 | Andrew Norton
Policy tensions exist in Australia's higher education funding system with several vice-chancellors recently calling for partial deregulation of student contributions. A more market-based higher education system would avoid major problems of the current system, but bring some of its own.This should not stop the evolutionary movement towards a more market-based system, one that will give more scope to student choices, and place less reliance on unreliable regulators.
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More women, more students, more diversity
Publication | 28 Feb 2012 | Andrew Norton
Higher education is in the midst of profound change, writes Andrew Norton in his regular Age column. One in 18 Australian residents is now a higher education student, and enrolments have more than doubled in the past 20 years. Nearly 60% of students are women, and nearly 30% come from overseas. With 40% of students now in full fee-paying places, we are closer to a market in higher education than at any time in Australia's history.
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Mapping Australian higher education
Publication | 29 Jan 2012 | Andrew Norton
Australia's higher education system is entering one of its most significant years in recent history. To meet a government goal of 40% of young Australian adults holding a bachelor's degree or above by 2025, restrictions on undergraduate student numbers have been lifted: public universities can now offer as many or as few places as they choose in almost any course.
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The Rights of International Students
Publication | 24 January 2012 | Andrew Norton
Public hospitals refusing to admit pregnant international students. Government schools charging fees to the children of international students. International students having to pay full public transport fares. These international student entitlement issues made the news last year. They are all aspects of a much bigger issue: what rights and entitlements should be available to non-citizens with long-term but temporary residence rights?
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Australian higher education: trends, policies, performance
Event | 9 February 2012 |
What is going on in Australian higher education? Andrew Norton, Grattan Institute's Higher Education Program Director, discussed the program's first report with Julie Hare, Higher Education editor at The Australian, at this public event in Sydney.
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Subsidy review plan neither fair nor enticing.
Publication | 14 December 2011 | Andrew Norton
The latest review of university funding has not come up with a convincing basis for allocating higher education tuition subsidies.
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Filling the university information gap
Publication | 8 November 2011 | Andrew Norton
The Ombudsman claims that international students are being admitted with inadequate English proficiency and sometimes passed when they should fail. More independent information on students' prospects and performance would help protect international students and their future employers.
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The Rise of University Rankings
Publication | 12 October 2011 | Andrew Norton
Australian universities hope to improve their positions in world university rankings. But students may pay the price.
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The University Gender Gap
Publication | 6 September 2011 | Andrew Norton
Nearly 60% of university enrolments are women, who have improved their relative position in every year but one since 1957. What does this mean for the prospects of young men?
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How to Create a World Class University
Event | 28 July 2011 | Professor Andrew Hamilton
In an era of globalisation, everyone wants to be world class. But what is the real measure of a world class university, and what does it take to get there?
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