In the Media

A new professional development program to help research students get their work out of the lab and into the business community has been launched by the Australian Technology Network of Universities. Read more

Australia’s biggest state has lodged a formal proposal to bring international students back into the country from “mid-year”, raising pressure on other states to follow suit – and on Canberra to approve the deal. Read more

ATN Executive Director, Luke Sheehy joins ausbiz to discuss Budget 2021-2022, Labor's 'Startup Year', how our universities have been impacted over the past year and why universities are the hub of entrepreneurs and start-ups. Read more

Australia’s opposition leader has flagged a new scheme to boost the commercialisation of university research, stealing a march on government reform plans in this area. Read more

Universities have welcomed a Labor plan to boost innovation with start up loans for entrepreneurs and a program for them to access university expertise. Read more

Australian National University vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt has called on the federal and state governments to bring a “can-do, problem-solving attitude” to Australia’s international border closure and allow low-risk foreign students back into the country. Read more

Many in the Australian higher education sector feel left behind in the 2021-22 Budget after a difficult financial year with reduced international student revenue. Read more

Deakin University has expressed its disappointment that the federal budget has not built on previous government investment for some university-delivered short courses. Read more

Universities are disappointed in the lack of support for higher education in the federal budget, which deals them a further setback by positing no full return of international students until at least 2023. Read more