A truly excellent piece of work by @guycurtis10.bsky.social and @cathellis13.bsky.social A must read for everyone in higher ed and VET - including ASQA after their first attempt to cancel a provider for not identifying contract cheating by students was thrown out by the Admin Review Tribunal

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

When Amina Al-Mufti left the home her family was sheltering in, her parents expected she would quickly return with a bucket full of water. But she never came back.

More top #highered reporting ⁦‪from Julie Hare AFR. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

There is no financial crisis. This is Macquarie uni balance sheet

7/ Specialist teaching is replaced with generic faculty wide units with 1000 + students, mostly online and no F2F tutorials. Macquarie wants to introduce a 'common first year' to the BA - so discipline content will be confined to 2nd and 3rd year - six units in total. No electives/option sets.

3/ My own discipline of sociology is losing 11 of 14 academics yet we have had a 65% increase in student enrolments this year and have more students than areas not being cut. Same story for other areas being hit with staff cuts.

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

3 pages of sensible recommendations in the just released Interim Report of the Senate inquiry into university governance www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.

“Businesses talk a big game about… competition, how it brings out the best of them. But when a 16-year-old on $39,559 is considered such a threat to a business’s survival that they’re barred from colouring the hair of anyone in suburban Canberra, I call bullsh*t.” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

The Australian National University abandons its plans for forced redundancies as part of its efforts to cut costs.

If you want to speak with amazing people I highly recommend starting a podcast! On this episode I'm joined by Prof. Chris Moran, VC of UNE. If you don't have time to start a podcast - then have a listen - UNE is offering such important opportunities for so many people

Unsafe conditions, imminent risk www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906834...

Sign the petition to sanction Israel now: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...

@sarahschwartz.bsky.social on ABC talking about our ad featuring Jews calling to sanction Israel NOW for the genocide in Gaza. The ad comes as the UN has released an authoritative report stating that Israel is committing a genocide. We need this message to be heard by ALL Australians.

Congrats RMIT Vietnam - 25 years is a great achievement 👏👏 www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-new...

Offensive conducted as UN inquiry concludes that Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza amounts to genocide.

As ICE hunted for campus activists to deport this spring, they sent administrative subpoenas to Google and Meta about Cornell students Momodou Taal and Amandla Thomas-Johnson. Google complied with the subpoena about Thomas-Johnson's account without notifying him. theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

Well done to Monash Uni for the role of its “World Mosquito Program” in this really important work

Prof. Ian Chubb, former VC at ANU, on what went wrong at the ANU and what needs to change (I served on the Michael Chaney-led International Education Advisory Council with Prof. Chubb and learned a lot from him - a deeply impressive man) www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906608...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...?

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural. This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it. doi.org/10.25911/MWW... A thread:

Nuns on the run! What glorious women ❤️

“It is striking how one death prompts moral urgency from those who may have criticised many of the views of the man himself, while a daily reality of dozens killed and hundreds illegally detained is met with crickets.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

This is the result of the rise and spread of fascist discourse and action in recent years, and this is the UK, where noone has any guns. This is not OK.

The day after the ANU Vice Chancellor's resignation, the presentation she made to Council for the job cuts has been made public under FOI.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, I request access to copies of the following documents: The paper and presentation, on the proposed $250 million budget restructure, that was noted by ANU Council on 9th August 2024. The paper ...

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

OVER 1500 PALESTINIANS ABDUCTED AND DETAINED AFTER THE OCCUPATION RAIDED HOMES, SHOPS, FACTORIES, & THE STREETS OF TULKARM, WEST BANK @albomp.bsky.social Is this the red line or do we wait til Israel has murdered all in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen #auspol #charliekirk #distraction #lookhere

An excellent piece, really well argued: prioritise skilled migration & promptly process visas for families of Aus citizens “Critics may worry that such reforms would blow out migration numbers. In reality, the impact on Net Overseas Migration (NOM) would be minimal.” 360info.org/reforming-au...

Daniel Raab grew up in Naperville. Attended Naperville Central High. Enjoys privilege as a white American. Attends UIUC. Went to Israel. Joined the IDF. Became a sniper. Shot Palestinians for fun. Shot a man who ran to save his murdered brother. Shot the man who ran to get his sons' bodies.

It’s impossible to read this without feeling appalled and deeply moved www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rally to save Meanjin magazine Thursday 11 Sept 9am 715 Swanston St Carlton A number of Australian writers, editors and academics will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

BREAKING: At least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jyzzrz

A real privilege to speak with Dr Tabatha Griffin (National Centre for Vocational Education Research), Tamie Cousins & Elcin Gul (Melbourne Polytechnic) on the latest episode of the podcast about their work encouraging great VET educators. Out now:

Amazing contrast between the evidence given to the Senate inquiry into university governance yesterday by @westernsydneyu.bsky.social Chancellor Jennifer Westacott & Vice Chancellor George Williams - and the media release from AHEIA the peak body for university VCs on industrial relations matters

The AFR’s Julie Hare with a lot more detail on what’s apparently happening at the ANU www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Just so unbelievably exhausting that an entire mini-industry of punditry built themselves a following for "defending free speech" by yelling at college kids who don't think Nazis deserve to speak at the Harvard Student Union, only to disappear when real, top down cancellations actually materialized.

This was twenty-two months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,186 kids since.

I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

The Trump administration has demanded that Gregory Washington, president of George Mason University, personally apologize for supporting diversity programs. He said no. nyti.ms/4nheE3Q

This is a very cool article on a deeply under-researched topic.

#MorningVibe This sculpture depicts a woman carrying a burden of household items, symbolizing the weight of domestic responsibilities often borne by women, while children cling to her, representing the generational impact of this burden. #ArtAsResistance

Looking at UK changes from Oz - in 11 yrs we’ve had 3 Skills England equivalents + 4 departments: 2014-19 - Dept of Education & Training 2019-20 - Dept of Employment, Skills, Small & Family Business 2020-22 - Dept of Education, Skills & Employment 2022 - Dept of Employment & Workplace Relations

The Nightly is reporting that ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop has been on campus meeting one-on-one with staff - amid speculation that VC Prof. Genevieve Bell may be moved on, although the university spokesperson appears to rule it out: thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...

Disappointing to see a decline in government-funded students in VET in 2024 - the first year of the National Skills Agreement. My analysis of the latest NCVER stats: clairefield.com.au/who-studied-...

SafeWork NSW orders UTS to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’