Credentialism has distorted the direction and basis of half a century’s education and training policy, argues Dean Ashenden.

The university sector, comprised of the eight Victorian universities, generated a net surplus of $509.1 million for the year to 31 December 2015. This continues a strong financial result for the sector, which has generated similar surpluses in each of the past five years. The sector has been assessed as a low financial sustainability risk...

The principle which informs DASSH’s submission is our commitment to multiple pathways for admission to universities, recognising both the value to individuals, communities and the nation of access to higher education and the variety of prior educational, employment, family and other circumstances that cannot be appropriately dealt with through a single admission pathway.

In response to a Government request, the Productivity Commission is currently undertaking an inquiry into ‘new models of tertiary education’. At a time when the technological and social climate is changing so rapidly that our current model is struggling to keep up, this inquiry presents an opportunity for the Institute to set out ideas we...

The number of students with disability in higher education is increasing. National data reveal differences in the retention and success of these students across Australian higher education institutions but the reasons for this are not clear. The overarching aim of this study was to explore the relationship between supports and university adjustment for students with...