Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education

This first comprehensive history of Australia’s university sector explores how universities work and for whom, and how their relationship with each other, their academics and students and the public has evolved over a century.

Australian universities are confronting a firestorm, the loss of foreign students, the layoff of academics, the underpayment of staff and radical changes to domestic university fees.Why is our university sector in so much trouble?

Response to the Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020.

Some possible trends and their implications for Australian higher education following the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the responses of providers and governments.

What will they be after coronavirus?

A guide offering practical advice on moving from closed-book examinations to open-book, remote assessment.

Focussing on three perspectives , this paper provides a useful framework for how those new to online teaching may promote student engagement in online learning.

A guide offering practical advice for improving students' online learning experiences.

To support staff in (re)designing their assessment, the Melbourne CSHE is offering weekly virtual office hours with an assessment expert who will discuss alternative assessment options and answer assessment-related questions.

University engagement will and should ‘look different’ in 2020.

3MT® challenges PhD candidates to present their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience in the space of three minutes.