ATN In The Media

University students are well rehearsed in juggling work with study, all while being thrifty. But they say the escalating cost of living and housing is forcing some students to drop out and others are facing homelessness. A group of universities is now calling on the Federal Government to help ease the pressure. 

The Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) has submitted its pre-budget paper to the federal government, calling for cost of living assistance for students and an overhauled strategy for international education.

The Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) members will play a lead role in the Federal Government’s Startup Year program, helping […]

Australia’s technology universities have called on the Albanese government to sidestep current constraints on spending with a “long-term and progressive plan of action” to improve post-school education.

Higher education had a supporting part at the Jobs and Skills Summit. The Australian Technology Network wants to them back top of the bill

The Senate committee inquiring into the two bills to establish JSA recommends them

It’s just over three months into Albanese era and the new government is slowly and steadily picking up the reins in higher education policy.

For universities it hasn’t been a bad ride. Labor’s ministers and advisers are accessible to the sector. They’ve been listening and the result, in this early period, has been the removal of some irritating stones in the shoes.

Before the talking started at the Jobs and Skills summit started the prime minister announced state and Commonwealth funding for 60 000 new fee-free TAFE places (and 120 000 places which will shift from fee to free), agreed at National Cabinet on Wednesday.  

Two dozen representatives from Australian science, research, universities, defence, and investment attended Industry minister Ed Husic’s Science and Commercialisation skills roundtable.

Australian universities will bid for the allocation of 20,000 new government funded places set aside for areas of need and students from underrepresented backgrounds, the federal government announced Wednesday.