The Fogarty Foundation has called for a national AI literacy curriculum and stricter regulation after consulting hundreds of young people on their use of the technology.
Curtin University has accused the Cook government of creating “lasting damage” by using misinformation in the “largest and most disruptive” university merger plan “in Australian history”.
Tertiary Education Minister Tony Buti has again attacked the salaries of university administrators and executives, saying they earn a total of more than $36 million a year.
OPINION: There could be an unexpected winner from the state government's plan to merge Curtin, Murdoch and UWA – and it might not be any of the three universities involved.
Opposition leader Basil Zempilas has taken a swipe at businessman Mark Barnaba, the chair of the state government's university merger steering committee.
In Labor Party circles the name Curtin is revered and celebrated, which poses another question about the Cook government's contentious plan to merge the tertiary institution - named after Australia's war-time prime minster - with two other universities.
OPINION: Most vice-chancellors hope to leave their university in better shape than they found it – and none of them expects to leave behind an institution that no longer exists.
The opposition has accused the Cook government of relying on a report containing errors and “AI slop” to prosecute the case for merging three WA universities into one.
Australian Institute of Management WA chief executive Gary Martin casts an eye over the role of people in the proposed merger of three WA universities.
The state government's plan for a merger has been met with apprehension from Western Australian universities, which the Education Minister described as 'disappointing'.
WA enterprises across mining, energy, and agriculture could soon tap into next-generation computational muscle following an agreement between the University of Western Australia and quantum computing leader Quantinuum.
The University of Western Australia has received the final approval for its second campus in India, as part of the institution's $80 million investment for international expansion.
Curtin University has put on hold planned upgrades to its Kalgoorlie housing, despite a panel recently approving $15 million worth of works at the student accommodation.
The University of Western Australia has launched its first international campus, opening in Mumbai in a move Roger Cook hailed as a step for WA-India relations.