Australian universities ‘singled out’ over ‘Frankenstein’ courses Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations By John Ross 23 February
Students embraced in Australian dole boost Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments By John Ross 23 February
Teqsa to consult on timing of research quality baselines Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them By John Ross 22 February
Worse redundancy terms ‘key trade-off for more permanent jobs’ Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts By John Ross 21 February
Australian international education ‘in doldrums until 2023’ Industry operatives’ worst fears could cost universities thousands of staff and country tens of billions of dollars By John Ross 18 February
Australia’s higher education sector must be segmented Different university groupings should have strong, distinctive capabilities that address specific markets, says John H. Howard By John H. Howard 18 February
Cross-subsidisation ‘provoked Australian funding overhaul’ Author of a comprehensive appraisal of university finances says officials want universities to keep money flows on the straight and narrow By John Ross 17 February
Australian government position on language closures sparks confusion Education department asserts right to approve language course closures while insisting that it ‘does not intervene’ By John Ross 17 February
Bureaucratic oversight helped seal language courses’ fate Australian department ‘erroneously’ removed protection for former education minister’s pet courses By John Ross 15 February
Foreign scholars ‘will avoid Pacific universities’ after Fiji row Deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia is latest crisis to afflict a Western administrator in region By John Ross 15 February
Covid ‘threat’ to Australian postgraduate ranks Warnings that some universities could become master’s-free zones overlook progress during the pandemic, vice-chancellors say By John Ross 14 February
Colleagues and family ‘distraught’ over academic’s Myanmar arrest As military overlords revert to type, concerns mount over fate of detained Australian economist By John Ross 10 February
