Australia and New Zealand

If the choice is between impact factor and maintaining the content’s integrity, there is little contest

No currently enrolled students will be disadvantaged, bureaucrat insists, despite quarrels over data and assessment that bill ‘is more suited to national security legislation’

Firm whose lawyer helped initiate ACU saga handed job of finding leakers

With a six-month sunset and short-term contracts off the table, administrators can no longer rely on insecure teachers for certainty

Security expert questions the approach, amid reports of Australia’s first ‘nationality ban’

Canberra yet to clarify future of ‘ministerial direction 107’ despite touting enrolment caps as a replacement

Opacity is a feature of a university sector that has ‘lost its way’, according to Australia’s newest sector leader

After waiting years for their visas, Australia-bound PhD candidates find that their university places have evaporated

Speculation over imagined backstabbings and betrayals is rife but the joining of two of Australia’s universities is more of a meeting of minds than clash of clans, insist vice-chancellors Peter Høj and David Lloyd

Vice-chancellor says it is ‘fine’ for international students to make up nearly half of Melbourne’s enrolments

University lobby demands revocation of ‘ministerial direction 107’, after education minister insists student quotas will be a ‘better mechanism’

Short-stay students should be exempted from both quotas and fee hike, says representative body