Hundreds more jobs at risk at RMIT Latest revelations continue horror week for the Australian sector By John Ross 17 September
Geopolitical ructions ‘a more enduring problem’ than pandemic Australian forum hears that reduced ‘flow across borders’ could be an ongoing reality By John Ross 16 September
More than 200 jobs to go at Australian National University Latest losses bring national coronavirus tally to about 11,000 jobs, excluding casual and fixed term positions By John Ross 16 September
Australia urged to refocus on quantitative research post-Covid Australian sector must use ‘radical reset’ opportunity to refocus from grand challenges to the expertise needed to achieve them, says report By John Ross 15 September
Tasmanian v-c offers key backing for Australian reforms Island state university’s stance could prove pivotal, with bill’s future hingeing on Tasmanian senator’s vote By John Ross 15 September
Australian reforms workable with amendments, say universities ‘Lock in’ funding boosts through legislation and abandon punitive auditing measures, Senate committee submissions say By John Ross 14 September
China experts fear ‘chilling effect’ of Australian visa repeals Chinese translators the latest victims as Australia’s security state applies the thumbscrews By John Ross 13 September
Australia ‘copying China’ by excluding foreign academics As Australia struggles to defend its civic values from foreign interference, critics say translators’ banning shows those values are being undermined from within By John Ross 11 September
Peter Rathjen: Adelaide crisis forces sector-wide soul-searching Interstate universities drawn into scandal amid questions over how serial predator kept getting promoted By John Ross 11 September
Australia has been generous, international students say New developments suggest Covid fallout may not be as devastating as feared for international education flows By John Ross 9 September
Australia cancels Chinese scholars’ visas Literature specialists barred as Australia’s relationship with China sinks another notch By John Ross 9 September
Australian academics muzzled and journal papers altered: survey Self-censorship, fuelled by fears of media misrepresentation and overstepping expertise, is more problematic than external suppression By John Ross 9 September
