Australia and New Zealand

Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests

Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit

Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students

Vocational and higher education get equal billing, as Australian university groups unite in jobs-focused election spiel

Police, politicians, doctors, cleaners and school students share Southern Cross campus as an emergency base

Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’

Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students – and the ‘balancing act’ required of their lecturers

Dispute over indigenous knowledge ‘not amenable to resolution’, investigation panel finds, as New Zealand society pledges ‘helpful and constructive’ dialogue

Proposal to ‘link performance and funding’ the latest in an interventionist trend

Veto powers not unique to the ARC, medical research funder says – although they are not exercised elsewhere

IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle

Top Australian university sidelined from rich fellowship scheme over ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity in honorary doctorates