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Science and gender equity advocate to become first female leader of Australia’s top research institution

Rather than railing at those who control the purse strings, help them solve their problems, says regulator

Educators must take responsibility for their own contribution to the crisis, forum hears

Canberra’s international education crackdown is sapping sector of funds to diversify, forum hears

Professor Brian Cox and Sire Andre Geim to give keynote speeches at THE World Academic Summit 2024

Veteran leader Stephen Parker recalled as institution battles deficit blowout and questions over governance

Code-of-silence mentality encourages blunt measures that hamper benign activities while overlooking legitimate threats, says expert

Forcing Australian institutions to manage scheme raises workload, privacy and taxation issues, Senate committee hears

Top universities have feasted on international students this year while other institutions withered

Critics question upfront expense, cost effectiveness, timeline and viability of Waikato proposal

Administrators’ tolerance for ‘unacceptable’ behaviour tempered by ‘politicised’ winds, witnesses suggest

State must step in, according to submissions to major university review

Passions run deep, as views on proposed commission of inquiry split mostly along political lines

Caps proposal sparks public spat among political stablemates, as analysis of social media chatter suggests student sentiment is plunging

Staff get a say on how, but not whether, to ditch lectures at merged university

Third edition of THE event solidifies global commitment to sustainable development

Offshore outposts could help cultivate talent for an economic giant in demographic decline

Paper gains masked last year’s losses but harder times lie ahead, watchdog warns

College closures and job losses ‘inevitable’ as enrolment caps loom and visa waits lengthen

Senate committee inquiry extended as members scrutinise impacts on vocational colleges

Both sides of Australian politics need to stop treating universities as ‘a political pawn’

Graduates now keenly aware of loan scheme rules and how to avoid debt blowouts, figures suggest

Author says country should acknowledge forces to suppress academic expression, irrespective of their ideological roots 

Process for limiting international student recruitment ‘like a game of musical chairs’, Senate committee hears

Mandating longer study abroad stints will sideline the students who benefit most and cannot manage independent travel, practitioners warn

Serving minister and former prime ministerial aspirant to lead capital city university

Pay negotiations ‘proceeding well’, administrators insist, amid argy-bargy on both sides of the Tasman

Regional institutions hope to benefit as they are handed quotas higher than current numbers at expense of rich Group of Eight universities. But will effect of the policy merely put students off Australia altogether?

Latest figures showing that growth has fallen to lowest level in decades should be a ‘wake-up call’ for government, says Universities Australia

Increased American targeting of foreign enrolments expected to prompt policy response and reduce competitor countries’ access to ‘low-risk’ students

Institution that dispensed the highest vice-chancellor remuneration in sector’s history looking at course and job cuts

Universities may be discouraged from taking on displaced students for fear of them counting towards their quota, policy expert warns

Top-tier institutions accused of not engaging with concerns about scale of overseas cohorts

But flaws in controversial bill are already creating problems, according to top legal scholar and university leader

Metric used to inform new policy adds to confusion for top-ranked institutions while other vice-chancellors welcome ‘certainty’ provided by their allocations

Australian scholars say improving response times make website ‘an appealing tool’ for cheating, but findings are disputed

Newly announced quota ‘like a levy by stealth’, analyst says, as universities evaluate the impact at institutional level

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’

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

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

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

‘We all fare better if we work together,’ says Washington lobbyist, as US turns a corner in its approach to foreign students

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

City dwellers appreciate international students’ economic contribution but think they add to housing unaffordability

Liberals ‘reserve position’ on international student bill, as Australian government pledges to release ‘indicative’ caps

As they brace for big policy shifts, inflation and flat domestic demand have left Australian universities more vulnerable than before Covid

Fee hike follows similar move in Australia, but from a much lower base

Australian stakeholders applaud indigenous focus but stress need for planning and resourcing

Higher education staff missing opportunity to use generative AI tools to relieve them from routine tasks, Australian survey finds

At least half of the incidents had ‘no connection’ with the university, according to report

Not international, not domestic, no networks, transient mindset: new support group raises the bar for students from forced migration backgrounds

Proposal denigrated as ‘wealth tax’ better than the alternative, architect says, as Australian universities unite to oppose caps

Environment, safety and friendliness prove pluses, but cost and work experience ‘remain biggest challenges’

Canberra should avoid unnecessary damage by waiting to assess the impact of no fewer than nine other policy changes, professor says