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But study challenges idea that papers by colleagues of editors are of a lower quality

Funding guarantee ‘cost government nothing’ and funding reforms ‘delivered no extra students’, Senate estimates committee hears

‘Parallel universes’ promise more pain for international education, even as Covid finish line beckons

Ombudsman pledges crackdown if institutions fail to come clean

Governments are ‘critical stakeholders’ and do not take kindly to universities ‘crying poor’, says former media boss Mark Scott

Interdisciplinarity really matters now that automation is approaching its ‘crossover point’, Australian forum hears

But Queensland plan requires federal approval – and by the time it receives it, circumstances may have changed

Australian university applications and offers defy both Covid and Canberra

Peer review without transparency does not stave off potentially lethal misinformation, Open Access Week forum hears

Transparency ‘doesn’t go far enough’, says South Australian Greens MP

While federal agreement will be needed, Australian Capital Territory announcement boosts hopes of students’ return for 2022 academic year

‘Equity’ students’ post-course outcomes slant towards further study rather than work, Australian research finds

Springer pact follows agreement with Cambridge University Press, as other big publishers prepare to follow suit

Australian inquiry also recommends new national strategy, top-up funding and better union entry rights

New approach to academic misconduct slashes university workload and leaves a better taste in the mouth – for staff as well as students

Don’t allow confidentiality clauses over issues connected with intellectual freedom, says sacked professor

Minister’s assurances not ‘watertight guarantees’ that regular academic activities fall outside law’s purview

Constitutional lawyer says Australian case will help frame courts’ approach to academic freedom issues

Peter Ridd judgment may encourage universities to hide behind ‘confidentiality’ veil, transparency advocate warns

Union queries necessity, as sector braces for the loss of hundreds more positions

Scientists less likely to risk switching jobs despite rising fatigue, flagging morale and gender equity going backwards

While Australasian international education leaders are upbeat about vaccination, few expect ‘meaningful’ student arrivals any time soon

Huge study busts notion that everything worth knowing can be found in English-language journals

Sector should be ‘cyber-savvy’ but embrace Chinese STEM PhDs, conference hears

International students ‘look at Australia as one nation’, state-based education advocates stress

Northern rivals have stolen a march on sectors Down Under, whose recovery could be a long time coming

Australian surveys reveal primacy of vaccines for both inbound and outbound students

But employment rates for bachelor’s graduates ‘stabilise’ despite pandemic

Institutional leaders ‘don’t listen’, leaving line managers to provide little more than ‘palliative care’

Prospect of international student arrivals boosted by Sinovac approval and reopening of borders to Australian travellers

MPs tell Australian government to consult more on onerous aspects of its ‘critical infrastructure’ power push

Australian universities’ 2020 financial fortunes were little influenced by their dependence on overseas students

Australian researchers’ funding hopes hinge not on whether rule was wrong, but on whether wrong rule was applied correctly

Mood among academics, students and administrators swinging behind compulsory jabs

University ‘keen to engage’ staff and students on ‘merger’, while sidestepping inconsistencies in proposal

Policies geared to a ‘low-skilled guest worker society’ belie Australia’s pretensions to recruit the ‘best and brightest students’

Melbourne university cites occupational health obligations and students’ desperation to return to campus

Rare example of a reverse gender pay gap suggests that at least early on, female and male PhDs are on a level pay pegging

University leaders would not exercise freedom even if the state did not have them under its thumb, says Maszlee Malik

Non-metropolitan campuses in the box seat as pandemic escalates exodus from the cities

Nuclear submarine announcement elevates importance of universities’ soft power influence, says former PM

College’s defenders say its demise will dilute free expression, but education minister says its original critics opposed it for the same reason

AI expert re-emerges at top Chinese university as former employer finds Uighur study breached Australian research code

Despite scepticism about the business model, short courses prove an earner for cash-starved institutions

But thousands of Australian researchers remain in limbo, with reviled rule still in force for grants under consideration

Technologically proficient teachers ‘struggled just as much’ in pandemic-induced online stampede

Permanent rather than casual staff now being targeted, report suggests, but expert queries data underpinning the analysis

Acknowledgment comes days after apology from Melbourne

Researcher rating tool ‘corrects for most biases’ and allows comparisons across disciplines

Buyout could remove ‘particularly innovative competitor’, watchdog warns

Observers worry that treasured institution could fracture, just like the region’s political partnership

Melbourne team focuses on ‘unsexy’ end of the next big thing in biomedicine

South Pacific nations trade barbs as unique pan-national university enters world stage

Long-time leader’s departure amid casino furore follows withdrawal of Newcastle’s coal-aligned appointee

With land prices and Covid costs both ballooning, universities are selling up and retreating on to campus

Methodological issues in 2016 study will be addressed, representative body says

Gamification is not a magic bullet and it will not magically make the most boring task exciting, but it can be a catalyst for change

Fait accompli shutdown ‘a metaphor for the decline of Western liberalism in Asia’, say experts after Singapore decision

While Antipodean institutions have fended off competition from Asia, the full impacts of Covid are yet to flow through

Notions of reconciliation and treaty should be treated as ongoing journeys rather than destinations, summit hears