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

Economist says scrutiny could boost transparency of university accounts, provide benchmarking advice and avoid risky excesses

Management blamed for ‘constraining of voice’ that corrals public interventions into academics’ disciplinary areas

Australian research suggests swapping assignments is more prevalent than buying or selling them

A recently formed group and an attendant conference hope to bring greater attention to issues being faced in India

International action needed to eliminate ‘cloned journals’ that prey on early career researchers, says Indian research integrity adviser

Australian findings on receptiveness to Covid misinformation have implications for teaching as well as engagement

Hundreds of thousands of foreign students continue to be left out as classes resume in September  

Regents accept task force recommendation that namesake is a ‘symbol of colonialism’, although exact legacy less clear

Fears for physics pipeline as 32 researchers relinquish up to A$22m for citing preprints

Review of Australia’s research assessment exercise focused on known problems and left inadequate time to fix them, critic says

Government told to disclose impacts on academics as outrage escalates over preprints rule

Australia’s largest regional university the latest to choose a leader from outside academia

Proposed redundancies target science, engineering and IT – disciplines supposedly favoured by funding reforms

Analysis of Australian job advertisements points to recovery, particularly in non-traditional research

Manipulated data in study of truth and behaviour threatens career of popular TED Talk star Dan Ariely

Former foreign students recount memorable experiences in world’s most isolated country, including being openly spied on by their hosts

Series of analyses in JAMA concludes that a promise to achieve greater racial balance in training doctors remains largely unfulfilled

While the dangers can be extreme in autocracies and war zones, nowhere is immune

ARC says it communicated rule change clearly, but applicants say it forces them to plagiarise to qualify for funding

One in five public health researchers pressured to conceal or change their findings, study finds

Some students still cheat despite thinking it is illegal, international survey finds

New paper dismantles arguments for higher education’s latest ‘craze’

Electoral rather than immunological considerations could determine when international students are allowed into Australia

Strategist also warns that politicisation of funding means universities in countries most dependent on the government would fare worst

Tanya Plibersek proposes accord with political opponents, while former Liberals accuse ex-colleagues of lacking leadership

Education minister concedes impact of plummeting international enrolments, but says things would be worse without intervention

EY ‘thought experiment’ probes a 2030 where teaching costs have evaporated and universities have lost their primacy

Access and safety in the one package, as island nation banks its Covid management success

Voluntary principles may be a fait accompli, with chancellors who endorsed them also sitting on remuneration committees

Australian epidemiologists pressed to defend unscientific aspects of lockdowns, as politicians exaggerate the evidence base

Vice-chancellors acted like fawning retail attendants in Pretty Woman, former prime minister says

Sydney and UNSW vow to collaborate more, while shrugging off snarky stereotypes

Pal Ahluwalia to run multi-country university from Samoa, as audit clears management of breaches

Asia operations are either being expanded or newly opened as the countries' universities aim to keep students engaged and enrolled

Many might be digital natives, but students warm to academics’ warts-and-all e-learning efforts

Whitlam and HECS fostered a ‘social psychology’ of indifference towards higher education, Australasian conference hears

Thousands of university students are now living under strict quarantine rules to meet local regulations

Continuing students slow to return despite government green light, while visa applications from first-timers are binned

Education minister cites buoyant student experience ratings as evidence of the country’s ‘fundamentals’

Course cut critics castigate Australian institution for using data selectively, as sociologists elsewhere watch on nervously

Investment in education services provider IDP set to pay multimillion-dollar dividends as students use its language tests to head to Canada and UK

Comparison websites on the way as admissions centres reinvent their services amid emerging needs and demographic change

While humanity’s coexistence with nature is not always harmonious, Cosmos Prize winner says it can be hard to pick the aggressor

Departing Australian human rights commissioner expects v-cs to be among the students of his new AI ethics initiative

Discussion document seeks feedback on vision of international education Utopia

Traditional worries like cost and job prospects trump would-be international students’ safety and travel concerns, survey finds

Campaigners at Boğaziçi University say their victory could inspire others – but also fear a harsher crackdown under a new appointee

Formalised defence R&D ties could recoup one-quarter of the research funds lost from Australia’s ailing international education industry

New study raises questions over validity of single studies and suggests detailed tracking of researchers’ decisions during analysis

Veterinary schools lead campaign protesting regulatory obstacles applied to an array of food-related genomic research

Sydney academic orchestrated campaign after striking resistance to course closure

Controversy over honorary degree granted by Edith Cowan University highlights the risks of awarding so many

Economist’s ordeal highlights the risks of lone advisory roles in unstable countries

Notwithstanding their generosity in 2020, most university leaders will be back to seven-figure earnings as the crisis really bites

Research teams worked separately to investigate similar problems when combined studies might have delivered meaningful results

Hundreds of roles at risk as fresh wave of coronavirus restrictions sweeps across country

Years of restrictions have stymied scholars’ work on topics such as the Algerian war of independence, and a new law could cement this lack of access

Paid time off for gender affirmation among the latest categories of special purpose leave demanded of universities

Four different datasets, four different stories: Australian university staffing statistics ‘impossible to reconcile’