Australian universities ‘singled out’ over ‘Frankenstein’ courses Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations John Ross 2月 23日
Students embraced in Australian dole boost Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments John Ross 2月 23日
Teqsa to consult on timing of research quality baselines Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them John Ross 2月 22日
Worse redundancy terms ‘key trade-off for more permanent jobs’ Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts John Ross 2月 21日
Australia’s higher education sector must be segmented Different university groupings should have strong, distinctive capabilities that address specific markets, says John H. Howard John H. Howard 2月 18日
Cross-subsidisation ‘provoked Australian funding overhaul’ Author of a comprehensive appraisal of university finances says officials want universities to keep money flows on the straight and narrow John Ross 2月 17日
Australian government position on language closures sparks confusion Education department asserts right to approve language course closures while insisting that it ‘does not intervene’ John Ross 2月 17日
Bureaucratic oversight helped seal language courses’ fate Australian department ‘erroneously’ removed protection for former education minister’s pet courses John Ross 2月 15日
Foreign scholars ‘will avoid Pacific universities’ after Fiji row Deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia is latest crisis to afflict a Western administrator in region John Ross 2月 15日
Covid ‘threat’ to Australian postgraduate ranks Warnings that some universities could become master’s-free zones overlook progress during the pandemic, vice-chancellors say John Ross 2月 14日
Colleagues and family ‘distraught’ over academic’s Myanmar arrest As military overlords revert to type, concerns mount over fate of detained Australian economist John Ross 2月 10日