Australia and New Zealand

Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights

Australian and New Zealand open access advocates want more attention paid to ‘green’ model

The government’s new ‘national interest’ test for research proposals is another damaging symptom of short-termism, says Margaret Sheil

Universities must do a better job of showing how their research results in real-life benefits for society, Charles Clarke has argued

Australia’s chief scientist says universities can’t be expected to respond to the fast-paced changes in labour market demands

Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics

Asia-Pacific institutions are no longer just catching up, they are challenging the best. Phil Baty writes

Despite talk about Australia’s international education boom, the country’s sector has reason to be wary, as Phil Honeywood explains

Research benefits often unforeseeable but must be communicated

But experts ask how long country’s success can last in the face of rampant competition from Asia

Institutions that win performance-related funding will fall behind anyway, university group claims

University presses need to collaborate and think big in an uncertain marketplace, says UNSW executive