Australia and New Zealand

Delight and alarm in equal measures, as political manoeuvres and drafting technicalities limit both casual employment and its antidote

As Australia’s climate turns back again, universities say the lessons of a horror summer have not been forgotten

Sacked neuropathologist Manuel Graeber says university was happy with his work before he lodged disclosure about management

AI is helping us mine 200,000 stakeholders’ ideas, sensible and silly, about core elements of the new Adelaide University, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd

Free tuition also to be switched from first to last year of tertiary study, under pact between new governing parties

With potentially worrying changes to Australia’s research security arrangements odds-on to proceed, universities want clarification on amendments

Australian universities say remit of proposed watchdog needs ‘detailed examination’

Court case raises conflict between academic freedom and universities’ duty of care, says barrister

Top-ranked institutions’ contribution to equity should go further than ‘picking the top 10 students from every school’, experts say

Auckland failed to give public commentary the level of occupational protection that would be mandatory in the laboratory, says colleague of Siouxsie Wiles

‘Core recruitment practices’ without quotas reduced gender parity timeline from 60 years to five

Higher study can mean little to one’s pay packet and can in some cases reduce it, says research that raises questions about Universities Accord’s expansionary vision