Australia and New Zealand

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

New Australian arrangement hailed as long overdue by many, but critics warn of unintended consequences

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Point-in-time study quantifies pandemic’s differential impacts on academics with children – particularly mothers

Go8 questions outsiders’ commitment to research, after advisory body raises doubts over education’s contribution to productivity

Other suggestions to ease military skill shortages include funding future reservists’ studies and ‘opening up’ to international students

While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees

Student union demands overhaul as post-Covid cost pressures exacerbate student poverty

Policymakers will need to work out exactly what ‘equity’ means before entrenching it in new funding arrangements

Australia’s new Labor government must allow more fee flexibility for high-cost degree subjects otherwise genuine student choice will disappear, say Robert Griew and Ian Anderson

Data theft from health insurance giant stokes fears that students could be targeted by hackers or their impersonators

Melbourne boss explains why knowledge is service, and why unbridled casualisation would displease his dad