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Survey highlights ‘price sensitivity’ variations among Australia’s crowded neighbours

Canberra’s model for Atec allocates too little time and money while leaving bureaucrats in control, critics say

Biggest pay packet in at least five years drives average leaders’ pay into seven figures, raising questions over Canberra boss’ surprise departure

Home affairs and skills portfolios in new hands, in first changes to Labor government’s ministry

As Australian scheme that encourages professionals to change career expands across border, former academic attests to its value in easing transition

First comprehensive research university to fully switch to block teaching believes it is destined to become ‘more mainstream’

State governments, policy experts and law council present united front against federal proposal

Go8 report outlines 10-year ‘roadmap’ to boost investment, arguing ‘substantial’ change needed

While Australia says it wants universities ‘going to the world’, its policies are making it harder

When too many students fail to graduate, small investments can make a world of difference, says commission

La Trobe moniker celebrates a genocidal past, staff and students say

Big business and states join universities in opposing proposed limits

Proposal an improvement on current ‘blunt tools’ that undermine policy and facilitate exploitation, says Australian Labor MP and former international education boss

Slow easing of Covid border restrictions helped international education avoid purges elsewhere, figures suggest

‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’

Political and fiscal realities are driving changes in the treatment of a ‘long overlooked’ community

Proposed commission would probe ‘massive surge’ in antisemitic incidents and ‘capitulation to extremists’

Union demands parliamentary inquiry as instances continue to emerge

As Australia mulls ‘hard’ caps on domestic as well as international students, expert warns of unintended consequences

Canberra quietly scrapped plans to join world’s biggest research collaboration scheme in mid-2023

Proposed body must have ‘mundane’ expertise and avoid being the ‘long grass of policy’, new group says

Accord panellists’ ‘preferred options’ also include ‘equity levy’ on high-fee courses and no change to international education

Crackdown proposed without any forethought about the broader consequences, Press Club hears

Government’s proposal will intensify the problem it is supposed to solve while ‘wreaking havoc’ on universities’ finances, universities say

Proposed visa caps, soaring rejection rates and ‘anti-China’ perceptions scaring off country’s most valuable student cohort

The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global

If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears

Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’

Universities might be in the ‘sweet spot to redefine the future’, but they still need to work with government and business, says leader

A fixation on publishing in ‘academic comic books’ is subverting the values permeating business schools, conference hears

Australians are less convinced about the upsides of the educational relationship but also less concerned about the downsides, survey suggests

It may be a ‘hard case to make’, but admitting more refugee students is in low-income countries’ interests, conference hears

As climate catastrophes gain steam, early warnings offer the ‘most effective’ safety shield, modellers say

Caps being pursued ‘at universities’ request’ and will mirror treatment of domestic students, education minister says

In rerun of US Congress hearing, Australian university executives reprimanded over both insensitivity to antisemitism and ‘complicity’ in Gaza slaughter

Course cuts will ‘revitalise’ language offerings, make students more employable and ‘address global challenges’, university claims

International student caps will endanger research funding just as a leisurely R&D review considers how to fix it, Senate committee hears

Compulsory national guidelines for Australian university executive salaries will not necessarily reduce them

Economic carnage looms as Australian political parties adopt unity ticket in treating overseas learners as cannon fodder

Expectations placed on scholars seen as unattainable ‘no matter how hard they work’

Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success

V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’

First budget of new governing coalition seen as ‘neutral’ for universities as small increases in funding set to be offset by inflation

Universities are not ‘speaker’s corner’ and governments should not impose ‘diktats about what we do on campus’, New Zealand forum hears

Academic exploration of leading university’s traditions uncovers dispossession, eugenics and grave robbing

Lower work rights cut-off would have excluded most doctoral graduates, critics warned

Few remaining obstacles for one of the biggest university amalgamations in history

‘No easy answers’ in what has become ‘a conflict about the conflict’

Universities face a delicate balancing act between ‘mob veto’ and safety obligations, says free speech advocate

‘Good data means better policy’, educationalists stress

While offering no assurances over her party’s stance on forthcoming legislation, shadow education minister is a ‘big fan’ of preparatory courses

Ahead of proposed enrolment caps, foreign earnings fail to prevent a slide further into the red

Figures indicate limited scope for growth in international enrolments, as administrators strive to balance the books

No projects are funded because nobody has the expertise to appraise them, letter claims

‘Shockingly bad legislation’ gives ministers power to favour certain disciplines

Vice-chancellors tread lightly as students occupy building and defy instructions to vacate camps

We should improve the system while we’re examining it, critics argue

Government embraces domestic growth, needs-based funding and a commission to drive it all, but firm commitments remain limited

Latest proposal, unveiled on eve of federal budget, highlights revenue constraints facing universities and colleges

Proposed legislation ‘unnecessary’ because existing arrangements already include caps, says strategist