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Apparent recovery owes much to bump in government funding, and may prove short-lived as international earnings tumble

Call for rethink over how funder’s money is used to underwrite professors’ salaries, as overhaul of key schemes continues

‘A poor communicator who ghosts me’: disaffected research students and supervisors have similar grievances about each other, survey reveals

Compulsory assessment tasks that highlight cultural histories of Australia and New Zealand help prepare students for future careers, universities insist

Budget projections that changes in repayment rules will incur no extra expense ‘lack credibility’, expert says

Promise emerged less than 18 hours after government handed down a slender pre-election budget

Cost-of-living help unveiled for students, staff and graduates, but sector remains all but empty-handed

Up to 185 more jobs in the frame, as restructuring of university switches from teaching to operations

Tally of unsubsidised students could reach thousands, representative body warns, after enrolments surpass projections

Institutions taking ‘as long as they like’ over investigations to protect reputations, according to Australian research integrity campaigner

Seven-figure salaries needed to attract top talent, universities argue, but staff apprehend ballooning executive remuneration with ‘disbelief and anger’

Fees rising and scholarships disappearing as visa constraints reduce incentive to keep students’ costs low

Threats to US-funded research and infrastructure could mean ‘profound implications for Australians’, academy warns

Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ‘safer’ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world

Reforms to boost opportunities for those just starting out could have the opposite effect, observers warn

Students spiked their visa paperwork to bolster their chances next time around, new data suggests

Teqsa’s request for extra clout to tackle ‘systemic’ governance failures deemed too much by some, too little and late by others

Australian east coast campuses emerge from lockdown after wayward storm pulled its punches

Communing with long-term residents is vital to overseas learners’ well-being but can leave them feeling more isolated than ever

Experts concede shortcomings in the oversight of universities but question whether Teqsa is best placed to resolve them

VET needs a boost, researcher argues, amid counter-claims that higher education is on the back foot

Australian department ‘not aware’ of computer ‘bug’ that applicants blame for torpedoing their PhD dreams

Institution is ‘balancing the right to protest with the rights of others to not be adversely affected’, says new vice-chancellor

While hundreds of academics decry education minister’s intervention, supporters say he acted in researchers’ interests

Statement endorsed by 39 Australian institutions described as both being ‘not robust enough’ and a ‘betrayal’ of staff and students

Advocate more judiciously, sector representatives urged, as they demand more money to ‘do our job for the country’

Coalition has departed from usual practice, outlining a comprehensive suite of changes if it regains government

If doors to opportunity close, ‘it can become a potent political issue very quickly’

Conference also hears that proposed streamline of ARC grant schemes will give early career researchers a ‘leg-up’

Universities can win a rational argument but lose an emotional war, conference hears

‘Real issue’ is whether people think universities give value, says new university leader who accepted lower salary

Students take years to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars they would have been paid if training was salaried, New Zealand study finds

City campuses have not delivered institutions an international education bonanza, but Federation hopes its new site will support a new model of cooperative education

Many asylum applicants began their journeys as students before Australia’s visas were overhauled almost a decade ago, new figures suggest

Domestic postgraduate provision looms as an alternative to out-of-favour international education, but it’s a tough market with questionable returns

Never much of a vote-winner, higher education now risks the burden of being branded a vote-loser for parties seen as too soft on the sector

University latest passion project for ex-politician who specialises in ‘institutions that are worth keeping’

‘Endless stress’ confronts Iranian doctoral candidates who worked for a year just to cover the application fee

Repeat of UK debate looms, as parliamentary committee urges Australian universities to ‘align’ with IHRA definition, and opposition members say it should be mandatory

Failure to improve translation of ‘laudable’ research output will see country ‘slide into mediocrity’, reviewers warn

Private member’s bill the latest slap in the face to a sector struggling for social licence as election looms

New national body takes shape, as troubled centenarian predecessor faces curtain

Two dozen academics join ‘mainstream’ call for a health check on youth gender treatment

Political pressures and legislative haziness leave institutions ‘on a hiding to nothing’

Expenses spike despite dwindling student numbers, with signs the gap could widen

Data centre mogul Robin Khuda seeks ‘cohort effect’ with largest-ever gift to Australia’s oldest university

Social sciences ‘the proverbial canary in the coalmine’ for restrictions in other areas of research, dean warns

Earnings gap between university bosses and ordinary workers has quintupled since Australia stopped regulating vice-chancellors’ salaries, analysis finds

Australian universities and colleges face a ‘difficult’ election but few further rule changes, analyst predicts

Government ‘cherry-picked’ ideas with commercial application, despite reviewer warnings against ‘naive’ expectations of windfall profits, scientists say

Measurements, data, facts and ocean health top to-do list of newly anointed science diplomat

New figures suggest political headache for government – and educators – will not disappear any time soon

Long-awaited governance council, delayed by 18 months, stands in for 50-year-old regulator

Seven institutes folded into four in major reshaping of research landscape

Right-wing trust deficit is pronounced in western Europe and North America but not Australasia, international survey finds

Universities must take a firmer hand with ‘zero-fail’ students, Australian study finds, amid policies to boost underprivileged participation

Housing impacts limited to precincts with high concentration of students, study finds

‘Crisis’ snowballed following A$1 million payout to short-serving law dean who was sympathetic to abortion

‘Tweaks needed’ as eligibility remains restricted to citizens of the richest nations

‘Gagging clauses’ in politicians’ sights amid findings that ‘corporate’ governance has trumped the university mission