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Prolonged integrity problems, ongoing visa chaos, harsher caps to come: the post-caps prospects for Australian international education

Country could accommodate more overseas learners, according to poll of locals’ attitudes

Crossbench party wants debt reduction legislated straight away, while opposition dismisses measure as an elitist ‘election bribe’

Visa processing chaos set to continue amid opposition parties’ rejection of proposal to limit international student numbers

Institutions start putting recruitment on hold amid uncertainty about whether new limits will come into force in January

Promote teamwork to improve gender equity, Australian analysis suggests

Staff fear cost-cutting motivations behind university’s drive for more secure employment

Private colleges set to be hit with punitive limits on overseas recruitment, despite being among the top performers in government-commissioned surveys

Ensure that your exit causes minimal inconvenience, regulator tells private colleges

Burgeoning compliance requirements ‘squeezing out’ other governance priorities, Australian conference hears

Universities’ instinct to ‘de-risk everything’ makes things worse for everybody, says academic émigré

‘Conflating knowledge systems with underlying disciplinary teaching’ is part of a ‘slippery slope’ for the academy

New STEM proposal meets state’s needs and government’s demands, vice-chancellor says, but opponents say all relocation plans should be scrapped

Academic freedom statute ‘widely misunderstood’, says New Zealand barrister

But simplicity is hard to produce in a complex world, Australian forum hears

Latest redundancy round militates against the government’s growth aspirations, observers warn

University staff like their workplaces more than people in other sectors but spend less time being there, surveys find

Horse set to follow the cart, as critics warn of perverse consequences

‘Alarming precedent’, says union; ‘interim solution’ pending ‘appropriate governance’, says university

Changes will ensure compliance with new legislation, according to administrators, but unions say it is about cutting costs

Some A$15 billion of student debt relief will do almost ‘nothing’ to help cash-strapped Australian institutions

Australian academics required to ‘act up’ for years before being paid for it, analysis finds

Universities’ challenge now is keeping pace with applications, analyst says

Programmes were ‘foundational’ to Northern Rivers-based Southern Cross but are no longer viable, vice-chancellor says

As pre-Wikipedia resource enters its 25th year, pioneers eye new applications as well as new languages

University leaders under ‘extraordinary pressure’ amid funding crisis, says departing University of Southern Queensland chief

“Workforce change” processes under way at seven institutions likely to claim well over 1,200 jobs, with more campuses expected to follow suit

Some resisters mistrust tertiary education but others just do not see the need

Demand for Australian education may have sunk so far that visa processing rearrangements will make little difference

‘Layers and layers of interventions’ will not be a temporary phenomenon, analyst warns

International education is ‘not a one-way street’, Canberra insists, as it limits inbound travel

International student crackdown partly a response to world of ‘fragmentation, competition and protectionism’

Scion of academic and ministerial family could champion ‘a push towards academic excellence’, but policy intent is ‘hard to read’

‘Revenue hit’ will undermine universities’ ability to recruit foreign faculty while driving more locals overseas

Global sustainability event in Istanbul on 16-19 June 2025 to convene 5,000-plus attendees

Troubled institution joins neighbouring ANU in flagging major cuts, saying it is ‘spending beyond its means’

Proposal to let universities control regional study hubs ‘raises more questions than answers’

New restructure proposals, ‘the last of the year’, would claim more than 100 positions

Higher education climate action event in Azerbaijan convenes global sustainability leaders

Record increases scheduled as caps proposal leaves universities ‘singing different songs’

Institutions in six continents plan fightback against creeping denigration of the social sciences

Waiving pay during Covid did not prevent redundancies, union warns members

Personal touch the magic ingredient in a programme credited with keeping research hotshots on home base

Pandemic-style redundancies feared as universities count their losses

Parliamentarians dismiss warnings about workload and academic freedom infringements 

Flagship higher education event on 7-9 October 2025 to focus on ‘Universities as agents of change’

Unfazed by unemployment, and resigned about home ownership, learners are taking their feet off the pedal

With major parties backing the legislation, controversial enrolment quotas appear a done deal

Open access champions make ‘the perfect the enemy of the good’ by opposing chief scientist’s plan

Half of sector goes backwards in this year’s table, as international student caps threaten more damage

US-based education support site taken to court by regulator, in first test of nascent legislation

Releasing details of Paddy Nixon’s final-year earnings of $A1.8 million would be ‘contrary to the public interest’, Canberra insists

Inquiry recommends unamended passage of Universities Accord reforms bill

Last-minute decision leaves some institutions safe and others stranded

At least 50 job cuts proposed as university confronts A$200 million hole caused by ‘external headwinds’ and federal policy changes

Reputable colleges stripped of students while thousands of places go to institutions focusing elsewhere or facing closure 

Leadership recruits from outside academia bring new perspectives, and a few skeletons in the closet, to university administration

Universities’ ‘inadequate’ responses ‘just like their handling of sexual assault’, says Australian parliamentary committee

Science and gender equity advocate to become first female leader of Australia’s top research institution

Rather than railing at those who control the purse strings, help them solve their problems, says regulator