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Unlike the institutions they work for, Australian researchers have less paperwork – but investment remains in the doldrums

Cash-strapped institutions face task of rebuilding per-student returns as well as student numbers, with earnings slashed by scholarships, offshoring and other factors

Evolving norms, expectations and laws usher both risk and opportunity for universities, according to blind law scholar

Dismissal over workload dispute ‘merely the latest ploy’ in Australian university’s long-running campaign to oust ‘conservative academic’

It might sound ‘wishy-washy’ but joyfulness can succeed where KPIs fail in supporting the institutional mission, new book argues

Kiwis dodge debt overseas, as student loan costs spiral for individuals and government alike

‘I would not accept his evidence as sufficient to establish any scientific proposition at all,’ says ruling

Good for the goose but not the gander, after college’s university-standard performance failed to earn it sub-university branding

British-born leader leaves with immediate effect after less than four years at the helm

As Canberra considers reforms to make university enrolments more inclusive and abundant, key indicators are moving in opposite direction

Resurgence of virus among vulnerable overseas students prompts calls for better awareness campaigns and pharmaceutical subsidies

Partial elimination of tuition fees could prove self-defeating by undermining the private universities that educate more than half of the country’s students

Paperwork pain eases, revenue pain rises as universities confront new year

Autonomy, tertiary sector integration and sustainable research funding are crucial to sector’s future, Brian Schmidt says, as he relinquishes leadership role

Cutting entitlements will be counter-productive unless countries address cultural barriers keeping international graduates from meaningful work

Removal of personal and affiliation details means assessors judge the idea rather than the researcher’s track record

Canberra’s attempt to reduce backlog of ‘permanently temporary’ graduates hamstrung by trade agreement

Former political staffer and representative group head to take the helm at umbrella body

‘Fantasy rhetoric’ that university leads to the ‘good life’ leaves students feeling ‘betrayed’, Australian study finds

Amid yawning teacher shortages and one-sided funding regime, colleges warn that their successful model of localised training faces collapse

Australia’s now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t approach reflects policy patterns in other leading education destinations

People ‘backing off’ from higher education should ‘have another look’, says departing Universities Australia boss

More miscarriages inevitable unless courts become ‘more science-sensitive’, learned academy warns

Education exports and high student loan repayments help offset damage from inflation and interest rates, according to Australian mini-budget

Cost-of-living crisis has not spawned improvements in university food options, Australian analysis finds

Chancellors might only choose vice-chancellors once a decade, but they spend the next few decades agonising about it

Representative groups broadly welcome focus on quality and integrity, but proposed changes to migration points test will be pivotal

‘If the government wants data, here’s the data,’ says dean, as study finds Māori and Pasifika remain under-represented in medical enrolments

Despite record earnings, commencements and visa lodgements, analyst predicts ‘readjustment’

While concessions and newly flagged exemptions provide reassurance over Australia’s proposed defence trade control changes, ‘grey areas’ remain

Academy and fifth estate must team up, Nobel laureate says, as 3.2 billion people prepare to vote in a reality-free zone

All but a handful of universities now tarnished by short-changing scandal, according to academic union

Criticism of Australia’s ‘tax’ on international students escalates amid signs that it may be a done deal

Australia has made strides in developing a commercialisation culture but still has a long way to go, says new STA president

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

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

Wealth inequities ‘a learning tool’ in education geared to ‘whole-person formation’, forum hears

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

Quality and resourcing also front of mind for academic heading first comprehensive education evaluation in decades

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

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

Overseas universities could profit from ‘escape route’ role, as China’s women resist political pressure to produce the next generation

As country proposes tough new sanctions for sharing regulated technologies, except with the UK and US, sceptic asks whether nuclear submarine pact is worth the trouble

Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims

Locals with overseas qualifications are no longer welcome in China’s state-owned enterprises, conference hears

Australian study highlights gap between ‘statistically significant’ and ‘meaningful’

Brain researcher’s clash with University of Sydney administration follows exit from Imperial in earlier whistleblower row

Late researcher’s reform narrative chimes with Australian accord considerations

Australian researchers propose alternative way of redistributing university resources, but warn it won’t be easy

‘Free-for-all’ approach blunts universities’ impact in tackling complex societal challenges, says Australian consultant

SCU decision the latest sign of doom for workplace agreements that lack union support

The paperwork burden is declining, but so are the prospects of obtaining funds, new data shows

Research ‘challenges the view that barriers to university education are driven by socio-economic disadvantage’

New millennium has wrought ‘transformational’ change on Australian higher education, and much of it has been ‘negative’, seminar hears

All agree cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard, but researchers favour material incentives while executives want cultural change, study finds

Union and employer association welcome delay to resolve ‘unintended consequences’