Australia and New Zealand

Government demands changes after internet sleuths identify errors, as analyses of past mergers cast doubt on benefits

Academics turn to private sector as research into machine learning fuels massive growth in computational needs

R&D funding boosts and student loan repayment cuts floated as major and minor parties joust over tertiary education policy

Documents ‘altered, reused or repurposed’ to make them appear legitimate, immigration officials say

Scholars of Chinese heritage in Australia agree with the rationale for research security measures but not how they are implemented, survey finds

Critics slam consultant’s ‘flawed’ assumptions, ‘nice round numbers’ and reference errors ‘bearing the hallmarks of AI’

Students and staff to have more seats at the table, state government promises, ahead of fiercely contested election

A hundred jobs in the frame after Charles Sturt’s international earnings crash by three-quarters

‘Opening the Doors of Opportunity’ bill passes with dozens of amendments and last-minute constitutional hitch

While consultant’s report suggests benefits will massively outweigh costs, staff have joined administrators in vowing to ‘vehemently fight’ the proposal

Merger of three public universities ‘would create cost, waste and loss of choice’ while ushering ‘complexity rather than competitiveness’

‘Painful’ times ahead as both sides of Australian politics look to slash international enrolments in ‘competition over a single number’