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Professors accused of misconduct brought down by online complaints

Group’s regional credentials boosted in latest instance of institutional jockeying in and out of representative networks

Struggling financially, the private Jacobs University is seeking new backers, but academics have been left shocked by plans for it to be turned into an AI institute by software giants

Dean at University of Colorado Boulder plans to replace tenured and tenure-track faculty with instructors, but critics say the move tells students that ‘their education doesn’t really matter’

Institution aims to end national reluctance to ask about racial and ethnic identity, with other universities across the country showing interest in following suit

Rurally based university had faced financial and regulatory challenges coinciding with Andrew Vann’s sabbatical

Focus on revenue and ignorance of reporting obligations ‘provide opportunities for corruption’, watchdog finds

Meeting of government-industry council charts new ‘path’ emphasising transnational and distance learning

Governments must step in because remuneration committees cannot resist upward pressure on executive salaries, researchers argue

Australian proposal the latest in a raft of security-related interventions

Students are lobbying for extensions to the pass-fail grading system that was widely adopted earlier this year, but most universities are proving less lenient than they were in spring

Survey finds Australia and other destinations are losing ground to the UK, with health management becoming ‘less of a differentiator’

Proposal is first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region for the world’s largest academic publisher

The government points to a decade of funding guarantees, but critics have taken aim at draconian punishments for campus protests and the rushed scrapping of a PhD vetting body

Change may come from unexpected quarters, analysts warn, as crisis and Canberra upset the apple cart

Experts say the crisis should have been used as a good opportunity to rethink a notoriously stressful assessment system

While reservations remain, the pandemic has smoothed acceptance of virtual delivery

Analysts say industrial solutions must be adopted to wean universities off their dependence on casual staff

Australian officials mute as exasperated foreigners watch study and career opportunities evaporate

Picking winners at random helps back risky research, boosts niche subjects and curbs nepotism, recipients say

French scholars, accused of fostering terrorism, fear escalating rhetoric could curtail freedom of research

As Australia’s Kylie Moore-Gilbert prepares to come home, UN human rights observers express grave fears for Iranian-Swedish academic

Some students have been stuck on campus for months despite no local cases being reported

Unpublished Australian data show that number of regular support staff positions has shrunk while executive roles have expanded massively

Snowballing international earnings buttressed universities’ wealth ahead of this year’s crisis while relegating federal government to minority funder status

Victorian budget also confirms hardship packages for universities and foreign students and recovery strategy for international education

Pandemic hardship has helped make domestic students aware of their overseas peers, study finds

Scientists ask why major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology

Premier offers latest on-again, off-again signal about resumption of student flows

Stalled research driving students into poverty and bleak career prospects, paper warns

Words and their interpretations assume significance when lives are at stake, Australian research shows

Despite a pandemic-induced pause in March, research funders have concluded that submissions are ‘broadly on track’ and will not push deadline back again

Expert views conflict on humanities graduates’ employment prospects, and whether Australian funding changes will make arts the preserve of the elite

Young researchers have been locked out of labs and clinics for 10 months because of Covid

Australian report also advocates expansion of online counselling

Rare opportunities arise in a country with a small population and a big regard for science