Australia and New Zealand

AI glasses and other smart apparel may be impossible to keep out of exams, adding to universities’ woes about the future of assessments

University of Auckland’s Dawn Freshwater argues higher education leaders should do more soul-searching and less rewriting of strategies in a difficult but privileged job

Compromise move allows university to press ahead with search for Bishop’s replacement by giving Teqsa unprecedented role

Legal scholar, alumna and current Griffith leader returns as university’s second female chief

Despite a rebound during the pandemic, Australians increasingly shunning structured learning as AI raises questions about ‘credibility of degrees’

Launching pad for mainstream media careers appears headed off the spools amid desperate search for new funder

Proposal for riverside Hobart campus to proceed in pared-back form after sell-off of existing base agreed

ANU’s ‘academic performance remains strong’, university insists, amid call for governing body spill over overstated financial crisis

Former head of music school says decision not to revisit his complaints shows system ‘worse than useless’

While decline in insecure employment precedes anti-casualisation law, swelling workforces at most institutions contradict claims of ‘tight cost control’

Contract approved weeks after new leader promised to use in-house expertise and keep consultancy spending to a minimum

Cost-benefit analysis ‘broadly supportive’ of amalgamation of up to three Perth universities