Australia and New Zealand

Many students in Australia struggle to afford enough food, and expensive campus outlets are not helping, say Jane Dyson and four colleagues

Reprieve for decades-old institution reflects outpouring of community concern and improvement in university’s financial position

Jobs and achievement the new mantra in a ‘refocus on what matters most’ in the tertiary system

Australia’s new higher education steward may lack the power to overhaul widely opposed system of university fees and subsidies

Political battles over a planned New Zealand medical school illustrate how the subject of where doctors are trained excites public passions like no other in higher education, explains John Ross

ANZ universities notch ‘major’ new agreements with big publishers, but negotiations with the biggest break down over price concerns

Last-minute amendments from opposition ease concerns about course cancellation and barriers to entry

Rules need tweaking to rein in high salaries that have become ‘emblematic’ of Australian universities’ social licence problems, George Williams argues

Esteemed practitioner and defender of the humanities Graeme Turner dies months after seminal treatise on the state of the academy

Australians can ‘hold two ideas at once’, appreciating the benefits of ‘controlled and selective’ collaboration with the East Asian juggernaut, survey suggests

New legislation creating Australian commission represents ‘the obliteration of the idea that universities have purposes independent of government’, critics say

Grade inflation follows the US playbook, threatening public confidence in Kiwi universities