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Education minister cites buoyant student experience ratings as evidence of the country’s ‘fundamentals’

Course cut critics castigate Australian institution for using data selectively, as sociologists elsewhere watch on nervously

Investment in education services provider IDP set to pay multimillion-dollar dividends as students use its language tests to head to Canada and UK

Comparison websites on the way as admissions centres reinvent their services amid emerging needs and demographic change

While humanity’s coexistence with nature is not always harmonious, Cosmos Prize winner says it can be hard to pick the aggressor

Departing Australian human rights commissioner expects v-cs to be among the students of his new AI ethics initiative

Discussion document seeks feedback on vision of international education Utopia

Traditional worries like cost and job prospects trump would-be international students’ safety and travel concerns, survey finds

Campaigners at Boğaziçi University say their victory could inspire others – but also fear a harsher crackdown under a new appointee

Formalised defence R&D ties could recoup one-quarter of the research funds lost from Australia’s ailing international education industry

Veterinary schools lead campaign protesting regulatory obstacles applied to an array of food-related genomic research

New study raises questions over validity of single studies and suggests detailed tracking of researchers’ decisions during analysis

Sydney academic orchestrated campaign after striking resistance to course closure

Controversy over honorary degree granted by Edith Cowan University highlights the risks of awarding so many

Economist’s ordeal highlights the risks of lone advisory roles in unstable countries

Notwithstanding their generosity in 2020, most university leaders will be back to seven-figure earnings as the crisis really bites

Research teams worked separately to investigate similar problems when combined studies might have delivered meaningful results

Hundreds of roles at risk as fresh wave of coronavirus restrictions sweeps across country

Paid time off for gender affirmation among the latest categories of special purpose leave demanded of universities

Years of restrictions have stymied scholars’ work on topics such as the Algerian war of independence, and a new law could cement this lack of access

Four different datasets, four different stories: Australian university staffing statistics ‘impossible to reconcile’

Frustrated by rises in publishers’ article processing charges, the country wants to expand non-commercial journals instead

Pandemic could reverse gender-equity advances in Asia-Pacific region, researchers warn

Viruses are much more predictable than governments, summit hears

Australian regulator allows Perth institution to address its problems behind closed doors

Scholars say that the new institute, whose remit describes the genocide as ‘baseless’, will lack credibility

Australian university limits journals accepted for doctorates amid mounting concern among academics

Women leave STEM at transition stage from university to work, Australian study finds

Authorities probe competition implications, as plagiarism giant insists it needs scale to meet customer demands

City state’s first university of the arts to be the more than the sum of its parts

Academics bemoan softly-softly reforms to ‘fundamentally broken system’

In unprecedented comments ahead of federal elections in September, Anja Karliczek applauds university that shuttered its institute

Research uncovers tipping point in distant relations between overseas and local learners

Normally static sector’s landscape sees uncharacteristically rapid change as new standards take effect

Eminent judge’s departure follows Australian university’s decision to fund new campus development while discarding staff

Incoming Australian vice-chancellor no stranger to foreign revenue challenges because he deals with same issues in current job

Performance can help explore academic questions, say advocates, but the field still lacks full acceptance in the corridors of power and policymaking

Australian report warns that students and academics alike are learning to stay silent

Alumnus and established academic to take the helm at highly ranked university

Wave of money is ‘truly unprecedented’, says Italian rectors’ head, but some worry the money is too focused on technology transfer and that national plans overlap

Restrictions reimposed as isolated infections trigger domino effect

Australian state’s audit reveals that the early financial benefits of Covid can outweigh the losses

Federal prosecutor alleges that ‘Ilnur N’ passed on university information to Russian intelligence services in return for cash

Australian consultants’ report reveals shortcomings in treatment of people who experience or witness sexual harassment or assault

Covid redundancy terms include non-disclosure and non-disparagement obligations, as corporate HR culture captures universities

Governments have focused on building up a lavishly funded research elite, but the forced switch online has made them realise losers in this system cannot cope

After criticism that it failed to declare Peter Daszak’s work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, journal has also ‘recused’ zoologist from its coronavirus origins taskforce

Covid has created a platform for institutional newcomers to ‘leapfrog’ established frontrunners

Koç University dismissed media scholar Amir Hetsroni for ‘inappropriate behaviour’, but he suspects a link to his private criticism of Turkey’s government

Expert applauds new measures to boost ERA’s rigour and transparency, but questions ‘softly, softly’ approach

Politician turned coal boss pulls out of appointment as Australian university’s chancellor

NSW universities spent more money sacking people than they lost in international student revenue

Charles Sturt a ‘stronger institution’ after addressing regulatory and governance issues

Scholars, fed up with decades of living from contract to contract, force government to remove video that seemed to celebrate insecurity

Australian review finds that the switch from clinical practice into the ‘sausage factory’ of academia can elevate stress levels – even among the most stressed

Modest programme spells hope for tens of thousands stranded offshore

Former UK foreign policy adviser fears countries could lose ‘monopoly’ over accreditation for failing to inject critical thinking, curiosity, emotional intelligence and empathy into higher education

Rating scale for Excellence in Research for Australia to be recalibrated, with Indigenous studies incorporated as a field in its own right

Decades of leniency encouraged scores of final-year students to fake their overseas placements and go ‘sightseeing’

Chinese students bring benefits but universities are too reliant on them and Canberra should ‘take a harder line’, respondents say