World news

Long timeline for review heralded almost a year ago by another review

Loan scheme pioneer highlights moral hazard of Australia’s ‘Byzantine’ way of bankrolling master’s places

‘Big reset’ opportunity now spent when sector most needs it, says Duncan Maskell

If we rely on industry to bankroll research, we lose sight of problems that do not interest industry, technologist warns

Driven more by pragmatism than purism, Asia’s new wave of industry-linked universities is shaking up the sector

Region’s educational strengths must be brought to bear against key challenges such as climate change, forum hears

Emerging institutions’ aspirations snubbed as old-guard administrators focus on a vanishing bottom line

Senate victory a win for government following defeat of caps

Keeping costs down ‘not an objective’ for research-addicted sector, says accountancy professor  

Questions cause alarm but the panel ‘wouldn’t be doing its job’ if it avoided them, commentators say

Non-metropolitan institutions should be treated differently from their city cousins if overseas admissions are limited, says northern Australian MP

Prolonged integrity problems, ongoing visa chaos, harsher caps to come: the post-caps prospects for Australian international education

Country could accommodate more overseas learners, according to poll of locals’ attitudes

Crossbench party wants debt reduction legislated straight away, while opposition dismisses measure as an elitist ‘election bribe’

Visa processing chaos set to continue amid opposition parties’ rejection of proposal to limit international student numbers

Institutions start putting recruitment on hold amid uncertainty about whether new limits will come into force in January

Promote teamwork to improve gender equity, Australian analysis suggests

Staff fear cost-cutting motivations behind university’s drive for more secure employment

Private colleges set to be hit with punitive limits on overseas recruitment, despite being among the top performers in government-commissioned surveys

Ensure that your exit causes minimal inconvenience, regulator tells private colleges

Burgeoning compliance requirements ‘squeezing out’ other governance priorities, Australian conference hears

Universities’ instinct to ‘de-risk everything’ makes things worse for everybody, says academic émigré

‘Conflating knowledge systems with underlying disciplinary teaching’ is part of a ‘slippery slope’ for the academy

New STEM proposal meets state’s needs and government’s demands, vice-chancellor says, but opponents say all relocation plans should be scrapped

Academic freedom statute ‘widely misunderstood’, says New Zealand barrister

But simplicity is hard to produce in a complex world, Australian forum hears

Latest redundancy round militates against the government’s growth aspirations, observers warn

University staff like their workplaces more than people in other sectors but spend less time being there, surveys find

Horse set to follow the cart, as critics warn of perverse consequences

‘Alarming precedent’, says union; ‘interim solution’ pending ‘appropriate governance’, says university

Changes will ensure compliance with new legislation, according to administrators, but unions say it is about cutting costs

Some A$15 billion of student debt relief will do almost ‘nothing’ to help cash-strapped Australian institutions

Australian academics required to ‘act up’ for years before being paid for it, analysis finds

Universities’ challenge now is keeping pace with applications, analyst says

Programmes were ‘foundational’ to Northern Rivers-based Southern Cross but are no longer viable, vice-chancellor says

As pre-Wikipedia resource enters its 25th year, pioneers eye new applications as well as new languages

University leaders under ‘extraordinary pressure’ amid funding crisis, says departing University of Southern Queensland chief

“Workforce change” processes under way at seven institutions likely to claim well over 1,200 jobs, with more campuses expected to follow suit

Some resisters mistrust tertiary education but others just do not see the need

Demand for Australian education may have sunk so far that visa processing rearrangements will make little difference

‘Layers and layers of interventions’ will not be a temporary phenomenon, analyst warns

International education is ‘not a one-way street’, Canberra insists, as it limits inbound travel

International student crackdown partly a response to world of ‘fragmentation, competition and protectionism’

Scion of academic and ministerial family could champion ‘a push towards academic excellence’, but policy intent is ‘hard to read’

‘Revenue hit’ will undermine universities’ ability to recruit foreign faculty while driving more locals overseas

Global sustainability event in Istanbul on 16-19 June 2025 to convene 5,000-plus attendees

Troubled institution joins neighbouring ANU in flagging major cuts, saying it is ‘spending beyond its means’

Proposal to let universities control regional study hubs ‘raises more questions than answers’

New restructure proposals, ‘the last of the year’, would claim more than 100 positions

Higher education climate action event in Azerbaijan convenes global sustainability leaders

Record increases scheduled as caps proposal leaves universities ‘singing different songs’

Institutions in six continents plan fightback against creeping denigration of the social sciences

Waiving pay during Covid did not prevent redundancies, union warns members

Personal touch the magic ingredient in a programme credited with keeping research hotshots on home base

Pandemic-style redundancies feared as universities count their losses

Parliamentarians dismiss warnings about workload and academic freedom infringements 

Flagship higher education event on 7-9 October 2025 to focus on ‘Universities as agents of change’

Unfazed by unemployment, and resigned about home ownership, learners are taking their feet off the pedal

With major parties backing the legislation, controversial enrolment quotas appear a done deal

Open access champions make ‘the perfect the enemy of the good’ by opposing chief scientist’s plan