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Newly announced quota ‘like a levy by stealth’, analyst says, as universities evaluate the impact at institutional level

If the choice is between impact factor and maintaining the content’s integrity, there is little contest

No currently enrolled students will be disadvantaged, bureaucrat insists, despite quarrels over data and assessment that bill ‘is more suited to national security legislation’

With a six-month sunset and short-term contracts off the table, administrators can no longer rely on insecure teachers for certainty

Firm whose lawyer helped initiate ACU saga handed job of finding leakers

Security expert questions the approach, amid reports of Australia’s first ‘nationality ban’

Canberra yet to clarify future of ‘ministerial direction 107’ despite touting enrolment caps as a replacement

Opacity is a feature of a university sector that has ‘lost its way’, according to Australia’s newest sector leader

After waiting years for their visas, Australia-bound PhD candidates find that their university places have evaporated

‘We all fare better if we work together,’ says Washington lobbyist, as US turns a corner in its approach to foreign students

Vice-chancellor says it is ‘fine’ for international students to make up nearly half of Melbourne’s enrolments

University lobby demands revocation of ‘ministerial direction 107’, after education minister insists student quotas will be a ‘better mechanism’

Short-stay students should be exempted from both quotas and fee hike, says representative body

City dwellers appreciate international students’ economic contribution but think they add to housing unaffordability

Liberals ‘reserve position’ on international student bill, as Australian government pledges to release ‘indicative’ caps

As they brace for big policy shifts, inflation and flat domestic demand have left Australian universities more vulnerable than before Covid

Fee hike follows similar move in Australia, but from a much lower base

Australian stakeholders applaud indigenous focus but stress need for planning and resourcing

Higher education staff missing opportunity to use generative AI tools to relieve them from routine tasks, Australian survey finds

At least half of the incidents had ‘no connection’ with the university, according to report

Not international, not domestic, no networks, transient mindset: new support group raises the bar for students from forced migration backgrounds

Proposal denigrated as ‘wealth tax’ better than the alternative, architect says, as Australian universities unite to oppose caps

Environment, safety and friendliness prove pluses, but cost and work experience ‘remain biggest challenges’

Canberra should avoid unnecessary damage by waiting to assess the impact of no fewer than nine other policy changes, professor says

Fees for humanities degrees reach dizzying milestone, raising questions over how many will ever be repaid

Structurally disadvantaged in teaching Australian students, new private colleges face international enrolment veto until they have taught domestic students

Survey highlights ‘price sensitivity’ variations among Australia’s crowded neighbours

Canberra’s model for Atec allocates too little time and money while leaving bureaucrats in control, critics say

Biggest pay packet in at least five years drives average leaders’ pay into seven figures, raising questions over Canberra boss’ surprise departure

Home affairs and skills portfolios in new hands, in first changes to Labor government’s ministry

As Australian scheme that encourages professionals to change career expands across border, former academic attests to its value in easing transition

First comprehensive research university to fully switch to block teaching believes it is destined to become ‘more mainstream’

State governments, policy experts and law council present united front against federal proposal

Go8 report outlines 10-year ‘roadmap’ to boost investment, arguing ‘substantial’ change needed

While Australia says it wants universities ‘going to the world’, its policies are making it harder

When too many students fail to graduate, small investments can make a world of difference, says commission

La Trobe moniker celebrates a genocidal past, staff and students say

Big business and states join universities in opposing proposed limits

Proposal an improvement on current ‘blunt tools’ that undermine policy and facilitate exploitation, says Australian Labor MP and former international education boss

Slow easing of Covid border restrictions helped international education avoid purges elsewhere, figures suggest

‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’

Political and fiscal realities are driving changes in the treatment of a ‘long overlooked’ community

Proposed commission would probe ‘massive surge’ in antisemitic incidents and ‘capitulation to extremists’

Union demands parliamentary inquiry as instances continue to emerge

As Australia mulls ‘hard’ caps on domestic as well as international students, expert warns of unintended consequences

Canberra quietly scrapped plans to join world’s biggest research collaboration scheme in mid-2023

Proposed body must have ‘mundane’ expertise and avoid being the ‘long grass of policy’, new group says

Accord panellists’ ‘preferred options’ also include ‘equity levy’ on high-fee courses and no change to international education

Crackdown proposed without any forethought about the broader consequences, Press Club hears

Government’s proposal will intensify the problem it is supposed to solve while ‘wreaking havoc’ on universities’ finances, universities say

Proposed visa caps, soaring rejection rates and ‘anti-China’ perceptions scaring off country’s most valuable student cohort

The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global

If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears

Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’

Universities might be in the ‘sweet spot to redefine the future’, but they still need to work with government and business, says leader

A fixation on publishing in ‘academic comic books’ is subverting the values permeating business schools, conference hears

Australians are less convinced about the upsides of the educational relationship but also less concerned about the downsides, survey suggests

It may be a ‘hard case to make’, but admitting more refugee students is in low-income countries’ interests, conference hears

As climate catastrophes gain steam, early warnings offer the ‘most effective’ safety shield, modellers say

Caps being pursued ‘at universities’ request’ and will mirror treatment of domestic students, education minister says