Australia tells universities to focus on commercialising research Government encourages shift away from reliance on international student revenue, but expert questions whether this is possible By John Ross 26 February
Australian universities ‘turn around’ Covid year finances Top-ranked Melbourne the latest to declare a surplus in the face of pandemic By John Ross 25 February
‘Glass cliff’ pioneer aims to keep female scholars from precipice While notching up a leadership position can make a woman a role model, her treatment can be equally influential, professor says By John Ross 24 February
Australian universities ‘singled out’ over ‘Frankenstein’ courses Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations By John Ross 23 February
Students embraced in Australian dole boost Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments By John Ross 23 February
Teqsa to consult on timing of research quality baselines Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them By John Ross 22 February
Worse redundancy terms ‘key trade-off for more permanent jobs’ Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts By John Ross 21 February
Australian international education ‘in doldrums until 2023’ Industry operatives’ worst fears could cost universities thousands of staff and country tens of billions of dollars By John Ross 18 February
Australia’s higher education sector must be segmented Different university groupings should have strong, distinctive capabilities that address specific markets, says John H. Howard By John H. Howard 18 February
Cross-subsidisation ‘provoked Australian funding overhaul’ Author of a comprehensive appraisal of university finances says officials want universities to keep money flows on the straight and narrow By John Ross 17 February
Australian government position on language closures sparks confusion Education department asserts right to approve language course closures while insisting that it ‘does not intervene’ By John Ross 17 February
Bureaucratic oversight helped seal language courses’ fate Australian department ‘erroneously’ removed protection for former education minister’s pet courses By John Ross 15 February
