Australia should not relax its China travel ban The financial urge to allow Chinese students to begin the new university year must not trump public health concerns, says Salvatore Babones By Salvatore Babones 25 February
Cheats ‘exploiting false sense of security’ in exams Australian study warns against jettisoning essays in favour of invigilated assessments By John Ross 24 February
Coronavirus uncertainty persists in Australia and New Zealand Exemptions and detours under consideration, as universities and students grapple with open-ended travel bans By John Ross 21 February
Lottery for research grants backed by New Zealand academics Researchers support funder’s random allocation of research grants by a two-to-one margin, study says By Jack Grove 19 February
Coronavirus: don’t bail out ‘reckless’ campuses, Australia told Universities did not prepare adequately for a ‘foreseeable’ downturn predicted to slash at least A$2.8 billion (?1.45 billion) from education exports, claims sociologist By John Ross 18 February
Australian research yet to fall short of ‘national interest’ test Opponents see campaign to ‘diminish the regard for academic inquiry’ as political manoeuvring rather than real problem By John Ross 17 February
Coronavirus travel bans ‘unnecessary sleight of hand’, says v-c Coronavirus response driven by ‘political objectives masquerading as public health decisions’, according to outspoken academic By John Ross 14 February
Mistrust of Chinese ‘risks Australia’s diaspora advantage’ Alienation of Chinese students and graduates risks encouraging a monoculture of the ‘male, pale and stale’, senate told By John Ross 14 February
Coronavirus: Australian university moves to ‘control’ spending Other universities likely to rein in their costs as travel ban threatens their bottom line By John Ross 13 February
Students remain in limbo as Australian travel ban extended Universities scramble to offer ‘targeted solutions’ for Chinese students stranded by coronavirus By John Ross 13 February
Race on to create online courses for virus-stranded students Institutional, pedagogical and workload issues more problematic than technological impediments, experts say By John Ross 13 February
Covid-19 coronavirus crisis: university offers itself as online fallback ‘We’re all in this together’, v-c insists, as universities scramble to teach 100,000 stranded students By John Ross 12 February
