Australia and New Zealand

Limiting overseas enrolments will reduce diversity and hit capacity to fund programmes that enhance Indigenous higher education, says Barry Judd

Senate committee inquiry extended as members scrutinise impacts on vocational colleges

Both sides of Australian politics need to stop treating universities as ‘a political pawn’

Graduates now keenly aware of loan scheme rules and how to avoid debt blowouts, figures suggest

Author says country should acknowledge forces to suppress academic expression, irrespective of their ideological roots 

Process for limiting international student recruitment ‘like a game of musical chairs’, Senate committee hears

Mandating longer study abroad stints will sideline the students who benefit most and cannot manage independent travel, practitioners warn

Serving minister and former prime ministerial aspirant to lead capital city university

Regional institutions hope to benefit as they are handed quotas higher than current numbers at expense of rich Group of Eight universities. But will effect of the policy merely put students off Australia altogether?

Pay negotiations ‘proceeding well’, administrators insist, amid argy-bargy on both sides of the Tasman

Latest figures showing that growth has fallen to lowest level in decades should be a ‘wake-up call’ for government, says Universities Australia

‘Unwelcoming’ government policies may see international students turn to other destinations, say education agents