Australia and New Zealand

Institution that dispensed the highest vice-chancellor remuneration in sector’s history looking at course and job cuts

Universities may be discouraged from taking on displaced students for fear of them counting towards their quota, policy expert warns

Top-tier institutions accused of not engaging with concerns about scale of overseas cohorts

But flaws in controversial bill are already creating problems, according to top legal scholar and university leader

Metric used to inform new policy adds to confusion for top-ranked institutions while other vice-chancellors welcome ‘certainty’ provided by their allocations

Australian scholars say improving response times make website ‘an appealing tool’ for cheating, but findings are disputed

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’