Australia and New Zealand

Australia’s biggest university appoints from within after ‘rigorous and broad-scale’ executive search

Academy and fifth estate must team up, Nobel laureate says, as 3.2 billion people prepare to vote in a reality-free zone

All but a handful of universities now tarnished by short-changing scandal, according to academic union

Criticism of Australia’s ‘tax’ on international students escalates amid signs that it may be a done deal

Australia has made strides in developing a commercialisation culture but still has a long way to go, says new STA president

Delight and alarm in equal measures, as political manoeuvres and drafting technicalities limit both casual employment and its antidote

As Australia’s climate turns back again, universities say the lessons of a horror summer have not been forgotten

Sacked neuropathologist Manuel Graeber says university was happy with his work before he lodged disclosure about management

AI is helping us mine 200,000 stakeholders’ ideas, sensible and silly, about core elements of the new Adelaide University, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd

Free tuition also to be switched from first to last year of tertiary study, under pact between new governing parties

With potentially worrying changes to Australia’s research security arrangements odds-on to proceed, universities want clarification on amendments

Australian universities say remit of proposed watchdog needs ‘detailed examination’