Australia and New Zealand

Sector looks to Universities Accord to consummate budget’s ‘down payment’

University leaders under pressure to do more with less amid demands from students for a ‘great hybrid experience’

Academics’ rush to cater for different learning preferences with plethora of readings, videos and slides leaves course participants fatigued

Australian universities push responsibility for casualisation onto Canberra’s funding arrangements

As rentals become scarcer and dearer, international students are increasingly unwilling to travel without pre-arranged lodgings

May Day rallies kick off a ‘week of action’ from coast to coast, as more union branches plan stoppages – and others reach agreement

Rare involvement of learned academy in establishing ‘reasonable doubt’ over child murder conviction paves way for mechanisms to forestall future injustices

Figures indicate ‘crisis point’ for spending on science and innovation, learned academy warns

Home affairs minister flags better migration pathways for foreign students, but tougher entry standards in the first place

Despite ‘debt avalanche’, universities stress that tuition fee loans are ‘not like grocery bills’

Parental income should not influence eligibility for living allowances, Australian academics argue

‘Entrenched’ workplace attitudes mean increase in female science and technology graduates is not transforming the field