Australia and New Zealand

Biggest pay packet in at least five years drives average leaders’ pay into seven figures, raising questions over Canberra boss’ surprise departure

Home affairs and skills portfolios in new hands, in first changes to Labor government’s ministry

As Australian scheme that encourages professionals to change career expands across border, former academic attests to its value in easing transition

First comprehensive research university to fully switch to block teaching believes it is destined to become ‘more mainstream’

State governments, policy experts and law council present united front against federal proposal

Go8 report outlines 10-year ‘roadmap’ to boost investment, arguing ‘substantial’ change needed

Years of tight funding settlements, exacerbated by high inflation and recent research cuts, have left New Zealand’s higher education and research sectors in a parlous state. Will the comprehensive reviews under way help them dodge the looming cyclone? John Ross reports  

While Australia says it wants universities ‘going to the world’, its policies are making it harder

The government must recognise that lower international revenues will make research costs unsustainable, says John Carroll

Programme details released as Adelaide’s universities enter final stage of merger

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles, who was harassed over pandemic commentaries, fears New Zealand’s universities still too slow to protect staff

Judge tells university to pay damages but rules there was no breach of Siouxsie Wiles’ academic freedom