Australia and New Zealand

Economist released weeks after being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment over ‘trumped up’ charges

Non-partisan panel asked to update access targets and complete Bradley review’s unfinished business

Region’s biggest transformative agreement ‘an important first step’ in open access ‘journey’

Successful applications from south Asia fall off a cliff, as authorities struggle to distinguish genuine students from those with other things on their minds

You are part of the problem, academic union tells Labour, as government declines to ‘step in’

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

New Australian arrangement hailed as long overdue by many, but critics warn of unintended consequences

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Point-in-time study quantifies pandemic’s differential impacts on academics with children – particularly mothers

Go8 questions outsiders’ commitment to research, after advisory body raises doubts over education’s contribution to productivity

Other suggestions to ease military skill shortages include funding future reservists’ studies and ‘opening up’ to international students

While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees