Australia and New Zealand

Parliamentarians clash on funding discretion and whether it should continue, but agree on need for ARC review

Ostensibly family-friendly work arrangements assumed to benefit women can have the opposite effect, a study of academics’ lockdown experiences suggests

Head of IEAA tells UUK forum that government’s approach is about helping ‘corporate Australia’, not students

Global horrors reverberate in far-off campuses, widening the gap between students and their prosperous surrounds

Biomedical engineer talks about problem-solving, the importance of monitoring foetal cardiac health and why no one has got it quite right on STEM education for women

Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests

Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit

Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students

Vocational and higher education get equal billing, as Australian university groups unite in jobs-focused election spiel

Police, politicians, doctors, cleaners and school students share Southern Cross campus as an emergency base

Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’

Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students – and the ‘balancing act’ required of their lecturers