Australia and New Zealand

We can’t deliver equivalent teaching with less preparation time and resources, RMIT academics say

Research-funding decision processes and rejections should be open and transparent, but this time they weren’t, say Libby Lester and Brett Hutchins 

Applications and offers tumble for the first time this decade

Storm of protest across academia against Simon Birmingham's scuttling of humanities grants worth A$4.2 million (£2.3 million) 

Political intervention at odds with government’s free speech campaign

Older partner left with regrets, as youngster pulls plug on mooted marriage

Consultants argue Humboldtian ideal of research-informed teaching ‘shackles’ institutions into uniformity

Negotiations unable to reach agreement on ‘threshold issues and strategic risks’

Regional universities ‘would be biggest victims’ of restrictions on city study

Government support for rural university initiative may not get it across the line

The animosity towards higher education seen in the UK is likely to head Down Under, vice-chancellor warns

The entrepreneurial chemist talks about molecular tools, batteries in the walls and a three-slice secret to success