Australia and New Zealand

Kiwi institutions committed to ‘academic audit as a concept’ but look to save costs

Union demands parliamentary inquiry as instances continue to emerge

As Australia mulls ‘hard’ caps on domestic as well as international students, expert warns of unintended consequences

Canberra quietly scrapped plans to join world’s biggest research collaboration scheme in mid-2023

Proposed body must have ‘mundane’ expertise and avoid being the ‘long grass of policy’, new group says

Accord panellists’ ‘preferred options’ also include ‘equity levy’ on high-fee courses and no change to international education

Crackdown proposed without any forethought about the broader consequences, Press Club hears

Government’s proposal will intensify the problem it is supposed to solve while ‘wreaking havoc’ on universities’ finances, universities say

Proposed visa caps, soaring rejection rates and ‘anti-China’ perceptions scaring off country’s most valuable student cohort

A fixation on publishing in ‘academic comic books’ is subverting the values permeating business schools, conference hears

Australians are less convinced about the upsides of the educational relationship but also less concerned about the downsides, survey suggests

Stronger leadership, fresher thinking and better incentives needed to drive action on sustainability, says Auckland vice-chancellor