Rules designed for adversaries do not help against friends, expert warns, as US grills Australian researchers on DEI, ‘environmental justice’, ‘gender ideology’ and China links

Teaching and nursing enrolments surge as students seek ‘safer’ career paths in an uncertain and expensive world

Reforms to boost opportunities for those just starting out could have the opposite effect, observers warn

Students spiked their visa paperwork to bolster their chances next time around, new data suggests

Teqsa’s request for extra clout to tackle ‘systemic’ governance failures deemed too much by some, too little and late by others

Australian east coast campuses emerge from lockdown after wayward storm pulled its punches

Recording gender identity but not sex perpetuates historical exclusion of women from research, paper argues

The marine biologist and new University of Melbourne vice-chancellor is intent on using insights from beneath the waves to keep her institution afloat through the brewing storms

Communing with long-term residents is vital to overseas learners’ well-being but can leave them feeling more isolated than ever

Experts concede shortcomings in the oversight of universities but question whether Teqsa is best placed to resolve them

Australian department ‘not aware’ of computer ‘bug’ that applicants blame for torpedoing their PhD dreams

VET needs a boost, researcher argues, amid counter-claims that higher education is on the back foot