Auckland ‘too slow’ to protect academic from pandemic threats Judge tells university to pay damages but rules there was no breach of Siouxsie Wiles’ academic freedom By Helen Packer 8 July
New Zealand seeks to drive up degree completion rates When too many students fail to graduate, small investments can make a world of difference, says commission By John Ross 8 July
Name change demands over university namesake’s colonial legacy La Trobe moniker celebrates a genocidal past, staff and students say By John Ross 6 July
Australia’s international student caps ‘will cost billions’ Big business and states join universities in opposing proposed limits By John Ross 5 July
Take a chill pill on overseas student caps, universities told Proposal an improvement on current ‘blunt tools’ that undermine policy and facilitate exploitation, says Australian Labor MP and former international education boss By John Ross 4 July
Exam halls with high ceilings linked to worse academic outcomes Effect persists even after controlling for numerous variables, leaving researchers to puzzle over how brain and body are affected by large rooms By Juliette Rowsell 3 July
Visa delays continue to plague Australian universities Universities haemorrhage money as students face months-long waits By John Ross 3 July
Overseas enrolments rebound in New Zealand universities Slow easing of Covid border restrictions helped international education avoid purges elsewhere, figures suggest By John Ross 2 July
Banning ChatGPT in unsupervised exams ‘pointless’ Generative AI is ‘a bit like teenage snogging – everyone’s doing it although no one really knows how’ By John Ross 1 July
Massive increase to Australian student visa fees ‘Outrageous impost’ to fund domestic education initiatives is ‘robbing Ranjit to pay for Richard’ By John Ross 1 July
‘Inflection point’ for disabilities in higher education Political and fiscal realities are driving changes in the treatment of a ‘long overlooked’ community By John Ross 30 June
Australian opposition pushes for campus antisemitism inquiry Proposed commission would probe ‘massive surge’ in antisemitic incidents and ‘capitulation to extremists’ By John Ross 28 June
