Take time on new research sharing rules, Canberra urged While concessions and newly flagged exemptions provide reassurance over Australia’s proposed defence trade control changes, ‘grey areas’ remain By John Ross 7 December
Sharon Pickering named Monash vice-chancellor Australia’s biggest university appoints from within after ‘rigorous and broad-scale’ executive search By John Ross 6 December
University expertise paramount as world faces ‘scary transition’ Academy and fifth estate must team up, Nobel laureate says, as 3.2 billion people prepare to vote in a reality-free zone By John Ross 5 December
Tally of ‘underpaid’ Australian university staff nears 100,000 All but a handful of universities now tarnished by short-changing scandal, according to academic union By John Ross 5 December
Government will pilfer international levy proceeds, critics warn Criticism of Australia’s ‘tax’ on international students escalates amid signs that it may be a done deal By John Ross 4 December
Seamlessness and vision required to commercialise research Australia has made strides in developing a commercialisation culture but still has a long way to go, says new STA president By John Ross 2 December
Seasonal employment ruling ‘could slash Australian casualisation’ Delight and alarm in equal measures, as political manoeuvres and drafting technicalities limit both casual employment and its antidote By John Ross 30 November
Back to black: Australian universities brace for bushfire season As Australia’s climate turns back again, universities say the lessons of a horror summer have not been forgotten By John Ross 28 November
‘Serious misconduct’ prompted Sydney whistleblower’s removal Sacked neuropathologist Manuel Graeber says university was happy with his work before he lodged disclosure about management By John Ross 27 November
For reimagining Australian tertiary education, many heads beat two AI is helping us mine 200,000 stakeholders’ ideas, sensible and silly, about core elements of the new Adelaide University, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd By Peter Høj 26 November
Protect free speech or lose cash, New Zealand universities warned Free tuition also to be switched from first to last year of tertiary study, under pact between new governing parties By John Ross 24 November
Jail threats met with call for ‘balance’ on research sharing With potentially worrying changes to Australia’s research security arrangements odds-on to proceed, universities want clarification on amendments By John Ross 23 November
