Buoyant figures reflect enrolment decisions made before politicians attempted to bring in restrictions, vice-chancellor says

Doubling of international fees, closing visa ‘loopholes’ and tying student debt to mortgages among the ideas proposed ahead of poll

Labor proposes A$400 hike to what are already the highest fees in the world with the opposition Liberal Party planning even steeper increases

Australian scholars with ongoing roles almost as fearful as casuals about being out of work

While main parties battle over debt-wipe proposal in Australian election, critic says scale of fees is the real issue

Vice-chancellors say they have ‘no choice’ about downsizing, but unions question the need as 2024 accounts reveal recovery trend

Study findings misrepresented in experimental Q&A published with paper, amid concerns efforts to save researchers time are fuelling mistakes

Australia must fund its universities in ways that reflect their mission – not just their margins, say Rhodri Davies and Dorrit Jacob

National security U-turn ‘cutting Australia off from knowledge creation frontier’ just as US turns its back on collaboration

New restrictions following pro-Palestinian encampments appear to contravene Australian universities’ commitments on free speech, says legal academic

Three-term system ‘suited the time’, but post-pandemic conditions bring new priorities, says university

As people from non-traditional backgrounds become the majority in Australian universities, a legal academic argues that efforts to accommodate them can help the old guard too