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Horse-trading looms, as opposition senators reject legislation outright and crossbenchers demand changes

The legislation must also ensure mission-based compacts protect equity, academic freedom and civic engagement, say Jesse Gardner-Russell and Richard Lee

Quid pro quo recognition of prior learning seen as a ‘game-changing opportunity’ for ߣߣÊÓƵn students and universities

Leeser promises ‘consultation’ on international education while pruning the ‘thicket of regulation’ in speech to Universities ߣߣÊÓƵ conference

Findings outline need for systemic whole-of-sector reforms, commissioner says

Proposed set-up will not delay Job-ready Graduates overhaul, stand-in boss tells Senate hearing

Researchers brace for renewed funding uncertainty as security checks prove ‘more time-consuming than imagined’

Joint statement declares support for ‘new form of stewardship’ as legislation faces rocky ride through Senate

Legislation to create ߣߣÊÓƵ’s tertiary education steward has passed the lower house of federal parliament ahead of a looming Senate showdown

Institutional blind spots around part-time ߣߣÊÓƵn students seen as making life unnecessarily difficult ‘for people on the breadline’

Government faces horse-trading in the Senate, as shadow minister flags outright rejection of bill to establish commission

Recommendations from strategic R&D review still unknown, but ߣߣÊÓƵn representative groups want them funded anyway

Fund underspent even as its value rises, as government curbs payouts and grant success rates head south

Multiple calls to extend Atec’s remit, as the cost of arts degrees edges past A$54K

‘Do it properly or don’t bother,’ commission sceptic advises, as others argue for more chiefs

Former University Alliance head returns to UK to lead research universities group after more than a decade in ߣߣÊÓƵ

Shadow minister calls for newly established ߣߣÊÓƵn Royal Commission to scrutinise universities in wake of deadly Bondi beach attack

Interim leaders’ early departure the latest snag in controversial commission’s troubled birth

Serial reviewer and interim higher education steward to head governing body of sunshine state’s sandstone university

ߣߣÊÓƵ’s new higher education steward may lack the power to overhaul widely opposed system of university fees and subsidies

Political battles over a planned New Zealand medical school illustrate how the subject of where doctors are trained excites public passions like no other in higher education, explains John Ross

Esteemed practitioner and defender of the humanities Graeme Turner dies months after seminal treatise on the state of the academy

New legislation creating ߣߣÊÓƵn commission represents ‘the obliteration of the idea that universities have purposes independent of government’, critics say

As government finalises legislation for forthcoming commission, architect expands its to-do list

Even though minor downswing could be no more than ‘statistical noise’, governance inquisitor chides sector for ‘stunning’ lack of curiosity

People climbing down the qualification ladder shows that higher education has not gone to plan, study suggests

Legal restrictions prevented ߣߣÊÓƵn universities from sharing financial documents despite completing merger, former deputy vice-chancellor reveals

Hands-off councils said to have contributed to ‘governance crisis’ that ߣߣÊÓƵn sector ‘needed and in many respects deserved’

Government and business should pick up the tab for national priorities, says opposition leader turned university boss

Federal government must ‘take proper responsibility’ for a university sector ‘which in practice it controls’, MPs told

Macquarie insists due diligence on joint institute has been ‘comprehensive’, despite partner’s links with surveillance research

Governments leaning on agencies to convert autonomous institutions into ‘strategic national asset’ but face task like ‘herding cats’

‘Unjustified’ and ‘vague’ proposal would vest too much discretion in ߣߣÊÓƵn ministers, critics say

Focus on educating locals, education minister says, as international enrolments creep over half on some campuses

Tertiary harmonisation agreement in Canberra sees students guaranteed direct university entry and up to a year’s credit if they want to progress

Antisemitism and Indigenous voice campaigner Julian Leeser appointed Liberal education spokesman

UK offers reassuring familiarity for Charles Darwin’s TNE ‘push’ but vice-chancellor says its MBA courses will be unlike anything already available

Lingering financial pressures mean country is ‘not out of the woods’ despite strong showing this year, expert warns

Atec needs to ensure that compacts genuinely strengthen social licence and drive meaningful change – not just compliance, says Zlatko Skrbis 

Entry scores for overseas students increasingly disparate, as immigration authorities approve more tests

Shadow minister promises bipartisanship but ‘no blank cheque’, with commission’s funding activities set for particular scrutiny

Good progress has been made on implementing the Universities Accord but much more is needed to achieve parity, say five deputy vice-chancellors

A ‘disconnect’ between aspirational rhetoric and the realities of ‘live’ admissions risks undermining ߣߣÊÓƵ’s inclusion goals

Foreign arrangements scheme an example of the regulatory ‘thicket’ smothering universities’ core business, v-cs tell governance inquiry

‘Intrinsic worth’ of university experience a ‘protective factor’ against poor well-being and psychological stress, survey suggests

Universities need extra funding for ‘important’ but unfancied subjects, and permission to collude without contravening competition law, says Evans

A$770m measure would be a ‘serious downpayment’ on reversal of Job-ready Graduates ‘excesses’, representative group says

Recognition of prior learning is feasible at scale if done systematically and could generate new business for universities, experts say

Broadening traditional conceptions of what it means to be ‘smart’ must now be part of HE’s mission, say Adelaide University’s David Lloyd and Peter Høj

ߣߣÊÓƵ shadow minister promises ‘nuance’ and a far less combative approach following ‘thumping election loss’

ߣߣÊÓƵn race commissioner criticises proposal to withhold university funding, as watchdog begins ‘landmark’ survey of racism

As tertiary education representatives gather for the round table before the round table, university voices remain mostly absent from the main show

Educators hail ‘stability and certainty’, as government stresses ‘sustainable growth’ mantra

Amalgamation of Perth institutions up for discussion again, two years after review went nowhere

Promised 20 per cent cut set to be tabled in parliament, but new analysis shows real relief for graduates may end up being just 7.9 per cent

Joint statement calls for immediate cost reductions for those coming to study for 12 months or less

Funder proposes to create stand-alone fellowship scheme for early-career researchers after criticism