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Steven Schwartz

September

This is the predicament facing vice-chancellors at the University of Technology Sydney and the Australian National University: UTS vice chancellor Andrew Parfitt.

Unis must be run like a business, whether academics like it or not

Staff unions are mobilising, newspapers are lamenting, and politicians are hand-wringing, but the arithmetic is unforgiving.

January

Universities are set to have international student numbers cut drastically.

Freedom, not more red tape, will save universities

There is no doubt that problems exist in Australia’s seat of higher learning. But the solution is better internal governance not bigger bureaucracies.

June 2023

The gateway to Harvard University has been open to some but less to others.

A great court victory for meritocracy

The US Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action has important lessons for the Voice debate in Australia.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/steven-schwartz-p536xx