This Month
ANU cuts jobs to save $250m as overseas student cap bites
Chancellor Julie Bishop’s leadership of the Australian National University has been questioned after a major savings plan that will axe at least 50 jobs was announced.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Freedom of speech
CCTV and sleepover bans: universities clamp down on protests
Universities are in a balancing act trying to protect the right to protest while also keeping students and staff safe in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitism.
- Julie Hare
September
Mercury hits the right note at JMC Academy; buys majority stake
JMC’s alumni include Pacific Avenue’s Harry O’Brien, Universal Music Group’s Brent “Quincy” Buchanan and Animal Logic Entertainment’s Felicity Staunton.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Alcohol
I took a pill to fix my drinking problem
It’s the magic drug for hard drinkers that has an 80 per cent success rate, so why is this treatment so under-prescribed?
- Annabel Fenwick-Elliott
How Australia crushed the COVID curve and lost the race
This country had one of the best-designed economic responses in the world, and one of the worst vaccine procurement processes.
- Richard Holden and Steven Hamilton
- Opinion
- University
There is a much better way to fund universities’ R&D spend
The damage that international student caps would do to our sovereign research capability can be addressed by fully funding research overheads.
- Richard Holden
- Opinion
- Jobs
Always been a blusher? It’s a good sign
Embarrassing moments can humanise us and can bond us to one another. Studies have even shown that those who display signs of it tend to be more trusted than those who don’t.
- Jemima Kelly
- Exclusive
- Education
Grok Academy’s founder resigns with workplace investigation under way
The free technology education group championed by billionaire businessman Richard White has already made the majority of its staff redundant.
- Updated
- Jemima Whyte
‘Perilous’: doctors warn pregnant women at risk from medicine shortages
Experts warn that supplies of crucial obstetric medicines are running short in Australia, putting pregnant women at risk from serious conditions like preeclampsia.
- Gus McCubbing
Probe over safety of Jewish students at Sydney University
The SafeWork NSW investigation follows a warning from Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus that universities have to do more to stop antisemitism.
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Playing Solomon on bitter divisions in private health
Health Minister Mark Butler’s review must eventually produce healthier private hospitals and health insurers that pass on the benefits in lower premiums.
- The AFR View
Sydney Uni VC asked security about terror groups at protests
No concerns about Hizb ut-Tahrir have been raised by police or intelligence agencies, says Sydney University vice chancellor Mark Scott
- Tom Burton
Investors have moved away on private hospitals, industry warns
Investors in private hospital developments have shifted away from the sector, further heaping pressure on the healthcare system.
- James Hall and Michael Smith
August
Why Australia’s sick hospitals are on the brink
Australians are paying more for surgery in private hospitals than ever, and there is no cure in sight for facilities struggling with record costs and fees.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Andrew Pridham finds SA uni merger too gamey to chew
The veteran dealmaker lasted only three months on the Adelaide University Transition Council.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Health insurance shouldn’t be private hospitals’ field of dreams
Instead of protecting private hospitals from predatory insurers, an obsolete contract framework protects operators from full accountability for inefficiencies and misjudgments.
- Terry Barnes
Vice chancellors feel the political heat
Universities say they are in crisis after Labor’s cap on overseas students, but the education minister says his priority is getting more equity students into the system.
- Jennifer Hewett
Industrial laws stifle private sector collaboration
Industrial relations laws are stopping universities better collaborating with private experts, says Macquarie Uni’s vice chancellor.
- Tom Burton
Gaza protests my most difficult issue, says Sydney Uni’s Scott
Resolving the Gaza protests has been the most difficult challenge of his public professional career, says Sydney University vice chancellor, Mark Scott
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- The AFR View
University scapegoats still need to get houses in order
The Higher Education Summit heard a system based on decades of massive expansion, loan-funded students and big injections of foreign students is at a watershed.
- The AFR View