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Tim DoddHigher Education Editor

Tim Dodd is The Australian’s higher education editor. He has over 25 years experience as a journalist covering a wide variety of areas in public policy, economics, politics and foreign policy, including reporting from the Canberra press gallery and four years based in Jakarta as South East Asia correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. He was named 2014 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by the National Press Club.

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Master plan will ‘enliven’ SCU Lismore campus

New master plan will transform Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus and link to local business and the community.

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Pro-Palestinian and Jewish protesters face off near Melbourne University, main, and bottom left; the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine flag at the University of Queensland; and children learning anti-Israel chants at the University of Sydney.

Moral leadership is in absentia: cowardly chancellors won’t condemn anti-Semitism

University chancellors have been accused of failing to find the right balance between freedom of speech and ensuring safety on university campuses, as tensions rose between Jewish students and pro-Palestinian protesters.

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International students boost unis’ bottom line

A $500m boost from international student fees pushed Victoria’s eight Victorian universities collectively into the black in 2023 after major losses the previous year.

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Hard cap on student visas is ‘terrible’ policy

A “blunt, hard cap” on the number of international students entering Australia would be “a terrible policy tool”, says Labor MP Julian Hill.

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Rental crisis not sparked by students, say top unis

Rising numbers of international students did not cause the housing crisis, say the Group of Eight universities in a new economic paper.

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Online tool helps with tax-exempt status

Over 150,000 non-charitable, not-for-profit groups will have to lodge a new return this year to be eligible for tax exempt status, and this tool can help.

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Clinical psychology places to double to meet demand

As more people seek mental health help, one Queensland uni is offering $30 psychology consultations to the public and sharply increasing student intake.

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