Appointments and Achievements (November 27)
Muthupandian Ashokkumar becomes director of Uni Melbourne’s Global Centre, in New Delhi. He moves from Assistant DVC International. The (US) Association for Computing Machinery awards its to 20224 Gordon Bell […]
Needed numbers to count climate change
Australia isn’t in shape to answer key questions about the environment and climate change. Fortunately the Academy of Science is here to help, with a decadal plan for earth system […]
Clare on front foot on uni pay
The Education Minister was outmanoeuvred by the Opposition and Greens on international student caps but now he has a new pitch – ensuring universities pay people what they are owed […]
Bell inherits trust deficit at ANU
Another week, another walloping for ANU management plans to save money. Vice Chancellor Genevieve Bell is looking to reduce spending by $250m overall, including a $100 cut in staff costs. […]
Assumption: Students’ use of AI is motivated by laziness
Our cross-institutional survey of 8,028 university students found that 85% of students use AI because it makes tasks faster and easier. One interpretation of this result may be to think […]
Unis caught in political caps chaos
University lobbies that denounced Labor over international student quotas have to change tack if they want to remain in the game. Labor isn’t completely friendless in Parliament over international student […]
How the Coalition will make universities an election issue
There was a debate in the Reps the other day about construction skill shortages. It was standard stuff, part of the Opposition’s pushing back on the Government’s sell of “fee-free […]