Coalition would also turn prac payments into loans, save on CSPs by prioritising one-year dip eds, and reap over $1bn in indexation savings by abandoning Labor's HECS repayment changes and debt forgiveness. timeshighereducation.com/news/australia…

Australia’s higher education community is pressing Canberra to push ahead with the Universities Accord reforms following the Labor Party’s decisive election win on 3 May. timeshighereducation.com/news/now-imple…

Re-elected government urged to treat international students with more compassion amid warnings that the country risks “losing the trust of a generation”, and signs that visa changes are pushing institutions out of business. timeshighereducation.com/news/clarity-n…

“Students might tolerate $1,600 visa fee if they’re investing $100k+ for a degree from a major university but [not] if they’re paying $5,000 for a 15-week English course – particularly when they stand a good chance of being rejected.” timeshighereducation.com/news/clarity-n…

Top-performing New Zealand school students are far more likely than their less academically inclined peers to go to another country for tertiary education, and the gap is widening, research suggests. timeshighereducation.com/news/cleverest…

Many top kiwi school leavers thought to be studying in Australia, in contradiction of former NZ prime minister Robert Muldoon’s legendary put-down that “New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries." timeshighereducation.com/news/cleverest…

Australia’s share of demand from international students has reportedly increased by 8 per cent this year, in the latest indication that the industry’s gloomy forecasts may be overstated. timeshighereducation.com/news/internati…

Australia was the only major destination to record an uptick over the first three months of 2025, suggesting that problems in international education may be more pronounced elsewhere. timeshighereducation.com/news/internati…

University administrators are scaling back campus developments as physical and digital investments become “increasingly an either-or proposition”, research suggests. timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

Cost pressures forcing university administrators to “choose between physical and digital environments”, despite mounting scepticism that information technology overhauls deliver productivity improvements, according to Nous Group analysis. timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

Two of Australia’s richest unis reaped sector-record income in a year of policy upheavals that threatened the nation's research effort. Robust surpluses sit uneasily in a sector characterised by bitter pay disputes and underpayment scandals. timeshighereducation.com/news/record-ea…

New Zealand unis sidestep deficit but brace for tough times ahead of a “tight” budget on 22 May. timeshighereducation.com/news/nz-v-cs-b…

VU and WSU among five foreign unis whose applications to establish branch campuses have been greenlighted by India’s University Grants Commission, raising questions about financial viability of such plans. timeshighereducation.com/news/india-gre…

Australian universities’ definition of antisemitism is so poorly drafted that it will not achieve any of its objectives but will exacerbate anti-Jewish sentiment by stifling legitimate criticism of Israel, a legal academic has warned. timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

Canberra’s migration policy poses an existential threat to industry as well as universities, and the two can only secure their futures by working together, new Universities Australia chair Carolyn Evans has warned. timeshighereducation.com/news/time-be-i…

“If govt feels it's in the national interest to cut international students, we have to recognise that universities cannot make further cuts to meet that gap. We’re already seeing hundreds, thousands of jobs being lost and that’s not sustainable.” timeshighereducation.com/news/time-be-i…

“The taxpayer has an outstandingly good education system [for] a relatively modest contribution. We need a sensible position between allowing international students in…plus a reconsideration of the funding that the government puts into universities." timeshighereducation.com/news/time-be-i…

Chinese students provided Sydney’s biggest universities with almost one-third of their revenue last year, in a sign that the federal government’s international education crackdown has not eased the sector’s reliance on Australia’s combative near neighbour. timeshighereducation.com/news/top-sydne…

Chinese enrolments accounted for 78% of international education revenue at University of Sydney in 2024, and 77% at UNSW. This translates to about $1.25 billion and $1.087 billion respectively, representing 32% of each institution’s overall earnings. timeshighereducation.com/news/top-sydne…

Critics warned that govt’s international ed policies would intensify China skew. Chinese students more able to afford visa fee hikes, while now replaced MD107 – which favoured visa applications from low immigration risk countries – also benefited Chinese. timeshighereducation.com/news/top-sydne…