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Australian universities

News, comment and analysis on higher education and research in Australia

August 2024

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    What’s 2024’s most popular sport?

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    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Repeating climate denial claims makes them seem more credible, Australian-led study finds

  • Illustration showing stacks of foreign currency that make up a university building.

    Degrees devalued
    Alarm bells over Australian universities’ financial dependence on international students

  • Defence minister Richard Marles

    Australia news live
    Marles refuses to say when US B-52s will start NT deployment – as it happened

July 2024

  • Rows of students sitting at individual desks for exams

    Degrees devalued
    I know why students cheat. It’s time for Australian universities to do something about it

    Guy Curtis
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    Degrees devalued
    Lures and violent threats: old school cheating still rampant at Australian universities, even as AI rises

  • Illustration for university series. The image shows multiple graduation caps, with one cap made out of Australian 100 dollar notes.

    Full Story
    How the pursuit of profit is devaluing Australian degrees – Full Story podcast

  • Illustration shows a degree certificate being put through a shredder

    Degrees devalued
    ‘Nobody is blind to it’: mass cheating through AI puts integrity of Australian universities at risk, academics claim

  • Australia news live
    Aurora australis may be visible, BoM says – as it happened

  • Degrees devalued
    Australian universities accused of awarding degrees to students with no grasp of ‘basic’ English

  • Australia’s $50,000 arts degree is here – putting university fees on par with the UK and US

  • ANU launches review into investment portfolio after pro-Palestine protests

  • Canberra trial shows EVs can provide backup power to grid in blackouts and emergencies

  • University of Sydney students and staff blast new ‘draconian’ protest crackdown

  • International students left feeling like ‘cash cows’ after Albanese government raises visa fees

  • Australia news live
    Dutton says ‘Australia can learn’ from new British PM’s nuclear stance – as it happened

  • Australia news live
    Senator says PM’s office planted seed about crossing floor – as it happened

  • Australian universities clash over proposed international student cap

  • Counter-terror police charge pair with vandalism offences at university in Sydney

  • International students should make up no more than a third of university cohort, RMIT vice-chancellor says

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