Books & Arts
10 March 2023
A centenary history traces the fits, starts and tensions surrounding Melbourne University Press
National Affairs
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
Essays & Reportage
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
Books & Arts
3 September 2021
The Chair’s portrayal of academic life has a blind spot
From the archive
4 June 2021
The pandemic has exposed longstanding problems in Australian universities. But it’s possible to map a way out
National Affairs
25 March 2021
A unique medium for disseminating academic research is celebrating its first decade
Books & Arts
24 November 2020
Books | A centenary history reveals how vice-chancellors have negotiated shifts in politics and policy
National Affairs
15 October 2020
Is university governance getting in the way of a healthy higher education system?
National Affairs
13 July 2020
Britain and Australia have reacted very differently to the pandemic’s impact on higher education
National Affairs
26 June 2020
The government’s latest funding plan will reshape higher education
National Affairs
17 June 2020
Calls for universities to reduce their reliance on international students ignore the incentives created by successive governments
National Affairs
1 June 2020
Covid-19 has exposed deep flaws in the structure of Australia’s higher education system
Essays & Reportage
5 March 2020
Extract | Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
Books & Arts
29 October 2019
The scrapping of Sydney University’s professorship has great symbolic importance
Essays & Reportage
15 October 2019
Is an opportunity being lost in the midst of the Chinese student boom?
Books & Arts
7 February 2019
The goal might be the same, but each publisher finds its own way of connecting writers and readers
Books & Arts
29 January 2019
Books | How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Books & Arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Essays & Reportage
24 September 2018
The Ramsay Centre is still seeking a home for its Western civilisation course, but the concept itself doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
National Affairs
14 August 2018
Along with the vast increase in migration, most signs point to increased cooperation between Australia and India
National Affairs
26 June 2018
Did the Ramsay Centre throw away its best chance by pushing ANU too far?
Books & Arts
8 March 2018
Books | Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”?
Books & Arts
24 January 2018
Books | A senior vice-chancellor argues for big changes in tertiary education — but not in universities
Essays & Reportage
21 September 2017
Australian universities need to guard against the possibility that collaborations with their Chinese peers could undermine free enquiry
Essays & Reportage
15 June 2016
Credentialism has distorted the direction and basis of half a century’s education and training policy, argues Dean Ashenden
Books & Arts
21 March 2016
Books | Anna Clark gives academic historians plenty to think about, writes Carolyn Holbrook
Books & Arts
27 October 2015
Books | Two opposing views of the university run through Hannah Forsyth’s historically based account, writes Simon Marginson
Essays & Reportage
25 May 2015
ASIO’s ambivalence about Manning Clark might not have incited a diplomatic training incident, writes Alan Fewster. But Clark’s response, thinly veiled as…
Books & Arts
30 March 2015
Books | Two new books highlight how Australian universities have changed in recent decades, writes Beverley Kingston
National Affairs
24 March 2015
Historically and comparatively, public funding of Australian universities is at a record-breaking low, writes Rodney Tiffen