Staff and students at Australia’s La Trobe University have been told that if they don’t get vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease it may “compromise” their ability to fulfil their respective obligations for work or study. The university will “encourage” and support all staff and students to be vaccinated until the end of November, but by…

Hundreds of vaccinated international students will be returning to Australia by the end of the year after announcing an industry-funded pilot plan on Friday. The first phase of the pilot is expected to bring 500 international students back to the state on chartered flights by December, paid for by the students themselves. Students will return…

Australia’s leading research-intensive universities have submitted over 4,000 international arrangements for review as part of the government’s Foreign Relations Scheme (FRS). Under the scheme, the federal government is able to cancel international agreements that are deemed detrimental to Australia’s foreign policy and national interest. The Group of Eight (Go8) universities said their submission of thousands…

Australia’s leading research-intensive universities have submitted over 4,000 international arrangements for review as part of the government’s Foreign Relations Scheme (FRS). Under the scheme, the federal government is able to cancel international agreements that are deemed detrimental to Australia’s foreign policy and national interest. The Group of Eight (Go8) universities said their submission of thousands…

The University of Sydney is the latest member of the Group of Eight universities to report an operating surplus for 2020 despite the border lockdowns, which cost the sector around $1.8 billion in total revenue. On Thursday, Vice-Chancellor Stephen Garton reported that the university had an operating surplus of $106.6 million (US$82.3 million) last year…

Editors of a student-run newspaper in an Australian university have been slammed for their decision to withdraw an article detailing two academics’ ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to the current “escalating Sinophobia” in society. University of Sydney’s Honi Soit newspaper released a story on March 31 claiming two professors from its engineering…