Howard-era reforms to higher education have led to a lack of transparency and democratic accountability within the councils that govern Australia’s public universities. These issues are epitomised in the proposed merger of the University of Adelaide with the University of South Australia, a case which shows why reform is needed, argue the authors of this...

The authors of this paper argue that a levy on international student fees that supported a redistributive function would be a radical policy step, and go far beyond those effective specific-purpose levies already in operation in Australia. It raises several issues that would need to be carefully considered, as it would likely need to collect...

The Institute of Public Affairs’ 'Free speech on campus audit 2023' is the fourth systematic analysis of more than 279 policies at Australia’s 42 universities. The audit rates each university’s support for free speech by analysing policies that restrict expression.

The aim of this paper is to consider the views and attitudes towards education in Australia, how these attitudes vary across the population, and how they have changed over time.

This report examines non-academic employees in New Zealand universities. It presents and analyses a range of data from the New Zealand Ministry of Education, and from universities themselves, to investigate the scale and composition of New Zealand universities’ administrative staffing.