Australian universities are placing extra restrictions and rejecting student visas from India and Nepal as the government’s push to lower international students numbers continues to put pressure on the tertiary sector.
Author: Angus McGregor
The USU has announced Michael Bromley as their interim CEOfor the next six months following the resignation of Andrew Mills in March.
NSW Minister for Transport Jo Haylen has released a response to the ‘Fair Fairs’ petition which signals that the government will not change their policy on concession cards for part time and international students.
A 27-year-old University of Sydney student has been identified as the sixth victim of the stabbing attack at Bondi Junction.
The eleven candidates listed on the notice, in alphabetical order by last name, are: Harshita Bandari, James Dwyer, Angus Fisher, Ethan Floyd, Simon Homsany, Daniel Park, Orlando Throsby, Naomi Viegas, Phan Vu, Georgia Zhang and Zixuan Zhang.
The Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) has opened a new food pantry for postgraduate students in the Wentworth building. Based on the successful FoodHub model managed by the USU, the pantry is free for all SUPRA members.
The City of Sydney council passed a motion on April 8th in support of the campaign to get international and part time students concession opal cards as pressure mounts on the NSW government from student organisations, universities, and MPs to legislate the policy in the upcoming budget.
The University of Melbourne has admitted to multiple breaches of the Fair Work Act and been ordered by a federal judge to pay $75,000 after threatening to punish two casual academics for working outside their contracted hours.
A new report by The Australia Institute reveals that last year, Australian universities and research institutions spent over $322 million on journal subscriptions and a total of $1 billion on academic publishers.
On March 25, the editors of Noise, UNSW’s independent student publication established earlier this month, received a “cease and desist” email from Arc @ UNSW’s Director of Marketing & Experience, Mitchell McBurnie.