Science jobs are vanishing in New Zealand as a review seeks to secure the sector’s future amid steep funding declines. timeshighereducation.com/news/new-zeala…

New Zealand has cancelled the upcoming round of its national research assessment, in what is widely regarded as a death blow for the decades-old exercise. timeshighereducation.com/news/new-zeala…

“We have a sense of justice and fairness [but] deception runs deeper and older as an evolutionary mechanism to help us succeed [and] save energy.” timeshighereducation.com/news/two-third…

Colluding with other students on ostensibly individual coursework was the most common form of cheating. 20% admitted plagiarising a few sentences, 14% owned up to plagiarising entire assignments, and 10% admitted fabricating research data. timeshighereducation.com/news/two-third…

Survey of almost 4,500 NZ students found that deception was rife, with two in three respondents admitting to academic misconduct over the previous year. timeshighereducation.com/news/two-third…

Cheating is “natural and normal” and New Zealand universities must be ready to deal with it, according to an architect of the first comprehensive study of academic wrongdoing by Kiwi undergraduates. timeshighereducation.com/news/two-third…

Nobel prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan says he might not have come to the UK if the current “unfriendly” visa regime for migrant scientists had been in place. timeshighereducation.com/news/venki-ram…

Three-quarters of prospective international students are concerned by recent UK government policy changes, according to a survey that warns that further restrictions could cause “irreversible harm” to the sector. timeshighereducation.com/news/more-visa…

“The practice of governments is now that when they get into a political hole, they just instinctively dig a deeper one.” timeshighereducation.com/news/immigrati…

Mike Ferguson, who led SSVF’s design and implementation as a former DHA policy director, said recent policy changes had led to visa delays and occasionally “nonsensical” refusals. “It is time to move away from a provider-risk based model.' timeshighereducation.com/news/immigrati…

Nine unis that previously had level 1 risk assessment were downgraded to level 2, when DHA updated the ratings on 2 April. Two other unis demoted from level 2 to level 3, with over 100 other colleges also understood to have had their risk ratings lowered. timeshighereducation.com/news/immigrati…

Eleven Australian universities have had their immigration risk levels downgraded, as soaring visa rejections undermine their future overseas enrolments. timeshighereducation.com/news/immigrati…

Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam have spawned significantly more visa applications despite increases in their visa refusal rates. Lodgments from China, whose visa refusal rate has remained very low, have increased by almost 5000 since October. timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-chao…

Visa applications from 4 countries previously among Australia’s top six higher ed source markets – India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bhutan – have slumped amid rising refusal rates. Lodgments also fell from Kenya and the Philippines. timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-chao…

Visa processing chaos has made Australia less attractive to foreign students, and the situation is set to get worse. timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-chao…

Graeme Innes: “The accord basically says we’re at parity in terms of students with disability, so we don’t need to do any more. That’s just clearly wrong. This is a huge setback. Universities will think, ‘we’ve ticked that box’.” timeshighereducation.com/news/disabilit…

Accord recommended aspirational participation targets for indigenous, regional and socioeconomically disadvantaged students, but not people with disabilities who had already exceeded their “expected enrolment share” of 8.4%, so no increase was warranted. timeshighereducation.com/news/disabilit…

Disability groups are demanding the retraction of part of the Australian Universities Accord’s final report, claiming that its “ableist language” and “data faults” risk disadvantaging millions of potential students. timeshighereducation.com/news/disabilit…

A survey of 660 early and mid-career health academics has captured a bleak view of their profession, with 46 per cent considering chucking it in and only 17 per cent prepared to recommend it as a career choice. timeshighereducation.com/news/academic-…

Academics with exclusive research responsibilities are more liable to quit, while those with teaching duties are more burned out, an Australian study suggests. timeshighereducation.com/news/academic-…