All types of academic continuing and fixed term employment increased between 2022 and 2023. education.gov.au/higher-educati…

Why caps on international students are a bad idea: they will cut enrolments by more than the cap levels suggest, and replace a rules-based system with undesirable levels of bureaucratic & political discretion. andrewnorton.net.au/2024/05/13/lim…

Govt determining how many customers each org/company in an industry can have is a recipe for chaos & unending arguments. It’s certainly not a sound basis for managing an industry. afr.com/politics/feder…

Helpful Abul Rizvi article on the implications of formal caps on international student numbers.

Three bad uni news stories on page 1 of today's Australian.

More UQ annual report insights into Morrison govt. COVID uni largesse. Unlike its JobKeeper money UQ did not return its RSP windfall. But UQ received so much RSP money it took 3 years to spend it all. uq.edu.au/about/organisa…

I still see academics grumbling about unis not getting JobKeeper, even though few if any would have qualified even if the government had been less restrictive. andrewnorton.net.au/2021/07/06/wou…

Reading through old uni annual reports I was amused to see that UQ, in light of its large surpluses in 2020 & 2021, refunded its JobKeeper payments to the govt. (12 unis got it via subsidiaries).