As a new world ranking for the merged Adelaide and South Australia universities is released, Dr Chrisanthi Giotis calls for in-person lectures to be protected. “Fighting to find space in the timetable for lectures has been put in the too-hard basket. This is a tragedy.”

South Australia is in the midst of a massive experiment. The merger of two universities on the scale of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia is almost without precedent in the world. With experimentation comes rewards – but so too come risks.

The architects of this experiment can point to positive early rewards.

Adelaide University debuted in the prestigious QS University Rankings at equal 82 in the world and eighth nationally. It is already a member of the Group of Eight – Australia’s research-intensive universities – and is innovating in teaching through the development of the “common core”: six foundational subjects to be taught across the entire university.

Meanwhile, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which focuses on research, has it ranked at a respectable 176, which is slightly down on the University of Adelaide’s 2025 ranking but a........

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