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Stephen Matchett

The Australian

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Jason Clare is using university failures to justify a power grab

Jason Clare is using university failures to justify a power grab

Reducing the university sector’s already eroded autonomy would turn them into government agencies – at the political whim of ministers and their...

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Financial Review

Stephen Matchett

University leaders are still blind to their critical reputational threat

16.12.2025 20

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

HECS cut: half the $16bn relief aids top earners and lets unis dodge hard questions

09.12.2025 20

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Why those $50k arts degrees will not get cheaper any time soon

02.12.2025 20

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

The language of loss: the vital uni subject we need but the one nobody will study

18.11.2025 10

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Chaotic new uni that few wanted may be a blueprint for future

11.11.2025 20

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

New pay rules a well-earned slap in the chops for our uni fat cats

29.10.2025 20

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

What unis could learn from our 88-year-old Nobel Prize winner

14.10.2025 20

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Old, rich and ‘elite’: trading on reputations long out of date

08.10.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

To rebuild public trust, step out of ivory tower and work for community

24.09.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

ANU case rings a warning over power and cash

17.09.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

ANU chief falls to activist staff power in successful witch-hunt

12.09.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Time rich, money poor: Why graduates are abandoning flawed PhD system

10.09.2025 60

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Reformation wars: What Jason Clare and Henry VIII have in common

03.09.2025 40

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Change is coming to the way universities are run, and they only have themselves to blame

26.08.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

AI offers opportunity to do away with university snobbery

20.08.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett

Transformation is going nowhere until this $16bn mess of research grants is fixed

12.08.2025 30

The Australian

Stephen Matchett