Is Australia’s latest research review a threat to university autonomy?

The panel’s overriding concern is to ensure that research is used productively. But observers worry that pushing universities to specialise in centrally determined ‘focus areas’ risks inadvertently turning them, in effect, into government agencies. John Ross reports

Published on
October 1, 2025
Last updated
September 30, 2025
Montage of Tesla Australia CEO Robyn Denholm and Australian science minister Ed Husic speaking during a press conference, 2 December 2024, with the University of Sydney and a production line of computer chips.
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