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Sally Rawsthorne

Sally Rawsthorne

Sally Rawsthorne is The Sydney Morning Herald’s higher education reporter.

The University of Sydney saw a 6.6% growth in full-time domestic students, resulting in an additional $50.2 million in revenue.

NSW universities took $3.2 billion from domestic students but are still running at a loss

Full-time domestic students cost an average of $12,000 each even though they are paying for expensive degrees, a parliamentary report has found.

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Former ANU chancellor Julie Bishop left her position seven months early.

‘Coercive threats’: Julie Bishop’s scathing resignation letter from ANU

“Increasingly contemptuous intervention” by the university regulator in the Australian National University’s affairs forced Julie Bishop to quit as chancellor, she says. 

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Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway in Surry Hills on 17 May.

Norwegian princess studying at Sydney uni returns home on exchange

Ingrid Alexandra has returned to Oslo, as her mother goes on the waitlist for a lung transplant.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Jack Gramenz
Professor Rebekah Brown, Interim Vice-Chancellor, ANU, during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 5 June 2026. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

ANU’s $100 million drama: Effect on staff revealed in fiery Senate hearing

There were nine reported incidents at the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences during the Renew ANU rollout.

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Michael Still has stood aside.

University chancellor stands aside as ICAC inquiry looms

The watchdog is investigating whether Michael Still and others from the University of Wollongong improperly or dishonestly exercised official functions.

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The finances of the Australian National University are also at risk from a policy change that will stop over-enrolment of domestic students, costing the university more than $9 million/year.

‘Manufactured crisis’: Bombshell report reveals flaws in controversial ANU finance plan

One of several long-anticipated investigations into the Australian National University released damning findings on Thursday.

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Western Sydney University campus, Parramatta.

‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers

Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.

  • Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
There will be three weeks of public hearings into the University of Wollongong by the ICAC

ICAC to investigate allegations of corruption at University of Wollongong

The anti-corruption watchdog will look at recruitment, contracts and conflicts of interest at the besieged university.  

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Sydney University has dropped to 100 in the rankings.

‘Undermines the country’s long-term future’: More than half of Australia’s universities dive in global rankings

See how your university is ranked against its global competitors.

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James Schofield, 18, is keen to study nutrition science after his HSC

University entry was the hardest it’s ever been this year. Next year will be worse

Sydney’s year 12 cohort will be affected by a major change to the way in which domestic students’ degrees are funded for 2027.

  • Sally Rawsthorne