The old Royal Adelaide Hospital site (bottom right) is understood to be the preferred location for the laboratory, with "hubs" also to be established at the universities' campuses.

Local

SA universities team up for French subs company research lab

South Australia’s three major universities will collaborate with France’s central scientific agency and the company chosen to design Australia’s $52 billion Future Submarines to establish a joint defence research laboratory in Adelaide, InDaily can reveal.

News

Uni merger would have helped make SA a "strong prospect", says former VC

The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Australia says the state is unlikely to boast a world-class tertiary institution without the greater scale that a merger would have provided.

Notes on Adelaide

Come back Ian Hunter, all is forgiven | Uni masterclass in opacity

In today’s Notes on Adelaide, recent revelations show that South Australia’s favourite political punching bag of recent years may have been too harshly treated, and the universities go dark after their merger plans fall apart.

News

University merger dead after UniSA abandons talks with Adelaide

UPDATED | The proposal to create a super-university in SA has been killed off after the University of South Australia decided it was not in its interests to merge with the University of Adelaide.

Opinion

Zero evidence that an Adelaide "super university" will improve outcomes

A proposal to merge UniSA and the University of Adelaide is based on flimsy evidence, writes Richard Blandy, who argues that experience across the world shows that size is not connected to greatness in higher education and research.