Labor's university merger plan would shrink South Australia

By announcing a policy to merge South Australia’s universities, Labor leader Peter Malinauskas has shown he is committed to making the state smaller and more inconsequential, argues Collette Snowden.

Stop treating international students as our ATM

We celebrate the economic benefits of international students but ignore their reality, writes Andrew Hunter, who believes sport can help bridge the cultural divide.

TENSE TIMES: Former Uni SA chancellor Jim McDowell with vice-chancellor David Lloyd, Adelaide vice-chancellor Peter Rathjen and Adelaide chancellor Kevin Scarce.

Leaked email exposes uni merger drama

EXCLUSIVE | An explosive email from the man appointed to run Steven Marshall’s Department of Premier and Cabinet lays bare the tense and terse relations between the universities of Adelaide and South Australia before their merger talks collapsed.

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.

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.

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.