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COVID-19

COVID-19

Links to all the IRU’s COVID-19-related news and updates will be added to this page.

IRU COVID-19 media releases

  • IRU welcomes Commonwealth approval of international student return plans 24 Jun 2021
  • Research capacity will be permanently damaged without short-term gap funding 27 Jul 2020
  • Government support for international students: IRU response  20 Jul 2020
  • Victorian Government university investment fund is good news – now other states should follow 19 May 2020
  • 20 ways IRU members are supporting the battle against COVID-19 14 May 2020
  • Don’t let research be another victim of COVID 6 May 2020
  • Year 12 outcomes and university selection under COVID 5 May 2020
  • New JobKeeper changes “the final twist of the knife” for universities 4 May 2020
  • Guaranteed student revenue an important first step for the university sector 12 Apr 2020
  • IRU members pledge hardship support for students – Government now needs to do its bit 6 Apr 2020
  • Student Coronavirus payments a good outcome 24 Mar 2020

IRU COVID-19 policy statements

  • Don’t let university research be another victim of COVID, 6 May 2020
  • Year 12 outcomes and university selection under COVID, 1 May 2020

IRU in the news on COVID-19

  • Borrow UK strategy to mind the research gap, Canberra urged Times Higher Education, 26 Jul 2020
  • Innovative Research Universities outlines 20 ways it’s battling COVID-19, but more funding is needed, Campus Review, 18 May 2020
  • Risks to research funding and jobs post-COVID (IRU Executive Director Conor King interviewed as part of segment – begins 43:30 in), SBS World News, 13 Dec 19
  • This year’s ATAR could be even less predictive of student success than usual (opinion piece by IRU’s Conor King), Times Higher Education, 11 May 2020
  • Tenuous Australian research funding ‘undercut by pandemic’, Times Higher Education, 11 May 2020
  • Tens of thousands of university research jobs at risk from funding blow, Sydney Morning Herald / The Age, 7 May 2020
  • Australian universities angry at ‘final twist of the knife’ excluding them from jobkeeper, Guardian Australia, 4 May 2020
  • Australian government moves again to exclude universities from bailout, Times Higher Education, 3 May 2020
  • Higher education relief package: the sector reacts, Campus Review, 14 Apr 2020
  • Coronavirus: relief package won’t save jobs, unis claim, The Australian, 13 Apr 2020
  • Response to university COVID funding package (IRU Executive Director Conor King interviewed for segment – begins 9:00 in), ABC Radio National World Today program, 13 Apr 2020
  • Government funding guarantee not enough to plug ‘big hole’ in university budgets, Sydney Morning Herald / The Age, 12 Apr 2020
  • Universities help COVID-19 castaways as education minister says there’ll be no emergency funding, Campus Review, 8 Apr 2020
  • Australian academic, research sectors protest bailout rules, Times Higher Education, 6 Apr 2020
  • Australian ministers urged not to bill universities for virus dropouts, Times Higher Education, 31 Mar 2020
  • Australian universities mull eligibility for new economic lifesaver, Times Higher Education, 31 Mar 2020
  • What is the coronavirus supplement and who is eligible?, SBS News (online), 25 Mar 2020
  • Universities cheer as students get $550 virus relief, The Australian, 24 Mar 2020
  • Australia’s number caps ‘could be scrapped’ amid virus crisis, Times Higher Education, 24 Mar 2020
  • Think ahead, Indian agents urge Australia, Times Higher Education, 24 Mar 2020
  • Students embraced in coronavirus welfare windfall, Times Higher Education, 23 Mar 2020
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