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
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
