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Reports that Australian academics are alarmed that a free-trade agreement signed with the U.S. could lead to American universities establishing operations in Australia and receiving the same benefits as local institutions. Details of the free-trade agreement; Violation of the agreement; Signatory to the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

The article offers news briefs on higher education. There has been an uncertainty over the future of an online university that was established by the Universitas 21 international consortium following the sale of its U.S. partner Thomas Learning. The University of Sydney in New South Wales has secured a deal to host a U.S. studies center.

The article reports on the acquisition of 50 percent of shares of IDP Education Australia by online employment and training firm Seek Limited. The merger is said to cause an increase in competition between Australian universities and those in the U.S. and Great Britain. Andrew Bassat, joint CEO of Seek, has commented on the partnership.

The article focuses on the impact of anti-terrorism laws on academic freedom. The anti-terrorism law enacted in the U.S., Great Britain, Canada and Australia have serious effects on higher education. For instance, teachers and students alike are being threatened and sometimes imprisoned under the laws. This laws could likely cause scholarly self-censorship.

Reports that universities in Great Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand that rely on tuition fees paid by Chinese students face a fall in their incomes. Fall in the number of Chinese students prepared to pay full fees to study at overseas universities; State of the export education market in 2004; Impact of efforts made by China to establish more of its own universities; Permission given by the Beijing Ministry for Hong Kong's universities to use the national universities admission system to attract students.

Reports that Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts is willing to bid for large holdings of pine and hardwood plantations in Australia that the New South Wales (NSW) Labor agreement is preparing to put on the market. Book value of the NSW plantations; Harvard's endowment fund.

Reports on the price that students have to pay to study in universities of the U.S. and Australia. Increase in the costs of studies at public and private universities in the U.S.; Amount owed to Australian government with the introduction of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme.

Reports on developments in the education sector as of August 24, 2001. Salaries of newly graduated teachers in Australia; Tax amnesty for parents with school children in the United States; Arab educators' criticism of Israeli minister Limor Livnat's proposal to hold back funding to schools failing to demonstrate loyalty to the state.

Presents news briefs on illegal arrivals in Australia and assault in Canada and the U.S. as of August 3, 2001. Number of children of asylum-seekers that are being held in detention camps without schooling in Australia; Charge levelled against a student for assaulting one of his teachers with a water balloon in Canada; Sentence passed against a 14-year old Florida boy for shooting his teacher.

Reports that the University of Michigan has withdrawn from the university consortium Universitas 21 due to its opposition to a planned online university project. Consortium's negotiation with Thomson Learning Inc. for the provision of postgraduate courses to students worldwide; Concerns about electronic learning approaches.

Reports on the Australian government's policy allowing students to swap part of their free Austudy grants for twice the amount as a loan beginning 1993. Students' protest due to threatened increases in their share of higher education costs; Recommendations by the National Union of Students.