IRU. Australia’s Innovative Universities in Asia. 2013. Pages: 23.

This new report by Innovative Research Universities (IRU), a network of seven world class research intensive universities, identifies Australia’s engagement with Asia in academia and research and qualifies it as ‘crucial to Australia’s future prosperity’. It addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the relations with Asia since the 1960s, alumni networks, Asian focused degrees and languages, Australian degrees in Asia, teaching partnerships, collaborative research etc. In the near future, IRU aims at increasing the number of students studying and working in Asia, creating an IRU Asian Languages Network and strengthening research links.