Monthly Archives: July 2008
Agriculture
Belonging to the magic quadrant
SunGard Higher Education, which set up its Australian operations a year ago, currently holds a slice of prime technology real estate – it’s got the top slot in Gartner’s “magic quadrant”. The magic quadrant is a device created by the ...
More »Arts, Social Science & Humanities
In for a penny, in for a pound
It’s not often that the words enterprising and academic go together. But a UK university has so successfully turned the idea of academic enterprise into a wealth-creating, partnership-forming reality, it is redefining community engagement in the process. Academic enterprise is ...
More »Credit where credit’s due
Creating global pathways should not be beyond our capability, says Tony Adams. One of the more intractable issues that have confronted international education, and for that matter domestic education, has been the attitudes of many universities and academics to ...
More »Prospering in the valley of death
Western Australians nursing retirement nest eggs are helping incubate spin-off companies in their most embryonic form, with an industry superannuation fund bankrolling the latest scheme to provide pre-seed funding for university commercialisation projects. The $3 billion Western Australia-based superannuation fund ...
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