CampusReview · HEDx Podcast - Time to Translate and Transform - Episode 18 Geraldine Mackenzie, VC of the University of Southern Queensland, joins Karl and Martin from HEDx to reflect on how her strategy (that was nearing completion when COVID hit) has been ...
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CampusReview · Dr Stuart Middleton | The necessity of fun and engagement at university in 2021 In contrast to previous academic years, it’s doubtful many would have described their 2020 university year as ‘fun’. Perhaps ‘challenging’ or even ‘stressful’ would ...
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Demand for arts and humanities courses remains strong in Australia’s two most populous states, despite the fee hikes introduced last year to steer students towards more ‘job-ready’ degrees in nursing, education, science and maths. Despite fee hikes of more than 113 ...
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Right now, public policy and university innovation appear focused on micro-credentials. Micro-credentials bring an ability to deliver smaller collections of rapidly changing and emerging new knowledge to a growing learning community, whose commitment to formal qualifications, as a sole education ...
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From the outset, well-known and respected academic Professor Marcia Devlin draws attention in a recent article to a subject that appears to be languishing in academia. Released this month in Academic Letters, Devlin quickly establishes some disappointing statistics relating to ...
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The Australian National University's vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt delivered his ‘State of the University 2021’ address this week, describing how critical universities are to Australian democracy and four of the institution’s top goals for 2025. Situated in Australia’s capital, Schmidt ...
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CampusReview · HEDx: There's no going back - Episode 17 This HEDx podcast sees Karl and Martin joined by Chris Eigeland, the chief revenue officer of edtech start-up GO1. The episode explores how new entrants are moving at warp speed to disrupt ...
More »Analysis finds ‘predatory’ journals infiltrating scientific literature
A recent analysis has found that the academic database Scopus is hosting more than 300 journals with dubious scientific and editorial practices. The analysis has called these journals “predatory” and found they comprised roughly 160,000 articles published on Scopus over ...
More »The Evolution of the Physical Campus in a new Era of Hybrid Learning and Working
The transition to distance learning and remote teaching has accelerated rapidly in the education sector during the pandemic. With the closures of campuses, universities had to find virtual workarounds for students, not just to deliver curriculum content and learning materials, ...
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Now is the time when all of our universities have more opportunity and need to explore, and counter, disruptive transformations to the higher education business model than ever before.
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