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To date, a tremendous amount of technological and policy development has been directed toward curbing the use of online “paper mills” or websites where students can purchase essays written for them, but the issue remains problematic and largely unresolved.  In ...

The Independent Tertiary Council Australia (ITECA) has raised concerns after a new report found declines in the number of students enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training (VET) courses in 2020, despite a multi-billion dollar skills investment.  ITECA chief executive Troy ...

One of the biggest motivations for many that work in higher education is observing and supporting its potential to transform lives.  For those first in family to experience higher education, it opens up new opportunities, and futures. It creates loyalty to ...

A study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Australian academics and their respective institutions has just been released, highlighting some concerning findings but also some "silver linings". The study, published in the Higher Education Research and Development journal and ...

It’s a perennial problem facing thousands of school leavers: should I stay or should I go? While many teenagers cannot wait to leave a small town like Mount Isa (population roughly 21,000), jumping into second-hand cars with their friends, giddy ...

Vocational education and training (VET) providers have faced many of the same challenges as Australian universities, with COVID-19 international border closures and ‘stay at home’ orders responsible for plunging student numbers. Data provided by the National Centre for Vocational Education and ...

Patricia Davidson, the new VC of Wollongong University in NSW, joins HEDx to outline the compassionate approach to leadership she has brought to her first 90 days. She outlines the challenges she perceives for the sector, its staff and its students.  ...

A number of serious predictions about Australia’s higher education sector have just been released in a report by EY, formerly Ernst and Young.  The report – titled The peak of higher education – a new world for the university of ...

Insights from our 2021 Tertiary Education Digital Transformation Index found that 74 per cent of the institutions surveyed rely on internal resources to manage security, which places a huge strain on their internal IT resources.  Since the pandemic, tertiary education institutions throughout ...

The University of Melbourne is Australia’s sole top 50 entrant in the latest ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), landing at 33. Other Australian universities to crack the top 100 this year include the University of Queensland (51), UNSW ...