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 ...
More »Keeping it local: $20m plan to bring a university to the outback town of Mount Isa
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 ...
More »Vocational students dropping out of studies in 2020 blamed on COVID, new report
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 ...
More »HEDx Podcast – Great Expectations of Leaders – Episode 34
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. ...
More »New EY report predicts ‘the death of the campus’ and a sector that must adapt quickly
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 ...
More »Why managing cyber security internally is straining education institutions’ resources and exposing them to cyber risks
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 ...
More »The University of Melbourne leads the pack in ShanghaiRankings’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2021
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 ...
More »UQ researchers discover a ‘dragon-like’ creature that once commanded Queensland’s outback skies
A team of University of Queensland researchers have analysed a fossil of a dragon-like reptile that soared above the inland sea that covered much of outback Queensland around 100 million years ago. Known as a pterosaur, it was Australia’s largest ...
More »Six years of the LANTITE: Monash expert interrogates its assumptions and suitability as a teaching gatekeeper
Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...
More »Will we see compulsory vaccination in Australian higher education? Opinion
Is compulsory vaccination coming to Australian post-secondary education – colleges, universities and the large (4.2 million students) vocational education and training sector? Yes, in some circumstances, given that it’s already here. Sadly, it looks like we in Australia (and certainly ...
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