After suffering widespread disruption during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, Australian universities are now coming to terms with what the future might hold for tertiary education. While many international students have been unable to return, lectures and tutorials are cranking ...
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New markets, more online learning: Tudge’s strategy for the international education sector
Federal education minister Alan Tudge used a speech given today at RMIT to urge a rethink of Australia’s international education strategy and call on universities to develop more online courses to attract international students from untapped markets. Tudge’s speech discussed ...
More »Uni students to run ‘virus-like’ app to help study spread
University of Auckland staff and students will be 'infected' with virtual tokens to help study the way COVID-19 spreads through communities. The study will see the University of Queensland-led “virus spreading” Safe Blues app uploaded to between the phones of ...
More »HEDx podcast – ‘Must do better’ means ‘must do different’ – Episode 24
CampusReview · HEDx podcast - 'Must do better' means 'must do different' - Episode 24 In this week's HEDx episode, Karl and Martin are joined by their first international guest: Professor Giselle Byrnes. Giselle is the Provost with responsibilities across research, commercialisation and ...
More »UA review suggests changes to leadership, advocacy
Universities Australia (UA) might look a little different in the coming months, as the peak picks through a review into whether it is fit for purpose in 2021. Among the recommendations from the PhllipsKPA review, which UA’s board commissioned late last year, was that ...
More »University of Melbourne analyst predicts potential change in rankings obsession
For several years now Australia’s universities have achieved remarkable outcomes in some of the world’s most respected rankings, with many institutions entering the world’s top 100. And with its relatively small population of some 25 million, it’s often said that ...
More »If a real estate company can create an innovation culture, imagine what a university can do? Opinion
Organisational culture is often described as what it feels like to work somewhere, or “how we do things around here”. What it has felt like to work at universities, and how things are done there, arise from the historical practices ...
More »Spinoza’s philosophical determinism: a brief comparative glimpse
February 21 2021 (to use the historic present tense) is the 344th anniversary of the death of philosopher Baruch Spinoza (24 November 1632–21 February 1677). This article will comment on only a paragraph in one of Spinoza's letters. Stretching a ...
More »Online proctoring – the smart future of assessment
Higher education providers around the globe are re-examining the way they conduct student assessments. Smart universities are looking to online proctoring as part of their efforts to futureproof their programs. Both the impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions and ...
More »New report details what is and isn’t working in remote Indigenous schools
A new Centre for Independent Studies report based on the Western Australian Government’s Kimberley Schools Project focuses on the challenges educators face in teaching Indigenous students in remote areas, and the strategies teachers and school leaders can implement to raise ...
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