More Australian universities must drastically review their current revenue streams if they are to remain viable in a highly disrupted market, according to a leading venture capital specialist. Stoic Venture Capital partner Dr Geoff Waring warned of an “over-reliance on ...
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On the move | September
VILLE HARVARD-BOUND University of Wollongong Senior Professor Simon Ville will take up the Australian Studies Chair at Harvard University for the 2022–23 academic year. Ville said he was thrilled to learn he would take up the Chair, which has previously ...
More »Victoria submits plan to bring back international students by year’s end
The Victorian government has become the latest to submit formal plans to get international students back into Australian institutions. Overseas students will start coming to Victoria by the end of this year under the 'Victorian Government’s Student Arrivals Plan', which ...
More »Masters degrees soar as pandemic forces businesses to pivot to data science and logistics management
Lockdowns associated with the pandemic and a move away from traditional in-store sales to online purchases has seen demand for RMIT Online's masters programs jump significantly, particularly in the fields of logistics and data science. With the explosion of “big ...
More »Brittany Higgins to take ANU role
Brittany Higgins has taken up a new role to further her work advocating for victims of sexual assault and harassment and for gender equality. The former political staffer has been appointed as the first visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s ...
More »Findings from the QILT 2021 graduate outcomes report
The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) survey program, including the 2021 Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS), has just been released, highlighting the ongoing effect the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Australian labour market as well as sharp differences ...
More »The higher education experience is changing for good: opinion
Steve Jobs once said: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.” Looking back, 2020/21 was a time of dramatic shift in universities. International student income had propelled research growth, raising our performance in ...
More »Student engagement in the move to online and hybrid learning – opinion
It would be an understatement to say approaches to learning, and the needs of learners, have changed during the pandemic. Before COVID-19, there had already been a move towards improving the engagement of learners to match expectations within the digital landscape. ...
More »Global Innovation Index 2021: Strong performance in a number of countries
The recently released Global Innovation Index 2021 covering 132 countries highlights that innovation and research continue to grow in spite of COVID-19. In previous times of turbulence innovation has taken a back seat, but this is not the case with ...
More »From disaster to distinction: one Indigenous woman’s education journey
Carmel Debel can remember the time her mother tried to enrol her and her brothers in the local primary school. It was back in 1990, when she was seven, and when the administration staff and principal saw her mum standing ...
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