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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 ...

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.  ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say that if you work sitting down all day you should get up and move every half hour, or run the risk of serious ill health. A new study from an international consortium of scientists, including academics from the ...

Denice Pitt, CEO of online learning pioneers OES, joins HEDx to reflect on the 10-year journey of her company supporting universities in bringing high quality online learning to non-traditional students.  She outlines the culture and technology combination, and novel approach to ...

June 2021 was the 41st anniversary to the month of the publication of  the article ‘Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction’ (main authors Louis and Walter Alvarez) in the Journal Science (1980) 208 (448) pages 1095-1108 which, in effect, proposed ...

A Monash University expert in discrimination law and tort law has said that so-called “no jab, no entry” policies do not constitute discrimination, despite some claiming the contrary. Liam Elphick, an associate lecturer in the faculty of law at Monash, ...

The involuntary shift to online learning has also highlighted and facilitated a range of other alternate mode delivery mechanisms for international students. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic international education (onshore in Australia) was in face to face mode with strict ...

Global higher education experts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, what the company calls “their annual deep dive into the relationship between university choice and graduate employment outcomes".  QS states that the rankings “offer a ...