Now feels like a time of flux and re-examination of purpose in global universities. In the US, national political moves towards university loan forgiveness is occurring as fees rise, enrolments fall and the value of higher education is questioned. And adding ...

Something special, even unique, took place this year – an Australian university was recognised by a global award scheme for business nous. That EY Entrepreneur of the Year Australia 2021 judges would choose the CEO of an Australian university was ...

Australian Entrepreneur of the Year for 2022 and CEO of Torrens University Australia, Linda Brown, joins the HEDx podcast to share her thoughts on the opportunities for private universities in Australia and globally to utilise EdTech and partner with connected employers. She advocates ...

In this edition of the HEDx podcast co-CEO and co-founder of global data and research company HolonIQ, Maria Spies, shares an update to their report outlining five scenarios for the future of higher education by 2030. She discusses the priorities for the ...

Struggling students who left school at the bottom of the class are being accepted into prestigious university degrees including engineering, architecture and psychology. Universities made offers to students with Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) scores below 50 – the bottom ...

In the aftermath of the overruling of the landmark Roe v Wade abortion ruling by the United States Supreme Court there has been anger, dismay, frustration and protests in the United States and many other countries, including Australia. ‘The shape ...

Betty Vandenbosch, chief content officer at Coursera, joins the HEDx podcast to outline her vision of how the landscape of global higher education will have changed by 2030, and what Coursera and global universities can best do to prepare for ...

May 24 2022 was the 479th anniversary of the death of astronomer and scientist Nicolas Copernicus (19 February 1473-24 May 1543) the modern espouser and pioneer of the heliocentric theory. An apocryphal or probably true story is that as the ...

On 24 June 2022 a majority of the members of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women Health Organization overruled a 49-year-old ruling Roe v Wade, also decided by a different bench of the ...

The recently released QS World Rankings 2023 leaves much to consider. At the global level, there is increased competition and engagement in the rankings. It includes 1422 universities in 2023 compared to 1300 in the 2022 QS rankings. By broad ...