Chris Hill. Picture: Supplied/HEDx This week Martin Betts talks to Chris Hill, chief strategy officer and head of Asia Pacific at Cintana, an education consultant that partners with Arizona State University. Mr Hill shares his experience of pioneering new models ...

The former vice-chancellor of RMIT University in Melbourne and The Open University in the United Kingdom, Martin Bean, says all university leaders should be embracing the 'disruption' caused by the Universities Accord, artificial intelligence, changes to international student policy, and ...

Huge gender disparities in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers are the focus of many of this Friday's International Women's Day celebrations. Only 15 per cent of STEM jobs are held by women, and just 23 per cent of senior ...

A senior University of Sydney professor who was sacked last Friday has vowed to fight back and says he will set up an academic defence union to defend whistleblowers. Manuel Graeber, a neuropathologist with a highly regarded research record who ...

The University of Newcastle has appointed a new Chancellor to succeed the institution’s current Chancellor, who will retire at the end of the year. The Honourable Patricia Forsythe AM will take over the position from Chancellor Mr Paul Jeans upon ...

When the pandemic first struck in 2020, QUT Professor Lidia Morawska knew air transmission was a major factor in the spread of Covid-19, but the World Health Organisation refused to hear her warnings. "What the WHO was doing was spreading misinformation," ...

Educators and artificial intelligence specialists face eight grand challenges in dealing with the impact of AI on education, according to University of Sydney computer science professor Judy Kay, who heads the Human Centred Technology Research Cluster in the engineering and ...

Victoria University has warned its staff that all parts of the institution will come under scrutiny in an effort to return its results to surplus after lower student numbers, across both its higher education and TAFE arms, cut its revenue ...

One of Perth's top public universities has appointed a female chancellor for the first time in its nearly 50-year history. Former director general of WA department of planning and public sector leader, Gail McGowan, will assume the position as Chancellor ...

Dr Poh Wah Hillock likes to ask her students a lot of questions in class, even if they might find it a little irritating.  “After so many years of teaching I still have to think about my lessons and refine ...