The current period is one of many dilemmas for all universities. They are celebrating newly busy campuses again without knowing how long students and staff will stick to them. They all missed providing face to face social interactions, which are ...

Professor Colin Stirling, vice chancellor of Flinders University in Adelaide, outlines the positioning of Flinders to Be Fearless in its focus on combining world-class research with student success through new physical infrastructure. In this podcast he responds to the renewed prospect of SA university ...

Today, a university’s engagement is a kaleidoscope. It extends far and wide and reaches into schools, colleges, industries, commerce, research and development and employment of almost every kind. Universities are ubiquitous throughout communities in every land. The sheer and simple ...

Community Colleges Australia (CCA) is proposing a national outreach program to re-engage disadvantaged and vulnerable learners who have left training because of COVID-19 concerns. Adult and community education (ACE) providers over-perform in reaching disadvantaged groups, but have experienced a significant drop ...

Vice Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AO of the University of Queensland outlines how a refresh of a Group of Eight university strategy in the depths of the pandemic was energised and inspired by the awarding of the Olympic Games to ...

As we reflect on the state of the world on another International Women’s Day, we will soon be hearing the latest update on the size of the gender gap index. The World Economic Forum index is reported on at the ...

As Australian universities prepare their submissions for the 2023 round of Excellence in Research Australia (ERA), the national research evaluation framework, it is a good moment to reflect and review this thing we call ‘research’. Indeed the ERA exercise, which ...

The recently released 2022 Times Higher Education Young Institution Rankings shows some interesting results. This ranking captures those institutions under the age of 50 years. Globally, there are 539 young institutions ranked in 2022 compared to 475 in 2021. This ...

In 2019, a national survey of provosts and vice-chancellors found that 83 per cent of universities planned to increase their online programs and offerings. Even though online learning was on the radar of most universities, no one could have predicted ...

Having a new strategy coming into 2020, based on the values of its people, would have served a university community well. We all needed a 'true north' to navigate the turbulence of a pandemic. Having an unclear strategy, and poor ...