The pandemic has driven change at an unprecedented pace and shown that we learn and adapt quickly to adversity. Now is the time to build on these insights and reimagine the university of the very-near future.

A global crisis can either paralyse a marketing team or boost it to thrive. This applies to higher education as much as it does to every other sector. The correct approach during economic uncertainty is to increase — not decrease — your marketing ...

I was in the UK visiting a number of university clients, as part of TechnologyOne’s Global Mobility Programme, when the coronavirus started to take hold, but soon had to head back to our headquarters in Brisbane, Australia, when the severity ...

Gentle reader: During the past 24 hours while you slept you dreamt. You may not recall your dream but you did dream, or so say contemporary neurologists and scientists. For millennia there have been many treatises, tracts or plain ‘hocus ...

The term ‘hybrid’ has popped up across the higher education sector to denote a part return to campus, by both domestic and international students. Yet its application and perceived longevity are not as cut and dried as many would believe. ...

The end of one annual university cycle typically sees numbers become clearer about what the next will bring. Grants are awarded, promotions decided, targets set in performance plans, after details are confirmed of outcomes in the year just ended.  Other ...

The active COVID-19 situation combined with domestic and international border restrictions put the notion of a mass return of international students to public and private tertiary providers in considerable doubt and uncertainty. Commentary on the issue of international students has ...

In this fourth and final part of the series on industry’s view of training product design and development, we discuss how the development process can be improved without throwing the whole system out yet again. Importantly, and despite the current ...

The higher education sector was significantly hit by the pandemic. International borders closed down and international student enrolment dropped. Universities’ revenues fell short of budgets and they went into contraction. COVID restrictions and lockdowns also meant that business as usual ...

Pre-pandemic, higher education was Australia’s third-largest export category, responsible for contributing $37.6 billion to the economy in the 2019 financial year, according to Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan. What a difference a year makes. The higher education sector has been ...