The Honorary Fellowship Award handed down by Australia's largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing, went to Professor Patricia M. Davidson this year, recognising her distinguished career as a nurse, researcher and educator.  Having co-authored over 500 journal articles ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Carolyn Evans, VC of Griffith University and Chair of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group, reflects on how having a new strategy coming into 2020 served her well in providing a true north to navigate the challenges of the disruptions ...

Harlene Hayne has a unique perspective on the effects of the pandemic on higher education. After guiding The University of Otago through most of the challenges of the past two years, she crossed the ditch and took up the reins ...

As we look to a post-COVID era and a recalibration of teaching and learning to our new world order, we have to consider the way in which we describe our educational activities and also how we adjust expectations and learning norms.

Higher education providers have been forced to think differently about course delivery and whether a full return to face-to-face learning will be achieved. How that paradigm shift is maintained longer term will determine the fate of our higher education institutions. ...

Pascale Quester of Swinburne University of Technology joined the HEDx podcast in partnership with Campus Review at the end of her first 100 days as Vice Chancellor. She reflected on how all universities have the chance to leave the peloton ...

I made the phone call to Belinda Robinson, acting UC vice-chancellor, from the airport in Iceland. “I’m thinking we might come early. What do you think?” The pause and the audible sigh of relief that followed told me all I ...

The global pandemic we speak of as coronavirus has been declared a "force majeure’’. It overrides previous considerations and requires the cancellation of what we know and have accepted as ‘normal’. It comes in the footsteps of Australian environmental catastrophes ...