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 ...

In May, Campus Review spoke with Alwyn Louw as he commenced his new role as vice-chancellor of Torrens University. Starting any new job can be challenging at the best of times, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, new Torrens University ...

Options to address the massive COVID-19 related hits to university revenue are being considered and implemented. Many universities had large capital projects underway and infrastructure plans in development when the virus hit. One option for budget management that has appeared ...

There still exists an idealised conception of the university. It’s what makes international rankings plausible, because everybody thinks they know what a university should be and therefore can compare them. In that conception, research is well supported and academics are ...

I was delighted recently when, through Commonwealth Minister Dan Tehan, I was asked by COAG’s Education Council to chair a review of how to improve senior secondary pathways into training, future education and work. So, I know, were the other ...