Patricia Davidson, the new VC of Wollongong University in NSW, joins HEDx to outline the compassionate approach to leadership she has brought to her first 90 days. She outlines the challenges she perceives for the sector, its staff and its students. ...
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A number of serious predictions about Australia’s higher education sector have just been released in a report by EY, formerly Ernst and Young. The report – titled The peak of higher education – a new world for the university of ...
More »Why managing cyber security internally is straining education institutions’ resources and exposing them to cyber risks
Insights from our 2021 Tertiary Education Digital Transformation Index found that 74 per cent of the institutions surveyed rely on internal resources to manage security, which places a huge strain on their internal IT resources. Since the pandemic, tertiary education institutions throughout ...
More »Six years of the LANTITE: Monash expert interrogates its assumptions and suitability as a teaching gatekeeper
Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...
More »Will we see compulsory vaccination in Australian higher education? Opinion
Is compulsory vaccination coming to Australian post-secondary education – colleges, universities and the large (4.2 million students) vocational education and training sector? Yes, in some circumstances, given that it’s already here. Sadly, it looks like we in Australia (and certainly ...
More »Turnbull, Rudd and the ‘problem’ with the China-Australia relationship
It’s unequivocally our most important yet problematic relationship we share with another country. And on Wednesday, former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull recommended the coalition government dampen the domestic political rhetoric against China that has been building ...
More »Sydney university VC wants less ‘bickering’ and more collaborating with UNSW Sydney after decades-long rivalry
Sydney’s two highest-ranked universities will put aside their competitiveness and “bickering” to build more of a collaborative relationship, new vice-chancellor and president of Sydney university Professor Mark Scott said. For decades now, the University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney have ...
More »Getting to innovation as usual – opinion
When times are tough, one of the best coping strategies is to leave the past behind, move out of your current predicament, and focus on the horizon ahead. All of us are trying to look ahead right now. Our ability ...
More »Offshore, onshore or just not sure? The future of hybrid teaching – opinion
As the onshore international student market continues to be suppressed by the ever-evolving manifestations of COVID-19, the heady lure of establishing offshore operations in potential growth markets in Asia is inevitably the fare of boardroom discussions in many universities and ...
More »HEDx Podcast – Looking Ahead at Newcastle – Episode 33
This episode has University of Newcastle VC Alex Zelinsky join HEDx to outline its five-year strategy called Looking Ahead. A leader with CSIRO and Defence Scientist backgrounds, Zelinsky dismisses the prospect of research commercialisation replacing lost international student revenue. He instead outlines ...
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