Virtually overnight, IT teams across the higher education sector leapt into action to transition lesson delivery from face-to-face to online in the face of COVID-19 restrictions.  But the feat of making the impossible possible unearthed some valuable learnings. It was ...

How best to determine whether students understand the content they’ve been taught and can apply it when the need arises, is the million dollar question for administrators and educators around the country. Certainly, there are plenty of assessment formats at ...

Many institutions responded quickly to the new education environment, pivoting to digital tools for teaching, learning delivery and student support. But the change has been uneven, with many institutions still in the early stages of transformation. Peter Nikoletatos, Industry General ...

CampusReview · HEDx Podcast - Partner or Perish - Episode 32 Guy Littlefair, PVC International at Auckland University of Technology, joins HEDx to share insights into transitions between university and business environments and the importance of partnerships. He gives great pointers ...

There has been much to think about in universities in the last 18 months, adjusting to short-term emergencies such as campus closures, shifts online and revenue hits.   There has also been cause to reconsider how universities are set for the ...

There appears to be some confusion in the sector around the meaning and application of ‘hybrid’ delivery to higher education students.  The view is that teaching students online while also providing a face-to-face (F2F) classroom option requires two sets of ...

Go8 member The University of Adelaide may have to cut roughly 130 jobs to address the loss of international student revenue as the global pandemic and lockdowns continue.  Adelaide university’s vice-chancellor Peter Hoj invited staff to a forum yesterday to ...

A reluctance is growing among international academics to travel to China for research-related work and academic conferences, even if COVID-19 border restrictions become more flexible.  One academic who is being detained in China is Yuan Keqin, both a Chinese national ...

CampusReview · HEDx podcast - University Culture in the Real World - Episode 31 This episode has Margaret Sheil joining the HEDx team to outline where QUT is up to in refreshing its blueprint strategy. As the university with the ...

Improving international ranking status has, during the last two decades, become the justification for numerous disruptive ‘strategic’ business and marketing behaviours across our tertiary sector.  To add to those 17,300 jobs ‘shed’ due to COVID-19 (Universities Australia, Feb 3rd, 2021) ...