Almost everything that has saved the world from the pandemic has been the product of a university – from vaccines through to providing our communities with competent health professionals.

The peak body for the independent tertiary education sector has voiced disappointment with Labor’s $1.2 million skills and higher education package, labelling it TAFE-centric and saying it provides students with little choice over where they choose to study.  The federal opposition’s ...

It’s natural for educators to be cautious when it comes to using artificial intelligence (AI) in practice, particularly given the fact they are taught to be critical and evidence-driven. But while that may be the case, James Thorley, vice-president for ...

This episode sees a student join us in orientation week, and then again in week 12 of her first semester. She shares her expectations coming into the course and how these are impacted by her understanding of brand and reputation. ...

Facebook’s recent rebrand to Meta is a pretty clear signal that the Metaverse will soon be a serious business proposition. And with its imminent expansion comes opportunities limited only by our imagination. But what is the Metaverse? Put simply, the ...

Despite the further uncertainty arising this week from the latest Omicron variant, there is still some prospect of domestic and international students returning to Australian campuses in 2022, allowing us, to some extent, to catch up with other parts of ...

A group of teacher education experts have questioned a Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) paper that argues that beginning teachers are not being trained in evidence-based teaching practices for mathematics. Dr Dung Tran, Associate Professor Michael Cavanagh and Professor Rebecca ...

Anthony Forster of Essex University in the UK joins the podcast as our first international VC. He describes the values that drive how his university seeks to differentiate and what made it UK University of the Year in 2018. He outlines the quite ...

A university of enterprise actively seeks to give voice to, and engage, all stakeholders. Its leadership team visibly and actively seeks to incorporate the views of its customers in plans for the future – and are not afraid of the ...

VC David Lloyd of the University of South Australia shares insights from running the first staff jam across his whole university aimed at bringing staff engagement into its strategy; and repeating it again 4 years later. He describes how one unforeseen ...