In this episode, Professor Jennifer Whyte of the University of Sydney joins the HEDx podcast to reflect on culture, leadership and partnerships as an Australian Head of School in a Go8 compared to her experiences at Imperial College in the ...

Experts from the University of Sydney claim Covid-19 cases could surge to 40,000 a day across Australia if state governments throw all restrictions out the window when 80 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated. Although NSW appears to be past ...

VILLE HARVARD-BOUND University of Wollongong Senior Professor Simon Ville will take up the Australian Studies Chair at Harvard University for the 2022–23 academic year. Ville said he was thrilled to learn he would take up the Chair, which has previously ...

The Victorian government has become the latest to submit formal plans to get international students back into Australian institutions. Overseas students will start coming to Victoria by the end of this year under the 'Victorian Government’s Student Arrivals Plan', which ...

Brittany Higgins has taken up a new role to further her work advocating for victims of sexual assault and harassment and for gender equality. The former political staffer has been appointed as the first visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s ...

The recently released Global Innovation Index 2021 covering 132 countries highlights that innovation and research continue to grow in spite of COVID-19. In previous times of turbulence innovation has taken a back seat, but this is not the case with ...

Researchers say that if you work sitting down all day you should get up and move every half hour, or run the risk of serious ill health. A new study from an international consortium of scientists, including academics from the ...

Denice Pitt, CEO of online learning pioneers OES, joins HEDx to reflect on the 10-year journey of her company supporting universities in bringing high quality online learning to non-traditional students.  She outlines the culture and technology combination, and novel approach to ...

Monash has become the latest university to own up to wage theft, announcing that they owe casual academics millions in underpayments. After an internal investigation Monash VC Margaret Gardner has admitted that between January 1 2014 and 30 June 2020 ...

One time Democratic presidential candidate and former US first Lady Hillary Clinton will finally be inaugurated as the chancellor of Queen's University Belfast (QUB), as reported by the BBC. Clinton, a former senator for New York and Obama-era Secretary of ...