Establishing various committees at universities and within private providers is a matter of course in the higher education sector. One such committee – Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (SASH) – has caused significant problems in recent times. SASH was pronounced ...

If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us as a society, it is to be humble. Despite our collective wealth, advanced scientific knowledge and unprecedented technological capacities, we have been struck and wounded globally by a tricky virus. 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 ...

With the lifting of lockdowns and restrictions there is some sense of euphoria emerging, though many in our universities will be reaching year’s end with, in many cases, relief and exhaustion. There is a great opportunity for leaders to start ...

The succession of restriction-easing announcements from our most affected states, and the case-free landscape in others, adds to the sense that this might be the end of lockdowns. Talk in universities is of fuller returns to campus, and returning international ...

Pre-pandemic, there was already widespread acknowledgement that the traditional higher education business model was seriously outdated. 2020 represented a tipping point as all Australian universities were forced to shift to either fully remote learning or hybrid learning, a trend that ...

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 ...

Sandra Harding, as Australia's current longest serving VC of a single Australian university at JCU in Townsville, joins the HEDx team. She reflects on how the sector's leaders and staff are feeling and of the culture change that is needed for ...

As competition to attract the attention of prospective students intensifies, the higher education sector finds itself grappling with the question: Should every academic be required to publish research? The academic world is a major source of discovery and new ideas. ...

‘Invitations’ from Two Regimes of 1975 and 2021 The new Taliban regime (‘Taliban II’) of Afghanistan has supposedly announced that they do not intend to take revenge against their former adversaries. A news item stated that they even invited those ...