Institutions in all sectors, including higher education, are shaped by, and in the image of their leaders. What leaders bring with them from childhood experiences and family backgrounds often frame their values, ambitions, and priorities, which can in turn shape ...

Vice-Chancellor of Australian National University Professor Brian Schmidt has announced plans to resign at the end of the year. The Nobel laureate and astrophysicist told students and staff he would return to his role as professor of astronomy after eight ...

Mobility, research, teaching, and personal and interpersonal skills have been identified as the top attributes needed to progress in academia, new research shows. A recent study from the University of Sydney drew results from job ads posted across 3000 universities ...

Two Swinburne University astronomers are embarking on a major project that will unlock a flood of information on six million galaxies in the sector of the universe nearest our Milky Way galactic home. Edward Taylor and Michelle Cluver, both associate ...

Professor Paul Le Blanc is the president of Southern New Hampshire University and joins the HEDx podcast for the first episode of 2023.   He outlines a philosophy that's driven his institution and is influencing the sector to be truly distinctive by ...

The nation's employment watchdog has rejected Charles Darwin University's non-union enterprise agreement due to voting irregularities. The university enterprise agreement had been approved in November 2022 with 62 per cent of staff saying 'yes' to a four per cent pay ...

Australian Universities are bracing for the return of tens of thousands of Chinese students to campus after the government announced an online study ban last week. On Sunday, the Chinese government announced an online learning ban for students enrolled in ...

Amazing new AI bots are now able to convincingly write cogent academic essays and assist in penning other student assignment tasks. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has caused consternation in a higher education environment already struggling to sustain its own ...

Australia has signed its first international higher education treaty which recognises students’ education worldwide and improves studying opportunities abroad.  Last week, Education Minister Jason Clare and Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor announced Australia was the 21st country to join the UNESCO ...

A free AI tool has sparked fears over a dramatic spike in student plagiarism, but a technology expert says universities should learn to embrace new technologies. The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 stunned academics with its ability to generate ...