More than 1000 international students have quietly been allowed to “jump the queue” and enter Australia during COVID-19, while 40,000 Aussies remain stranded overseas. Figures obtained by NCA NewsWire reveal the Australian Border Force Commissioner has granted 1050 foreign nationals ...
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Ridd gets green light to fight dismissal case in High Court
The High Court will hear former James Cook University professor Peter Ridd's unfair dismissal case. In a message sent yesterday to contributors to his crowdsourced legal fund, Ridd said he was “naturally relieved and happy that the highest court in ...
More »How close is the third horizon of innovation in higher ed? opinion
Now is the time when all of our universities have more opportunity and need to explore, and counter, disruptive transformations to the higher education business model than ever before.
More »Discoverer of ‘glass cliff’ phenomenon becomes first director of Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at ANU
The Australian National University has appointed Professor Michelle Ryan as the inaugural director of the university’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL). The institute was founded and chaired by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and is the first “sister” ...
More »TEQSA Review: IHEA cites concerns about ‘narrow definition’ of scholarship
Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA) has raised a number of concerns in its submission to the TEQSA Review – Making and Assessing Claims of Scholarship and Scholarly Activity (Oct 2020), including how narrowing definitions of scholarship will affect the diversity ...
More »Science chief clears up Oxford-AstraZeneca confusion
One of Australia’s top scientists has tackled “significant misunderstandings” about the effectiveness of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. Professor John Shine is urging people to be aware of misinformation on social media and instead listen to advice from health departments, chief medical ...
More »‘Freudianism and its discontents’ vs efforts inspired by love in overcoming the COVID-19 scourge
Gentle reader: During the past 24 hours while you slept you dreamt. You may not recall your dream but you did dream, or so say contemporary neurologists and scientists. For millennia there have been many treatises, tracts or plain ‘hocus ...
More »Double bubble, toil and trouble: the international student cauldron
The active COVID-19 situation combined with domestic and international border restrictions put the notion of a mass return of international students to public and private tertiary providers in considerable doubt and uncertainty. Commentary on the issue of international students has ...
More »The Industry View, part 4: improving training product development
In this fourth and final part of the series on industry’s view of training product design and development, we discuss how the development process can be improved without throwing the whole system out yet again. Importantly, and despite the current ...
More »’21st Century fit’ universities: HEDx Podcast, Episode 11
CampusReview · 21st Century Fit Universities: HEDx Podcast, Episode 11 Leading commentator on the changing perspectives of young Australians and the future of work Jan Owen AM joins Martin and Karl to reflect on the acceleration that has occurred in ...
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