Making sense of data can be a survival skill. University administrators have to make accurate budget and planning decisions; they have to meet the expectations of students, researchers and academics; they have investment portfolios to manage; and must cope with ...
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OECD slams Australia’s VET system
An OECD team that visited Australia earlier this year to benchmark Australian VET against international standards has reported – and is highly critical of many aspects of this country’s VET system. While the review team says “Australia has a very ...
More »A business case for corporate responsibility
Corporate social responsibility and ethics are under the spotlight again, and business schools are helping with the re-examination of practices. Jeremy Gilling reports. The corporate social responsibility message has been out there for quite a while, but it may have ...
More »Collaboration: 4700 years in coming
Collaboration between doctors, nurses and allied health professionals is very much on the national agenda, but there’s a long way to go before it’s accepted as the norm. Jeremy Gilling reports. Imhotep, the first physician known today by name, lived ...
More »Many ways to skin the IT cat
Universities have responded to falling IT enrolments in a range of innovative ways, reports Jeremy Gilling. Among those who are cautiously optimistic that Australian universities are starting to witness an upswing in ICT enrolments are Michael Blumenstein and Paul Bailes. ...
More »China’s higher transformation
A new study for the first time reveals the full extent of China’s massive transformation of its higher education sector. Julie Hare reports. China’s ascendance as a higher education superpower and the implications globally are the focus of an important ...
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