University staff experiencing sexual violence and harassment on campus are dissatisfied with the university’s response when they make formal complaints, according to a recent national survey. In late 2022, Monash University conducted a national survey of 1,412 victim-survivors of workplace ...
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Vice-chancellors critique the sector
A small cadre of retired and current vice-chancellors have recently come forward to critique the current Australian tertiary education system and the behaviours of its leadership. Emeritus Professor Greg Whately Australian National University Vice-Chancellor and chief Brian Schmidt AC recently ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Lifelong learning needs of innovative employers and workforces – Episode 84
Caitlin Gleeson, Global Leadership Development Lead at Canva joins Dr Nora Koslowski of MBS as co-host to discuss the changes in lifelong learning for leaders and graduates entering innovative workplaces like Canva. Koslowski and Gleeson discuss how vertical capabilities can augment ...
More »AI best practice, the Accord, and HED
Since last November, the two focuses of higher education practitioners, leaders and commentators, have been the sector review of the interim report of the Australian Universities Accord, and the potential effects of artificial intelligence (AI). Both have also been a ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Making individual, institutional and sectoral responses to AI developments – Episode 83
University College London's Professor Rose Luckin joins L.E.K. Consulting's Dr Ant Bagshaw as co-host in this episode of the HEDx podcast. Professor Luckin and Dr Bagshaw dissect responses to the recent breakthroughs in AI technologies, discussing global best practices, vulnerability ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How will AI and technology change what universities need to do? Episode 82
Dr Nora Koslowski, chief learning innovation officer at Melbourne Business School (MBS), joins the HEDx podcast to share her insights. She discusses how emerging AI technologies, coupled with the changing world of work and future skills-needs of employers, are providing ...
More »Universities Accord must lead to ongoing innovation
The Australian Universities Accord interim report was launched to widespread acclaim. There has been broad engagement with its overall direction from a national audience of current players within the sector. This group is feeling appropriately rejuvenated after having had a ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How will technology impact the vision in the Universities Accord? – Episode 81
Manuela Franceschini of Adobe joins a discussion involving Theo Farrell of University of Wollongong, Tiffany Wright and Rachel Bondi of Microsoft, Matt Kuperholz of Deakin and Sherman Young of RMIT about the missing focus on technology and generative AI in ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Building a globally intentional university – Episode 80
Teri Cannon as Founding President of Minerva University reflects on the journey to build a different type of university that is intentionally global. After 10 years of helping students from 130 countries learn in a rotation through 7 global locations ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Sector leaders react to the Accord interim report – Episode 79
University Vice-Chancellors Bruce Dowton, Andrew Parfitt and Alex Zelinsky and Deputy VCs Clare Pollock, Theo Farrell, Merlin Crossley and Michelle Bellingan, as panellists at the HEDx conference in Sydney share "pithy" reactions to the interim report the day after its ...
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