Over two decades ago a new breed of private provider began to emerge in the highereducation sector. These were profit-driven, competitive and internationally ambitious organisations aimed at the market segment of potential students most unlikely or unable to attend full-time ...

By now we are all aware of the effect and impact a pandemic can have on society and how disruptive it can be to the economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the business world into turmoil in so many ways. ...

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. ...

With policy, purpose and program in place, organisational leaders and trainers may believe they have mastered their workplace training implementation. However, there is one final step in the training lifecycle to ensure employee development keeps pace with business needs. In ...

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 ...

Declaring that higher education is a commodity and students are customers is no way to win friends in the education sector. But it is a debate worth having – and one that is regularly fuelled by none other than the ...

A small farm on the outskirts of Bacchus Marsh, about halfway between Melbourne and Ballarat, is the birthplace of a self-described 'unlikely entrepreneur'. But it took decades for Alan Manly to get to that point. The managing director of Sydney-based private tertiary ...