Navitas Ventures - the innovation arm of global higher education provider Navitas - has been pondering digital transformation in higher education. After realising universities, students and edtech venture founders were too, it solicited their views on the matter. "We wanted to ...
More »Putting the ‘e’ for ‘entrepreneur’ in VET
Domestic manufacturing has all but disappeared, the mining boom is long over, and jobs like IT support are increasingly being offshored. Meanwhile, innovation is in, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. So, where does this leave ...
More »NSW TAFEs, universities co-create entrepreneurship school
Sydney got its very own Stanford with the launch of the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship (SSE) on Wednesday. Unlike the prestigious Palo Alto tech-oriented university, however, the SSE will welcome students from all academic backgrounds. In fact, the SSE is ...
More »QUT professor redefines university rankings
“Now do individual academics pay much attention to it? No, not yet. Not least because they don't have to. They're living in sort of an echo chamber, sort of a la la land where as long as they just do ...
More »When scientists met policymakers
They're often perceived as being at odds with each other, but this week, top scientists and bureaucrats happily commingled. In Canberra for Science meets Policymakers, they collaborated on a 10-year plan for our country's scientific and technological future. Dr Charlie Day from ...
More »Australia an innovation dark horse: EU report
If “innovation means prosperity”, as a new European Union innovation report claims, we’re pretty well-off. The European Commission’s European Innovation Scoreboard 2017, released on Tuesday 20 July 2017, ranks Australia third in the world in innovation. It is preceded by ...
More »Two Australian universities bestowed cybersecurity cash
Just glance at the news headlines and you will know that cyber warfare is here, and it's huge. It potentially cost Hillary Clinton the US election, and almost foiled Emmanuel Macron’s French presidential plans. Now, the Australian government is investing ...
More »Go8 singled out for a $200 million boost
Disrupt or die seems to be the latest business mantra, and universities are on board. Specifically, the Group of Eight (Go8) universities have welcomed a landmark $200 million investment by UK-based IP Group, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company. The funds ...
More »Careers experts don’t fear rise of robots
What will a reliable career look like in 2022? According to the Good Education Group’s 2017 Good Careers Guide, it will be in early education, special education, social work, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology. Though 30,000 positions will be ...
More »A closer look at 3 foreign recipes for innovation
Listing countries that rank higher than Australia on the Global Innovation Index – it’s a favourite of those pushing the innovation bandwagon. On this list, Australia is placed 19, though there is constant political rhetoric stating that it could, and ...
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