CampusReview · HEDx Podcast: Where can technology take us and how can we harness it? - Episode 112 Director of education for SEEK Investments Joshua Nester joins Martin Betts in conversation at the March HEDx conference in Melbourne. As an ...
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A university technology consultant says posting lecture recordings is not digital transformation, and that digital change in unis may be halting at the leadership level, resulting in unsatisfied students and staff. Ernst and Young (EY) Oceania education leader Alison Cairns ...
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Today’s students have clear expectations when it comes to their education, yet many Australian higher education providers are seemingly unable to effectively gauge or respond to those views. In a time of enrolment-based funding, it’s more important than ever to ...
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Youth may well be wasted on the young, but not when it comes to exerting influence on the higher education sector. As we prepare to enter the 2020s – poised to embrace the emerging technologies and innovations that a new ...
More »Gender equality at UTS: the soapbox
Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our new soapbox segment where we discuss some of the more the more controversial issues of the week. The University of Technology Sydney has made a decision to raise ...
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The government will fast-track visas for 5000 industry leaders every year as part of a global headhunting program. Immigration Minister David Coleman announced details of the Global Talent Independent program this week. Coleman said the goal of the program was to identify ...
More »Shaping sticky students: encouraging lifelong academic relationships in an era of transience
To members of other generational groups, millennials and GenZ are often seen as inconsistent or flighty; too quick to move on when they don’t like a job and lacking the apparently in-built ‘loyalty’ of the generations that precede them. Deserved ...
More »Global investor backs Australian university research
Australian university research has been given a much-needed shot in the arm, with IP Group making its first investment of $4.5 million. The global Group, which commercialises university research, has signed agreements with Australia’s Group of Eight Universities – as ...
More »Locking down our houses of higher learning: why effective cyber protection should start from the top
Around the world, cybersecurity threats are real and rising, and Australia’s education sector is far from immune. Maintaining effective cybersecurity defences has become an enterprise-wide challenge for organisations of all sizes and stripes, including the country’s houses of higher learning. ...
More »The key to creating successful technology projects in education: opinion
Universities, and businesses, all around the world are littered with failed technology projects. If you dig into why those projects fail, the fundamental reasons are often the same – the scope wasn’t well defined or they were trying to achieve ...
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