Professor Sherman Young DVC at RMIT joins pedagogical evangelist Manuela Francheschini from Adobe to discuss digital adeptness and fluency. As technology moves so fast, the big questions appear to be posed by students and staff becoming unsure of what the ...
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The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia have formalised plans to merge into the state’s largest higher education institution by 2026. Last week, the South Australian government announced it would invest $450 million to establish the new ...
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University of Wollongong deputy vice-chancellor Professor Leo Farrell has been announced as the new head of Victoria's La Trobe University. Professor Farrell, an internationally recognised war scholar, said he looked forward to realising a "bold and exciting" future for the ...
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There is much evidence to support the view that the future of work is changing rapidly. The accelerating decay in the value of acquired knowledge and experience is behind much of the increasing drive and need for lifelong learning. And ...
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Australia’s peak higher education body has called on the government to uncap university places for Indigenous peoples living in urban areas. Universities Australia said the move would help Australia achieve its target of having 70 per cent of First Nations ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Partnering with tech companies to deliver lifelong learning – Episode 76
Tiffany Wright as Director of Education for Microsoft ANZ outlines how tech companies offer opportunities for partnership in the global mission to make education available to all. The future of work is being increasingly influenced by and disrupted by technology and ...
More »New audit reveals QLD unis lost $1.3bn in 2022
Cash-strapped universities have been instructed to find new ways to make money to offset tumbling enrolments, as more school leavers choose work over study. Soaring living costs, especially rent, food and electricity, are forcing more Australian students to defer or ...
More »QS 2024 World Rankings: UniMelb rises to the top
The University of Melbourne has achieved its highest-ever place in this year’s global higher education rankings, with three Australian universities breaking into the world’s top 20. The annual QS World University Rankings ranked Melbourne University 14th globally and first in ...
More »What are the alternatives to university rankings in assessing research? – opinion
Global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality have been underway for more than 10 years now, with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) celebrating its 10th anniversary in May 2023. This initiative and other related initiatives such as ...
More »The state of access control across Australia’s universities
The education and training sector reported the fifth highest number of cyber security incidents - andthe most ransomware incidents - of any industry sector in the 2021-22 financial year. It is particularly challenged by having a dynamic, highly distributed and ...
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