Australia’s technology industry is struggling to fill job vacancies at an alarming rate. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that 27 per cent of all Australian businesses are having difficulty finding suitable staff, and with COVID-19 putting a halt ...

The Australian National University has taken on the task of training the country’s “next generation of nuclear scientists and practitioners”, following the scrapping of the $90 billion French submarines deal and the establishment of the AUKUS alliance between the US, ...

Australian universities are facing ongoing pressure from cyber attackers who have been emboldened by COVID-19 disruptions and attracted to the increasingly digital nature of learning and research. Universities store highly valuable information about students as well as data regarding research ...

The pandemic forced many tertiary education institutions in Australia and New Zealand to speed up their ongoing digital transformation efforts. As institutions rush to quickly transition to digital modes of learning, many of them are struggling with gaps in the ...

To date, a tremendous amount of technological and policy development has been directed toward curbing the use of online “paper mills” or websites where students can purchase essays written for them, but the issue remains problematic and largely unresolved.  In ...

Insights from our 2021 Tertiary Education Digital Transformation Index found that 74 per cent of the institutions surveyed rely on internal resources to manage security, which places a huge strain on their internal IT resources.  Since the pandemic, tertiary education institutions throughout ...

Virtually overnight, IT teams across the higher education sector leapt into action to transition lesson delivery from face-to-face to online in the face of COVID-19 restrictions.  But the feat of making the impossible possible unearthed some valuable learnings. It was ...

How best to determine whether students understand the content they’ve been taught and can apply it when the need arises, is the million dollar question for administrators and educators around the country. Certainly, there are plenty of assessment formats at ...

Many institutions responded quickly to the new education environment, pivoting to digital tools for teaching, learning delivery and student support. But the change has been uneven, with many institutions still in the early stages of transformation. Peter Nikoletatos, Industry General ...

There appears to be some confusion in the sector around the meaning and application of ‘hybrid’ delivery to higher education students.  The view is that teaching students online while also providing a face-to-face (F2F) classroom option requires two sets of ...