Student uncertainty and animosity regarding potential course cuts at the University of Sydney (USyd) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has escalated, with a student general meeting called by Usyd’s student representative council (SRC) on Wednesday via Zoom. Called ...

The federal minister for Education, Alan Tudge, has painted Australian education as a system in serious decline in a speech to the conservative think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS). Tudge tore into the current crop of teachers, telling ...

Kent Anderson, deputy vice-chancellor at Newcastle university, joins us soon after a two-year spell in ministers' Tehan and Tudge's office guiding recent policy changes. He comments on the divide between chancelleries and ministry that has developed in recent years, and ...

Previous Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and Hermann Muller, are acknowledged for making some of the most historic contributions in their respective scientific fields, be that physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology.  There have been female Nobel winners too, such ...

Pre-pandemic, there was already widespread acknowledgement that the traditional higher education business model was seriously outdated. 2020 represented a tipping point as all Australian universities were forced to shift to either fully remote learning or hybrid learning, a trend that ...

Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers recently completed a study exploring the extent and impact of contract cheating across the global academic community during COVID-19. Written by Associate Professor in Education Dr Jon Mason and Senior Business Law Lecturer Dr Guzyal ...

In this episode, Professor Jennifer Whyte of the University of Sydney joins the HEDx podcast to reflect on culture, leadership and partnerships as an Australian Head of School in a Go8 compared to her experiences at Imperial College in the ...

The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) survey program, including the 2021 Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS), has just been released, highlighting the ongoing effect the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Australian labour market as well as sharp differences ...

Steve Jobs once said: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.” Looking back, 2020/21 was a time of dramatic shift in universities. International student income had propelled research growth, raising our performance in ...

Denice Pitt, CEO of online learning pioneers OES, joins HEDx to reflect on the 10-year journey of her company supporting universities in bringing high quality online learning to non-traditional students.  She outlines the culture and technology combination, and novel approach to ...