Six years have now passed since the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) was introduced as part of a suite of educational reforms to return Australia’s education system back to its ‘rightful’ place. Fuelled by an Australian ...

Is compulsory vaccination coming to Australian post-secondary education – colleges, universities and the large (4.2 million students) vocational education and training sector? Yes, in some circumstances, given that it’s already here. Sadly, it looks like we in Australia (and certainly ...

It’s unequivocally our most important yet problematic relationship we share with another country.  And on Wednesday, former Australian prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull recommended the coalition government dampen the domestic political rhetoric against China that has been building ...

Sydney’s two highest-ranked universities will put aside their competitiveness and “bickering” to build more of a collaborative relationship, new vice-chancellor and president of Sydney university Professor Mark Scott said.  For decades now, the University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney have ...

When times are tough, one of the best coping strategies is to leave the past behind, move out of your current predicament, and focus on the horizon ahead. All of us are trying to look ahead right now. Our ability ...

As the onshore international student market continues to be suppressed by the ever-evolving manifestations of COVID-19, the heady lure of establishing offshore operations in potential growth markets in Asia is inevitably the fare of boardroom discussions in many universities and ...

This episode has University of Newcastle VC Alex Zelinsky join HEDx to outline its five-year strategy called Looking Ahead. A leader with CSIRO and Defence Scientist backgrounds, Zelinsky dismisses the prospect of research commercialisation replacing lost international student revenue.  He instead outlines ...

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 ...