Right now, public policy and university innovation appear focused on micro-credentials. Micro-credentials bring an ability to deliver smaller collections of rapidly changing and emerging new knowledge to a growing learning community, whose commitment to formal qualifications, as a sole education ...

From the outset, well-known and respected academic Professor Marcia Devlin draws attention in a recent article to a subject that appears to be languishing in academia. Released this month in Academic Letters, Devlin quickly establishes some disappointing statistics relating to ...

The Australian National University's vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt delivered his ‘State of the University 2021’ address this week, describing how critical universities are to Australian democracy and four of the institution’s top goals for 2025. Situated in Australia’s capital, Schmidt ...

CampusReview · HEDx: There's no going back - Episode 17 This HEDx podcast sees Karl and Martin joined by Chris Eigeland, the chief revenue officer of edtech start-up GO1.  The episode explores how new entrants are moving at warp speed to disrupt ...

Now is the time when all of our universities have more opportunity and need to explore, and counter, disruptive transformations to the higher education business model than ever before.

This article has two purposes. The first is to summarise the Productivity Commission’s Report on the National Skills and Workforce Development Agreement which has just been released with little fanfare in the heat haze of the summer holidays. As yet, there ...

New figures released by Universities Australia show 17,300 jobs were lost in the university market in 2020 along with an estimated $1.8 billion in revenue compared to 2019. UA CEO Catriona Jackson said the operating revenue of Australian universities dropped ...

A group comprising 22 of the country’s leading scientists and thinkers has released a statement urging the Australian government to tackle some of the biggest threats facing humanity and the globe. Some of the top minds included Professor John Hewson ...

I was reminded of the past over the holidays when my kids bought me a turntable that allowed my old vinyl collection to be dusted off out of sleeves, mostly unopened since the 1980s.  I was amazed they still played. ...

Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA) has raised a number of concerns in its submission to the TEQSA Review – Making and Assessing Claims of Scholarship and Scholarly Activity (Oct 2020), including how narrowing definitions of scholarship will affect the diversity ...