Growing up in 1960s Melbourne, I was given my first real administration position at my primary school as ‘milk monitor’. It came with responsibility for ensuring the milk bottles were brought in from the sun in time for recess each ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to higher education being moved en masse to remote and online learning in a compressed timeline. Limited returns to on-campus learning are evident depending on disease outbreak levels and health advice in local areas, but the ...

Shaken by the COVID-19 induced collapse in international student revenue, campuses at Australian universities are buzzing with ideas about how they will survive in the future. Compounded by the pandemic, our higher education institutions are now even more dependent on ...

Research for a COVID-19 vaccine is happening worldwide and is a vital factor in helping combat the coronavirus pandemic. Concerning reports are emerging from intelligence agencies in the UK, USA and Canada saying they have identified hacking attempts and cyber ...

There is general consensus that Prensky (2001)[1] was correct in his view that there are digital natives and digital immigrants – and that such personas would impact on future notions of learning and subsequently teaching. I hasten to add that ...

COVID-19 has caused a brutal reappraisal of the value of higher education and the university business model. Universities Australia estimates a revenue shortfall of up to $4.5 billion in 2020 with international student demand dropping by up to 50 per ...

In October 2019, my colleague and I wrote a commentary in The Australian about the need for Australian universities to prepare and safeguard offshore students who are affected by political unrest. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 further exposes that many ...

Working in and around Australian universities in 2020 is certainly different! And most of the commentators are speculating that 2021 will be even tougher. Or will they be times of opportunity? And how do we ensure we give equal attention ...

A curious feeling of dismay is exhibited by many educators when PISA scores are released that show Australia’s seemingly intractable steady decline against the OECD average, and against other countries in our region. A similar feeling of dismay is also ...

It happened again. On 31st July, the University of NSW tweeted an article which quoted Human Rights Watch's Australia director and adjunct law lecturer, Elaine Pearson, expressing her concerns over the erosion of human rights in Hong Kong. The tweet ...