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 ...

There has been much to think about in universities in the last 18 months, adjusting to short-term emergencies such as campus closures, shifts online and revenue hits.   There has also been cause to reconsider how universities are set for the ...

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 ...

Improving international ranking status has, during the last two decades, become the justification for numerous disruptive ‘strategic’ business and marketing behaviours across our tertiary sector.  To add to those 17,300 jobs ‘shed’ due to COVID-19 (Universities Australia, Feb 3rd, 2021) ...

COVID-19 has changed not only how higher education is delivered but the experiential nature of study. It’s time providers fundamentally rethink the role of the student experience to remain viable in the face of intensifying competition. In today’s digital world, ...

The term technological adoption – so broad and all-encompassing it has come to mean nothing in and of itself – has been rolled out countless times over the last decade, and even more over the last year.  As COVID continues ...

In higher education, we pride ourselves on being evidence-based decision-making entities. We promote our missions to serve our communities and to create a better world and better futures for all.  There is strong evidence that diversity drives better organisational outcomes. ...

Every other week, two types of articles about online exams seem to come out: either students are being caught cheating remotely, or students (and some teachers) fear that the online vigilance of remote exams has the potential to be taken ...

There is a tension and dynamic playing out in the sector in many of our institutions of what comes next. Another budget has come and gone. It leaves us in no doubt that public funding relief for either our research, or ...

These are the most difficult times to be leading one of our Australian universities. Half of them have VCs who were appointed and commenced during times of turmoil. The other half had existing VCs already steering the ship when the ...