According to recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian economy may lose a massive $40 billion by 2023 due to a significant drop in the influx of international students caused by the pandemic and border restrictions. ...
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CampusReview · HEDx Podcast - Episode 25 v3 In this episode of HEDx, Brigid Heywood outlines her journey into the role of VC and CEO at Australia's oldest regional university in New England before she was plucked from a planned ...
More »If a real estate company can create an innovation culture, imagine what a university can do? Opinion
Organisational culture is often described as what it feels like to work somewhere, or “how we do things around here”. What it has felt like to work at universities, and how things are done there, arise from the historical practices ...
More »HEDx podcast – Listen Carefully: Disruption can’t happen without an innovative culture – Episode 23
CampusReview · HEDx podcast - Listen Carefully: Disruption can't happen without an innovative culture - Episode 23 This week on HEDx Karl and Martin speak with the leaders from one of Australia’s leading technology companies REA Group: Mary Lemonis and Henry Ruiz. They ...
More »Reflections on The Conversation’s 10th anniversary: The story of how it came about
Ten years ago this month (March 25) The Conversation launched to a bemused and sceptical audience. Countless people said beforehand: “So you want to get academics to write to deadlines?? Forget it. It won’t work. They can’t even write.” I ignored ...
More »Will the new University of Sydney VC appointment see a new business model? opinion
Was it inevitable that we would get to a situation where all Australian universities were converging as copies of each other? Looking back, it appears the policy settings, and the way markets were managed, created little alternative in the pre-2020 ...
More »Time for a wholesale change of strategy: Have we been here before? opinion
How will university strategy be impacted by the pandemic? And what are the most important long-term drivers of change ahead? Local business links or global digital disruption? These are two of the biggest questions facing our sector as the cycle ...
More »Leading a university in a crisis: are we planning for the battle or the war?
The pandemic has many characteristics of a global conflict. War is often about turmoil and chaos and we have had much exposure to that in the last year. Wars often last a long time. Our need to deal with further ...
More »Assessing gender inequity in academia for International Women’s Day: opinion
Our recent critical review noted that gender inequity in academia exists across all traditional academic benchmarks, including grants and funding, publishing and citations, service, opportunities to attend professional development and conferences, and leadership opportunities. And, gender discrepancies result in a ...
More »Are $50k degrees finished? opinion
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 ...
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