Cadmus CEO Herk Kailis joins the podcast to outline how EdTech companies have emerged to provide support services to help individual universities focus on what they want to be great at. He describes the importance and scope for technology innovation ...
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Australia’s environmental issues such as floods and bushfires will now be monitored and tackled from space thanks to artificial intelligence. A new Space Tech hub in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology and Ernst & Young Australia aims to prevent ...
More »Higher education is neglecting a key area in digital transformation: opinion
Universities and colleges have made great progress in their journey towards digital transformation, but many still have a long way to go. In recent years we have seen higher education embrace digitalisation throughout the institution; modernising websites, enabling online class ...
More »A post-binary approach to equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education: opinion
The last two weeks in Australia has seen outcomes from an election which some might argue has shifted the leadership landscape and heightened expectations. For those defeated in the election, there have been reappraisals of the way forward and post-mortems underway ...
More »Conference tackles gender inequality in higher education
Universities are sleepwalking on gender equity and must implement stronger policies to address sexism and increase womens' representation in higher levels of academia, sector leaders have said. Higher education consultancy HEDx held its second live conference event in Sydney's Museum ...
More »Democratising higher education for the benefit of society: opinion
The worldwide expansion of demand for higher education during the past half century has fostered systemic national reform efforts to expand access to greater proportions of respective populations. Educational technologies have exponentially accelerated these efforts and changed their means of ...
More »USQ-led rocket hub to launch Australia’s space economy
The University of Southern Queensland will build a new rocket manufacturing hub as part of a commercialisation project geared to developing Australia's budding space industry. On Monday, the Coalition government announced the last round of Trailblazer grants, which awarded USQ ...
More »How has the higher education sector’s strategic thinking changed in two years? Opinion
The HEDx podcast turns 50 with its next episode. In doing so it will feature Michael Crow of Arizona State University as a global leader in higher education innovation and leadership, outlining a bold and differentiated global strategy. The last ...
More »UA says small funding boost could help Australian universities generate $24 billion
A one per cent investment in research and development could raise productivity and increase Australia’s revenue by $24 billion over the next decade, says Universities Australia. This means for every $1 invested in the research sector, $5 would be returned to ...
More »Being noticed, different, prepared and fearless. How far can we go? Opinion
The current period is one of many dilemmas for all universities. They are celebrating newly busy campuses again without knowing how long students and staff will stick to them. They all missed providing face to face social interactions, which are ...
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