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“I’ve seen a lot of corporate leaders come to higher ed and think they can run it like a bank. And you can’t. It’s not a bank. It’s not a retail company. There are complexities to it that are different on purpose.” 
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Professor Michael Sankey from Charles Darwin University examines some of the emerging trends that will influence the Higher Education and Vocational Education sectors over the next while, but particularly in 2023.
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Still, even a place like Stanford can’t ignore the growing skepticism of higher education in general, and the sense, amplified by the pandemic, that college instruction can happen even without a campus, Rascoff acknowledged.
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Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.
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To bring about positive change at our institutions of higher education, we must revisit older paradigms and look beyond the typical and isomorphic behaviours of the past.
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Is your college or university on track to achieve its strategic goals? Taking the pulse of these four areas can identify problems that need attention or successes moving the institution forward.
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Many researchers in Australia have little job security, and are stressed, burnt out and too often exploited.
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Young academics and support workers are on the breadline as the cost of living crisis bites
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Australia's universities have been corporatised and compromised, and business schools are at the vanguard of academic capture
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Academics described their universities as exploitative, oppressive, toxic and fiscally driven. They felt themselves being dehumanised and demoralised by management. Most reported feelings of burnout.
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Reports of big university budget surpluses appear to undermine calls for their federal funding to increase. But a closer look at how the surpluses were achieved reveals why change is needed.
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The tradition of awarding honorary doctorates highlights unpalatable truths about the role of universities in reproducing social inequality.
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The proposed new university would be called Adelaide University and open in 2026, with the aim of becoming Australia’s biggest university for domestic students.
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One key question that surfaced during the Monday meeting boiled down to this: What type of student does this new college—referred to at this point by the place-holder name, “New Educational Institution,” or NEI—intend to serve? Several recent efforts to start experimental colleges from scratch have aimed squarely at students with high standardized test scores and strong academic preparation. That’s the case, for instance, for Minerva Project, a private institution that uses a home-grown online teaching system and has a hybrid for-profit and nonprofit funding model, as well as the budding University of Austin, a startup college in Texas aimed at ensuring more viewpoint diversity.
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Education Minister Jason Clare has released the terms of reference for the broadest review of higher education in Australia since 2008.
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What can a University do to help students? They certainly can do more to help students feel they belong to their campus. One way to achieve this is to make more classes face-to-face. I have been shocked at how many undergraduate subjects, particularly in the humanities, are still being taught online. This semester students told me they chose my unit because it has a face-to-face tutorial. One student said that she “just wanted to see other students”.
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One nation recently published a climate action plan. Its climate minister stated that some of the country’s homes will have to be relocated as sea and river levels rise. I’d like to sh…
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Within a week of giving birth, neuroscientist Natalia Egorova Brumley was holding her baby in one hand and typing a grant application with the other. She was trying to save her career.
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Smaller universities have been urged to innovate as Melbourne and Monash report a combined surplus of almost $950 million.
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Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker said underpayments in the tertiary sector had become a systemic issue, which has been linked to the use of casual academics.
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Universities are still patriarchal institutions, with men dominating senior leadership positions. Systemic mechanisms are needed to ensure all our future leaders are able to flourish.
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How to provide lifelong learning is not a new topic and it has been on the agenda for decades in regions such as Europe. But the advent of SDG 4 ha
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A new alert issued by the FBI warns higher education institutions that cybersecurity agents have identified U.S. college and university credentials are being advertised for sale on “dark web” criminal marketplaces and on publicly accessible internet forums.
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