Payroll fails: they can take years to fix
Until they are staff are owed millions Superannuation used to be a problem for university payroll systems. Required contributions weren’t added to wages and allowances, because of system and process […]
Confident students sign up faster
A new paper by QUT researchers looking at the education choices of international students finds they are likely to sign up more quickly when they have confidence in guidance counsellors, […]
Doors open for studentpreneurs and kiwis
Whether new legislation enabling up to 1,000 students each year to top off their Bachelor degree with a Startup Year warrants the entrance of new words to the long-suffering English […]
Working from home: it’s not just what you do, it’s where you do it
There’s a push to give professional staff the right to work some of the week from home In 2020 a UNSW staff survey found just 3 per cent wanted to […]
Recognition, belonging and a clear strategy key to keeping staff
Finding a good team fit and better pay are twice as important as spending more time with family for higher education staff thinking about changing jobs. The Future Campus 2023 […]
Great Accord expectations: tertiary ed stakeholders ask for more
Mary O’Kane and Accord colleagues will have had a dickens of a job addressing all the ideas in submissions Last week Professor O’Kane thanked HE stakeholders for their enthusiastic response […]
Better work lives for starting STEMM researchers – learning about the world outside will help
STEMM early and mid-career researchers love their work but have had it with their work environments by the time they complete their thesis or postdocs – even worse they worry […]
Rankings rise – but are unis improving?
There was euphoria at the University of Melbourne as it jumped from 33rd to 14th in the world in the QS 2024 World University Rankings, with champagne corks also popping […]
Patient culture cultivation delivers root of success
I was taught that the evolution of grasses transformed our planet. In the age of dinosaurs, there were trees but no grasses. Trees grow from the top, while grasses grow […]
Professor Michelle Trudgett – First Person Interview
Name: Professor Michelle Trudgett Role / where you work: Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership at Western Sydney University (the #1 University in the World in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings) […]