Little love for new national university
Overall, the Regional Universities Network is pleased with what Mary O’Kane and her Accord colleagues have proposed in their Interim Report. “Regional communities hoping for a major reform of Australia’s […]
TEQSA tackles AI
The Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency acknowledges that it will have to adapt to Large Language Models (LLMs) that underpin AI products such as ChatGPT, rather than seek to bend […]
New platform for bad news
Neuroscientist Simon Gandevia has established Retractions Australia, drawing on the global Retraction Watch database of research papers pulled by publishers. There are certainly cases to cover. The RW database records […]
How international students coped through COVID
While they had an especially tough time in the pandemic overall research found they coped as well as locals – a new paper suggests they managed by being kind to […]
Unpacking the mental load – ticket giveaway
The tidal wave of workplace change since 2020 has left a lot of higher education staff – and higher education organisations – struggling to adapt. Fortunately, our friends at the […]
Vibe survey provides fascinating window into student mindset
With Open Day season about to get into full swing, and modest gains in international recruitment at many institutions fuelling a stronger emphasis on domestic enrolments, a new UAC study […]
A New Deal for HE – the road ahead
The interim report of the Australian Universities Accord has been released by Mary O’Kane and her team. It lays out feasible steps for achieving a grand vision. This review is […]
The Week that Was
Adjusting to the possibilities of GPT4? Here’s something to scare the cyber strides off. The Office of National Intelligence announces a Monash U team has just shy of $600 000 […]
Student demands drive campus changes
Student demand is re-shaping the shape and function of campuses, in response to student demands for a better vibe. UAC’s 2022 national survey found that “vibe and campus culture” was […]
Jason Clare’s Sale of the Century
The Universities Accord Interim Report has created a new future for tertiary education – the question is will universities embrace, oppose or acquiesce? If Education Minister Jason Clare convinces cabinet […]