Appointments and Achievements (November 16th)
Jan Clohessy becomes marketing director at Federation U. She moves from global marketing director at RMIT. The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia announces new fellows Canberra: * David […]
The Week That Was (November 16)
The Commonwealth Government has long made it plain VET skills are core policy. Ed Husic demonstrates they are also fundamental to Labor’s political pitch. In a speech to the Sydney […]
Skills Passport – Game Changer or New e-Cover on Old Book?
The Australian Government is scoping the potential to introduce a National Skills Passport, seeking to make it “easier for employees to demonstrate their skills, change jobs and upskill, while making […]
New tools for women ready to lead in HE
Women seeking to prepare for senior roles in the HE sector have a fresh set of resources available through a new website developed by WATTLE, an intensive grass-roots leadership development […]
First Indigenous Knowledges Faculty launches
QUT has made a strong pitch to attract Indigenous students and scholars by establishing Australia’s first Faculty of Indigenous Knowledges and Culture. Launching in 2024, and taking students in 2025, […]
The ideal job – without the pay packet
Physics under palm trees? Jurisprudence in the jungle? If you crave impact, satisfaction, recognition, Professor Graham Schaffer has the perfect job for you. There’s just the small matter of finances; […]
Lobbies want more in legislation to protect research
Federal Government plans to change the way the Australian Research Council works, to implement the Sheil Review of the Agency’s Act. Research lobbies responses vary from the okay to the […]
Your last chance for useful HE conversation in 2023
Good people of HE, 2023 has boiled down to this. We have had recovery in international student numbers, heart attacks and ecstatic indulgence from various corners of the tea room […]
Pandemic adaptions endure in HE teaching
The pandemic changed teaching – but post-crisis, it hasn’t changed back. Jaclyn Broadbent and colleagues surveyed and interviewed academics from a “large comprehensive Australian university,” about teaching pre and post […]
Husic’s four sells on skills: more Chifley than Whitlam
Ed Husic has set out campaign messages for the next election – more, but also better jobs for workers. The Industry and Science Minister spoke for Sydney’s west in a […]