Leiden Ranking Open Edition 2024 – Australian results
The CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition relies on data from the OpenAlex database and provides a multidimensional view of university performance – with indices across collaboration, scientific impact and open […]
World-first fully-transparent ranking prompts HE status re-think
Australian Catholic University is the nation’s top ranked institution in terms of the proportion of its research that is highly cited, ranked 20th in the world, followed by UTS in […]
Peak uni lobby calls for the same deal as TAFE
Universities Australia wants parity of esteem with TAFE; calling on the Commonwealth to commit $493m to fund fee-free university study by disadvantaged students in skills-need areas. The peak body’s budget […]
Elite medical colleges force to change qualification titles
Elite medical colleges providing postgraduate training in breach of the TEQSA Act called for “legislative change” so they could keep badging courses as diplomas. However it is an offence under […]
Research OA: more readers, more places
Research published open access nearly doubled to 47 per cent of all scholarly outputs between 2011 and 2020. But it is hard to tell how much is cited and where […]
Blockchain offers opportunity to contain ‘chaotic robots’
A large language model can already function as an as assistant, to do all your routine office tasks, which is fine if you don’t mind daffy outcomes. In their paper, […]
Tertiary Education Commission assumed to be on the cards
The University Accord team floated the idea of a TEC in its discussion paper and lobbies were quick to support it – their off the record idea being that they […]
Final siren for rankings game?
Today a new “Open Edition” of the Leiden Ranking has been launched. But what does it mean that a ranking is “open” or “transparent”? Does it make a difference? Does […]
Unmet demand for grads by 2050
There will be 5.8 million more jobs requiring higher education by 2050, according to research commissioned for the Universities Accord review – unless climate change or labour market dynamics result […]
The Summer That Was
“Open the pod bay doors please HAL.” “I’m sorry Dave, show me where it specifies I have to do that in the new International Standards Organisation brief for using AI […]