If you are ready to contemplate a future where institutional agility, student and staff wellbeing, and better outcomes could be unlocked through new approaches to HE, it's time to join the Future Campus one day University Without Walls symposium on 23 February.
We are showcasing a radically different operating model with an extraordinary back story at the event, which will be your only chance to hear directly about the lessons from implementing a low-cost, high involvement, high success tertiary education model with direct lessons for Australian Institutions. The conference has attracted strong interest from speakers across the sector, because of the significance of the University Without Walls model to Australians.
Professor Yana Sychikova (Suchikova) and Professor Igor Lyman on their experience in Ukraine – to be followed by insights from a stellar group of Australian HE experts, providing insights into the future of Australian HE, including:
- Jobs and Skills Australia Commissioner and Interim ATEC Chief Commissioner and Accord co-author Professor Barney Glover;
- JCU DVC A Professor Mitch Parsell;
- Deakin DVC A Professor Matthew CLARKE;
- UQ Psychology and AI in education guru Professor Jason M. Lodge;
- Macquarie PVC (Research Services) Ross McLennan;
- IRU Exec Director Paul Harris,
- RUN Exec Director Alec Webb
Future Campus is hosting Professor Sychikova and Lyman in Australia for one week only in February. Their story is not just an extraordinary feat of survival, but they also bring insights from researching 40 displaced universities
For almost four years, Professor Sychikova and Lyman and colleagues have run their Ukrainian university from a floor in a borrowed tower, after their campus was occupied, leaders hunted and research resources destroyed, when Russian forces occupied their city in 2022.
They have sustained enrolments, maintained a strong record of student completions and increased their research output, despite no campus and few resources.
The success of the Ukrainian model poses many questions for the future of Australian HE – particularly as the Accord blueprint requires an extra million students to be engaged and enrolled in a cost effective way over the next 23 years.
Is Australia's higher education sector bewitched by Australia's obsession with real estate and a rose-tinted devotion to 20th century teaching models? Do we have adequate protection against research espionage? Are we ready for the next crisis that will interrupt normal operations? There are many questions ahead to discuss.
Join us for a truly remarkable event in HE leadership that could just change your mind about the ways tertiary education should be delivered in future.