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Appointments and Achievements (29 May)

The Australian Research Council announces the 2024 Laureate Fellows, * Derek Abbott (Uni Adelaide) * Andrew Baker (UNSW) * Gabrielle Belz (Uni Queensland)  * Nathaniel Bindoff (Uni Tasmania) * Alan Collins (Uni Adelaide) * Yihong Du (Uni MNew England) * Christopher Gibson(Uni Wollongong) * Michael Kearney (Uni Melbourne) * Liza Lim (Uni Sydney) * James McCaw (Uni Melbourne) * Andrea Morello (UNSW) * Jacqueline Peel (Uni Melbourne) * Sharon Robinson (Uni Wollongong) * Jeffrey Walker(Monash U)

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International student caps: good politics, bad results

Universities already work with caps on student numbers, overall and in courses, Uni Newcastle VC Alex Zelinsky said last Friday. He was speaking at a campus event, with Education Minister Jason Clare. “One of the things we have seen with international education is previously it’s been basically uncapped, unlimited and

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In research, maths does not count

Government backing research that will make it to market is not a new funding trend, according to the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). AMSI reports that the maths-specific share of higher education expenditure (HERD) allocations fell from 1.86 per cent of the total in 2018 to 1.26 per cent in

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Better teaching leads to greater employability

Higher quality teaching leads to higher levels of employability amongst university graduates, according to a new study. Examining the employment fortunes of more than 500 people in Uganda, researchers found that graduates who had been taught by lecturers who had achieved high quality standards in their teaching practice were more

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Record employment and incomes for grads

Australian graduates have received record high levels of employment and incomes, according to the QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey released yesterday. The median salary for people graduating with an undergraduate degree in 2023 was $71,000, up $3,000 from 2022 – with those graduating with a postgraduate research degree topping out at

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Is it time for an AI declaration in HE marketing?

First, a confession. I had been talking to a whole range of people across the sector about the Accord, sustainability, changes in leadership etc and two persistent black holes kept emerging: So we decided to launch HE FEST 24  – a conference focused on practical AI and Advancement, which will

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Authentic Leadership in Higher Education

Leadership in higher education is a privilege, not a given opportunity. Good leaders motivate and guide others towards achieving their goals, which in turn, cultivates a pipeline of future leaders who are well-prepared to take on new challenges. Therefore, when colleagues seek out support and encouragement from leaders, it is

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Voice campaign offers lessons for international students

For the nine months since the Coalition successfully sank the proposed Voice, there has been relatively little national discussion about the place of Indigenous people in our country. For a year before the Referendum, we had almost daily national stories and conversations about the proposed Voice, the rights of Indigenous

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Indigenous insights for HE staff

QUT is celebrating the 200th student to graduate from their innovative Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives of Learning and Teaching course, which is designed to build confidence, capacity and understanding for HE staff. Non-Indigenous and Indigenous staff from 20 universities have completed the course, which involves three hours of self-directed learning

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The Week That Was (24 May)

The Commonwealth’s Student Ombudsman is a happening thing, with recruiting underway for a First Assistant Ombudsman, to be “the face” of the new function. Plus there’s a senior assistant. Heaven forfend anybody suggests the new friend to students is two-faced.   *** UNSW has an historic underpaid staff problem that isn’t

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No relief from the red in NSW uni financials

Annual reports for NSW universities in 2023 are tabled in state parliament – among the boundless blather there are three KPIs that really matter – domestic student numbers, international revenue and staff costs. With local growth flat last year and showing no signs of substantial improvement this yaer, most universities

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Data breach disclosure

Data relating to around 7,500 people was hacked and their private information stolen in a data breach at Western Sydney University. The security breach was announced yesterday, just over a year after it occurred and investigations are continuing into the incident. Western Sydney’s Microsoft Office 365 environment was breached for

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Appointments and Achievements (22 May)

The committee to advise on the legislation to establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission is, Tony Cook (DoE) chair * Tom Calma (former Uni Canberra chancellor) * Jenny Dodd (TAFE Directors Australia) * Stephen Duckett (Uni Melbourne) * Verity Firth (UNSW) * Barney Glover (former Western Sydney U VC now

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Caps threaten Aust uni rankings

The global rankings season gets started in earnest next month. QS will release its 2025 World University Rankings (WUR) on 4 June, then Times Higher Education (THE) will release its 2024 Impact Rankings on 12 June. To set the scene for what lies ahead, let me highlight three measures of

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Choosing calm in the face of uncertainty

If you ask commentators about higher education, you’ll often get alarming statements: the world is changing fast, disruption is looming, interest in degrees is declining, your business model is broken, the era of the conventional university is coming to an end. Change is upon us, act now and prepare for

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Pro-Palestine camps: staying, going and who knows

Late Friday University of Queensland Chancellor Peter Varghese “reaffirmed”  that freedom of expression is “a foundational principle” for the university, but “antisemitism and other hate speech has no place on our campus.”  The university Senate also backed Vice Chancellor Deborah Terry’s management of a protest camp at the university and

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