Educational Leadership

The consequences of the Coalition’s job ready graduate scheme mean the costs of some courses have ballooned up to 140% over the past five years

One key question that surfaced during the Monday meeting boiled down to this: What type of student does this new college—referred to at this point by the place-holder name, “New Educational Institution,” or NEI—intend to serve?

Several recent efforts to start experimental colleges from scratch have aimed squarely at students with high standardized test scores and strong academic preparation. That’s the case, for instance, for Minerva Project, a private institution that uses a home-grown online teaching system and has a hybrid for-profit and nonprofit funding model, as well as the budding University of Austin, a startup college in Texas aimed at ensuring more viewpoint diversity.

A Victoria-first pilot program in which young school students attend a children’s university and graduate is showing that learning doesn’t only have to happen inside a classroom.

The university experience in 2022 will not be the same as before the pandemic. However, as many universities across Australia are starting the first week of the semester, we are cautiously optimistic.

There is increasing alarm over the lack of progress around sexual harassment and assault on Australian university campuses. Much of the focus so far has been on students but staff are also at risk.

“I’ve seen a lot of corporate leaders come to higher ed and think they can run it like a bank. And you can’t. It’s not a bank. It’s not a retail company. There are complexities to it that are different on purpose.”
@DaveKiefferTech, principal analyst,Tambellini Group

Founded in the 5th Century, India's Nalanda University is believed to be the world's first residential university. Established more than 500 years before Oxford University, at its peak Nalanda hosted over 10,000 students from around the world and was considered one of the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world.

The university was destroyed around the end of the 12th Century, its legendary library burnt to the ground and much of its ancient knowledge lost. It wasn't until the 19th Century that the ruins of Nalanda were rediscovered, and now, around 800 years after it was lost, the university is being relaunched for the modern age.

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Universities Australia, which represents the country’s 39 large universities, has backed a Greens bill strip the education minister of his research grant veto power after Stuart Robert rejected six research grants on Christmas Eve.

The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.