Educational Leadership

As police raided student protest encampments at American universities with rubber bullets and tear gas, in Melbourne academics brought jam and scones.

These kids aren’t lazy. We’re failing them.

International students accounted for 78 per cent of Sydney University fee revenue in 2022, and 48 per cent of the institution’s total revenue.

I’ll defend active parenting and standing up for your children when they can’t stand up for themselves - but there are limits. Here are mine.

In 2008 the groundbreaking education book ‘Visible Learning’ was released. A sequel published this month finds teaching is still the most important factor when it comes to student learning

Remote learning has made it easier for students to study passion subjects outside their school.

New research from Wonkhe and Pearson shows four foundations to student belonging

Childhood dreams of being an All Black helped give a senior academic leader the courage to adopt the humble posture of a pupil with much to learn.

Australia’s major competitors in the international education market are already rebounding from the pandemic and have issued record numbers of student visas.

The 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot building, made up of eight-person living units, would house 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their compact single-occupancy bedrooms.

Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.

Six strategies can help develop intentional, effective structures to improve students’ digital experiences.

Australian universities are being urged by the Albanese government to set up courses overseas and online to help bring down numbers arriving in the country.

A teacher at a school in Australia has gained fans around the world after a Twitter post about the stuffed toys she made for her students as a surprise Christmas gift went viral.

The last year has revealed a demand for flexibility in higher education which will endure well beyond the pandemic. Against a backdrop of declining enrollment, online and distributed lifestyles are becoming commonplace, and more students are demanding the ability to work and study on their own schedules. This has huge implications not just for the way you structure your online and nontraditional programs, but also how you can effectively reach these students and market to them.

We’ve identified three key higher education recruitment strategies to attract and enroll nontraditional students in this transformed environment. In case you haven’t heard, we’ve recently merged with Anthology – and this gives us even greater insight into the modern student and some great new ways to engage them.

Students matching the ‘traditional’ applicant’s profile see university as a stepping stone to a good job. Those from less-well-represented groups care more about higher education’s intrinsic value.

Hopes are rising that international students will be back in Australia early in 2022, but that doesn’t mean the education sector will be able to shrug off the impacts of their absence any time soon.