By DAVID MYTON People with a background in science could be far better prepared to run a business than those who study management, according to Dr Larry Marshall, Chief Executive of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. In an article to coincide with National Science Week, which has...
By DAVID MYTON It is summer in the northern hemisphere and that means a lengthy holiday for university managers, academics and students. But just because the halls of learning are relatively empty that doesn’t mean higher education has slipped out of sight and mind. It hasn’t. As David...
By DAVID MYTON On any measure higher education today is a big enterprise. In Australia alone, the sector employs more than 100,000 staff, educates over a million students, total operating revenue amounts to around $27 billion, and conducts often ground-breaking research across diverse fields. The university “business model”...
By DAVID MYTON There are many fine examples of universities interacting with their local communities to drive access, boost employability and to help to stimulate economic growth. Here in Australia the University of Tasmania and Federation University, to name just two, are doing excellent work in...
By DAVID MYTON Much of the higher education discourse today is centred on the need for students to study “practical” subjects ranging from STEM to those such as accounting, commerce and business-related topics that segue into the needs and demands of employers. And why wouldn’t it be...
By DAVID MYTON Australia’s universities will be extra busy these next few months as they get down to work on developing new transparent and consistent student admissions requirements due to be put in place and operating from August onwards. They will be working from a new admissions transparency...
By DAVID MYTON Some of England’s elite universities found themselves in an unusually awkward position recently having flunked out badly in a new ranking system that seeks to measure teaching excellence. University executives, hitherto used to modestly accepting the acclaims of greatness and prestige bestowed upon them...
By DAVID MYTON It’s been a heady time for highered policy wonks and number crunchers in England with the release recently of the new Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data. LEO is particularly interesting because it links tax data to education records, offering a new insight into how university graduates...
By DAVID MYTON A new study has opened a window into the thinking of Australia’s higher education leaders. It shows that while university bosses and their teams generally are upbeat and optimistic about the future they do have some concerns about where the sector might be heading. Their...
By DAVID MYTON Universities are being urged to demonstrate digital leadership - and if ever there was a good time to do so it is right now. As KPMG’s Stephen Parker wrote this week, current education systems are preparing students for forms of work that are disappearing. “We...