By DAVID MYTON A quiet revolution has been taking place organised by dedicated teams in the backrooms of universities across Australia and New Zealand. Largely unnoticed, its impact nevertheless will be deep and lasting. It is the My eQuals project: a new online platform that gives Australian...
By DAVID MYTON Professor Ellen Hazelkorn’s argument that many higher education institutions have disengaged themselves from their local communities (see my previous HECG Trendwatch) has been challenged this week by Universities Australia. In its latest newsletter UA says Australia’s higher education sector is globally oriented but also has...
By DAVID MYTON Universities have proliferated so much in recent years that you can find them most anywhere in the major centres of the world. In the words of James Derounian, writing in the UK highered policy magazine Wonkhe, they are “physically, socially, culturally economically and...
By DAVID MYTON And now for something completely different - a blog about Tweets and Twitter. Over the past 28 days I have published 114 Tweets on @HE_CG. My aim is to reflect the variety of thought, opinion and research relevant to anyone interested in education,...
By DAVID MYTON With Australia's Federal Budget looming on May 9 lobbyists are busy making the case that higher education funding should be quarantined from further cuts. Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said universities and their students had contributed $3.9 billion to rein in the Budget deficit...
By DAVID MYTON A fascinating article this week by Edith Cowan University fashion historian Lydia Edwards on the accuracy or otherwise of costumes in television and film period dramas got me thinking: the movie-television industry is hugely reliant on the work of traditional historians and those...
By DAVID MYTON Universities have a job on their hands this year as they figure out how to ensure their admissions systems and entry requirements are equitable, transparent and understandable. They don’t have much choice in the matter. First, Peter Shergold's Higher Education Standards Panel on undergraduate entry requirements...
By DAVID MYTON Accompanying Times Higher’s World Reputation Rankings last year was a thought-provoking comment from Paul Blackmore, professor of Higher Education at King’s College London’s Policy Institute. Reflecting on the strong performance of Asian universities in their continuing climb up the rankings, Professor Blackmore declared: “We’ve had...
By DAVID MYTON The Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda has copped its share of flak during its lifetime (viz: “whimsical cash-splash for inner-city hipsters”) but there it still is, chugging along, funnelling not a little of its $1.1 billion in the direction of highered. One of...
By DAVID MYTON It is widely accepted that universities are facing massive challenges as society transitions from the industrial age into the digital era. Higher education’s traditional “business model” is being battered by technological disruptions in parallel with growing demands that it be responsible for the constant...