By DAVID MYTON The UK’s new higher education watchdog, the Office for Students, has been keeping an eye on vice-chancellors’ salaries and says that there are signs of pay restraint at some universities “with some vice-chancellors refusing a salary increase”. The OfS, which became operational last April with a mandate...
By DAVID MYTON Kerri-Lee Krause and Marcia Devlin were just a little apprehensive at the recent Universities Australia conference. As co-chairs of the Universities Australia Executive Women Group (UAEW), they had organised a lunch at which they would launch new best practice recruitment guidelines aimed at boosting the number of women in senior executive...
By DAVID MYTONA quiet but potentially powerful revolution is unfolding in higher education – a drive towards sustainability that has become something more than recycling paper and turning off the lights. It now integrates into the very infrastructure of the institutions and, beyond even that,...
By DAVID MYTONWhen it comes to higher education in Australia, Glenn Withers has been there and done that. From Menzies and Whitlam to Hawke, Keating and Howard, and through to the present day – he’s seen it all. He’s an insider who’s been outside often...
By DAVID MYTONTanya Monro is something of a regular at the Rob Roy Hotel, a popular watering hole in Adelaide’s CBD. But she’s not there for the grog. Rather, she can be found talking with her customary passion, answering questions about subjects such as string...
By DAVID MYTONWhen Michael Rosemann talks about business and innovation he speaks with the same insight and passion that an artist will about art or a musician on music. What once might have seemed mundane, or inaccessible, is revealed to be a fascinating landscape replete with opportunity...
By DAVID MYTONAt the Universities Australia conference earlier this year the learned audience paid rapt attention as former US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich painted a dystopian picture of new technologies and global trends driving “shock and uncertainty” in the wake of the unfolding digital revolution.In the audience was Professor Shirley Alexander,...
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...
By DAVID MYTON The good people at LinkedIn have crunched the numbers - some “billions of data points” - and have come up with the top 10 skills that will help you to get a job this year. They include cloud and distributed computing, statistical analysis and...