By DAVID MYTON Many recent university graduates lack the “soft skills” they need to perform at a high level in business and industry, according to a recent study. The Bloomberg Next-Workday report – Building Tomorrow’s Talent: Collaboration Can Close Emerging Skills Gap – found that new recruits in the...
By DAVID MYTON According to QUT’s corporate engagement maestro Professor Michael Rosemann, in this rapidly shape-shifting digital era businesses and other enterprises face a choice: either of being disrupted, or being the disruptors. In an analogy he made in a CMM In Conversation With interview, there are turkeys and...
By DAVID MYTON In its recent report Securing Australia’s Future, the Australian Council of Learned Academies said a key priority for Australia was to build better links between business and industry and researchers. Among other things, this would require economic, social and cultural changes “driven by visionary leadership and targeted investments...
By DAVID MYTON Among the many thousands of words in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education’s recent policy discussion document 26 leapt from the page with startling force. The words, arranged in two sentences on page 99, formed part of Andrew Norton’s paper ‘Universities...
By DAVID MYTON As the UK comes to grips with the reality of a post-Brexit future the government is planning a new industrial strategy designed to boost economic growth and increase productivity. In recent weeks it has issued a Green Paper discussion document centred on 10 “pillars”...
Higher education is good for people’s health, wealth and general wellbeing - and broader society benefits from it too, says the OECD in its recently released Education at a glance 2016. Investing in education pays off in the long run for both men and women, says...
It seems that the fourth industrial revolution – the big digital disruption - is now unfolding and, as revolutions tend to do, it is changing the way we live and work. Disruptive changes to business models will have a profound impact on the employment landscape over...
In recent decades higher education has become a major economic force around the globe. But have university managers correspondingly become sufficiently business-like? Well, there may be room for improvement according to one opinion this week. But first, the scale – it’s big. According to a Deloitte Access...
A recent article in the Guardian posed the question: Are universities doing enough to help students start businesses? It seems reasonable to ask given that, according to recent research, more than a quarter of students have started, or plan to start, a small venture while...