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...
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...
By DAVID MYTON A lone rower sculls across the placid surface of Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin, the passage of his craft marked by the ripples and eddies stirred by the vessel and the rhythmic lapping of the oars. Emeritus Professor Barry Ninham AO is taking his...
By David Myton Some months ago Thomson Reuters announced we are now living in the most innovative age in human history. Analysing global intellectual property data and tracking global scientific literature publications, TR found that overall levels of innovation had sped on at record pace, with global...
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,...