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14 Sep How universities can work with their communities to build a better future for all

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By David Wright, HECG Managing Director The University of Sheffield in Yorkshire, England, is a partner in a high-tech collaboration in which university scientists, engineers and students work side-by-side with industry “to solve live problems and create value” for firms such as Rolls Royce. One element of this...

09 Sep From research glory to a story of university drop-outs: HECG HIGHERED TRENDWATCH

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It’s been something of mixed week for Australian higher education – a good result in one area followed by a not-so-good result in another. In the good area, it was reported in The Australian Higher Education section that the “quality and depth of university research has...

07 Sep Confessions of a business leader entering higher education management

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By David Wright HECG Managing Director I wasn’t sure if I wanted to take the job. I had just come from a harrowing but incredible time launching a start-up in Silicon Valley and was engaged in an ultimately successful project to turn around a university’s ailing commercial...

01 Sep How a 16th century education could prepare students for the future: HECG HIGHERED TRENDWATCH

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The poet T S Eliot once observed that when it comes to studying and analysing Shakespeare all we can hope for is to be wrong about him in a new way (Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, p2). But perhaps not, because recently we...

25 Aug Philosophy, grades and the evolution of the MOOC: HECG Highered Trendwatch

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Beginning next week MITx on edX will offer a philosophy course via a MOOC which will enable students to obtain a verified certificate and have their work “graded and commented upon by professional philosophers”. Learners from any background, anywhere in the world, “can pursue the certificate option...

19 Aug Empowering students to have more say about the future of highered: HECG Trendwatch

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Tony Featherstone asked a great question in his blog this week: “If students could swing a giant wrecking ball through Australia's university sector and rebuild it from the ground up, what would tertiary education look like?” His point in posing the query was that in all...

16 Aug Deakin University big winner in ARWU 2016 Ranking: HECG highered trendwatch

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By KYLIE COLVIN The Academic Ranking of World Universities tells a very good story for Australian university research. The number of Australian universities in the top 500 increased from 20 in 2015 to 23 this year with the inclusion of La Trobe, Western Sydney and RMIT...

11 Aug Why failure is a necessary condition of success for highered: HECG trendwatch

Creativity, HECG, Higher Education, Innovation, Research, Science, Universities by David Myton 0 Comments

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The light bulb is commonly used as an illustration to accompany articles about innovation and science (see above). It is a universally recognised symbol of discovery – the a-ah! moment when the researcher/inventor finally finds the big breakthrough or cracks a hitherto unsolvable problem. A light...

04 Aug How universities can help to construct the future: HECG highered trendwatch

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Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel is proving to be one of the country’s most stimulating thinkers. This entrepreneur, engineer, neuroscientist and educator has a way with words that enables him to talk about complex issues in an engaging manner. He makes the problems and...

28 Jul Why in this new world the old ways of highered just won’t cut it: HECG Trendwatch

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There used to be at least a couple of ways you could make it in this world besides being born rich and lucky. The Beatles became “the toppermost of the poppermost” not by chance, but by unconsciously following what Malcolm Gladwell called the 10,000 hour...

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14 Sep How universities can work with their communities to build a better future for all

09 Sep From research glory to a story of university drop-outs: HECG HIGHERED TRENDWATCH

07 Sep Confessions of a business leader entering higher education management

01 Sep How a 16th century education could prepare students for the future: HECG HIGHERED TRENDWATCH

25 Aug Philosophy, grades and the evolution of the MOOC: HECG Highered Trendwatch

19 Aug Empowering students to have more say about the future of highered: HECG Trendwatch

16 Aug Deakin University big winner in ARWU 2016 Ranking: HECG highered trendwatch

11 Aug Why failure is a necessary condition of success for highered: HECG trendwatch

04 Aug How universities can help to construct the future: HECG highered trendwatch

28 Jul Why in this new world the old ways of highered just won’t cut it: HECG Trendwatch

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