By DAVID MYTON Australia’s universities will be extra busy these next few months as they get down to work on developing new transparent and consistent student admissions requirements due to be put in place and operating from August onwards. They will be working from a new admissions transparency...
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 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...
By DAVID MYTON If you see a young person anywhere in the vast expanses of Western Sydney, perhaps on a bus or train, eyes locked on their digital device of choice, chances are they are not engaged in some social media exchange or playing a game. Instead,...
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”...
An interesting view on innovation in higher education came recently from Fernando León Garcia, president of the CETYS University system in Mexico, which hosted an International Seminar on Innovation in Higher Education. “It’s about how you teach, how you develop a person, and if you do it differently,...
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...
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...