Professor Nick Klomp VC of CQU and President of the Regional University Network tells the story of the development of the only dual-sector institution in Queensland from a regional base in Rockhampton with a physical and virtual footprint around Australia and beyond.  He argues ...

Traditionally, competition between universities around the world has been based on history and achievements measured by conventional metrics. When Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Stanford dominate the top places again in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Rankings, it illustrates the ...

Associate Professor Jack Wang of UQ was Australian University Teacher of the Year in 2020 outlines seven phases of teaching innovation in Australian universities. He believes universities have left us in "no mans land" as students decline to join staff in ...

Teachers often argue that they learn most when they teach something to others. This seemed to go with the maxim that as a teacher you needed to be ahead of your students, but only by an hour or so, in having ...

Ian Dunn, provost of Coventry University joins HEDx to share the secrets of success of the UK's top younger university for graduate career prospects. In today's podcast, Ian discusses how the UK university has gained a global reputation for innovation ...

Skunkworks was the term given to a secret, small team of R&D engineers at Lockheed Corp in 1943 tasked with finding breakthrough innovations in jet fighter technology, in the heat of battle. They generated a new design in a month ...

Duncan Maskell VC of Melbourne University shares his passion for the public good purpose of our universities and his thanks for the commitment of his staff to keeping the university going as he enters the fifth year of his tenure at ...

Now feels like a time of flux and re-examination of purpose in global universities. In the US, national political moves towards university loan forgiveness is occurring as fees rise, enrolments fall and the value of higher education is questioned. And adding ...

University of Surrey, UK vice chancellor and President Max Lu shares his experiences of putting in place a transitionary three-year strategy responding to the combination of Brexit and pandemic recovery. The strategy focuses on addressing the student experience, increasing research ...

Professor Renee Leon reflects on her first year as vice chancellor at Charles Sturt University by contrasting leadership practices and culture between universities and the public service.  She talks about how what she has learnt from the public service can be ...