...spreading the word about the value of foresight today
It was a sad day for me yesterday. I decided to withdraw from a professional doctorate in higher education after about 8 weeks. I started a tradtional PhD a while ago, but withdrew from that because of a whole range of factors, best left to the past. So, I was excited to finally make the [...]
This post is the first of a series of five on higher education futures. It’s based on the presentation I made to the Tertiary Education Management Conference in Melbourne in October, 2010, which I’ve embedded at the end of this post. What will our higher education institutions and the work they do ‘look’ like in [...]
I attended a forum last year here in Australia where there was much discussion about change in universities. I’ve been pondering it ever since, as it left me wondering about the state of strategic thinking in the higher education sector. Then I attended the Educause conference earlier this year, and listened to people who were leading [...]
I read the latest report on declining international student numbers in The Australian this week. Institutions and groups are responding by saying that new government visa regulations “threaten to disrail the industry”. The assumption here is that the industry is a given and must be protected, mainly because it is an income earner for institutions [...]
I have just been to the Association of University Administrators Conference at the University of Warwick where there was much discussion about changing academic and administrative roles in universities and higher education. The discussion about terminology for administrators is continuing, largely based at the conference about professionalism and the need to change the phrase used [...]
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