The gulf between academia and the construction industry needs to be addressed for the sector to capitalise on the expert knowledge universities provide, writes Martin Loosemoore.
UNSW has launched a 10-year strategy to position itself as Australia’s global university. The strategy is backed by a new Deloitte Access Economics report into UNSW's contribution to the economy.
Universities must remain non-partisan in order to avoid perverting the intent of the public dollars that underwrite them, write Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters.
For too long, the debate about Australian higher-education has been fixated on who pays for what, when and how. We need to pay as much attention to intellectual outcomes as we do to financial ones, writes Jenny Stewart.
You can't create a one-size-fits-all formula for research impact. Best instead to provide environments in which creativity and innovation can flourish, writes Les Field.
A global MOOC league table would be the ultimate in crowd sourced intelligence on teaching in higher education, write Sean Gallagher and Geoffrey Garrett.
