Higher Education Whisperer

Image generated by Google Gemini, for a pod based interplanetary transport system Greetings from the AI Colab at the Australian National Uni...

The Australian Government sponsors a  Study Australia Industry Experience Program (SAIEP), delivered by industry partners. This is for inte...

Map of Regional University Study Hubs, from Department of Education, 2024 The UK Open University found more than 50 years ago that distance...

The Digital Transformation Agency has announced  50 Australian Public Service (APS) agencies are conducting a 6-month trial of Copilot (Micr...

Australian Universities Accord Final Report , 25 February 2024 It has taken me a full day to work my way through the 44 recommendations of t...

Australian Universities Accord Final Report , 25 February 2024 Despite the export revenue from, and controversy over, international educat...

Australian Universities Accord Final Report , 25 February 2024 The Australian Universities Accord Panel, chaired by Professor Mary O’Kane,...

The Australian government has  announced  $ 128M for   4,001 STEM students with skills needed for the  AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine proje...

The Australian Government has extended study funding of indigenous students to those in urban areas, as part of a package of changes in resp...

The Australian Government has reacted remarkably quickly to the Interim Report of the Australian Universities Accord inquiry, with legislati...

Professor Mary O’Kane The Australian government has tasked Professor Mary O’Kane, and a panel of six other eminent Australians to conduct ...

Professor Maryanne Dever,  ANU Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education & Digital), delivered the keynote at the opening of EdTechPosium 2021 in ...

The FST Government Australia Digital Summit 2021 is about to get underway online from Canberra. I am going along virtually, to see what is ...

The Australian Public Service Academy  (APSA) was set up in  July 2021,  by the Australian Government, for the training of employees. I join...

The Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is considering how to measure the quality of research undertaken at a...

Dan Tehan, Australian Minister for Education, has announced an expert panel to provide advice on accelerating the commercialization of unive...

The Australian government is to build a and online microcredentials marketplace , but I am not sure it is needed. The existing  Courseseeker...

The Australian Parliament is holding an inquiry into Education in Remote and Complex Environments and wants to hear about the impact of C...

The Australian Government commissioned five reports on the  impact of remote learning on vulnerable children during the  COVID-19 emergency....