Higher Education Whisperer

ANU College of Systems & Society Showcase,  Photo by Tom Worthington CC-BY 21 October 2025 Professor Roy Green reviewed the new Acton In...

Somehow, at some time, I enrolled in CICADA's online course " Space Foundations for Elevate 2025 ". This is introductory start...

At Singapore FinTech Festival 2022 The  Singapore Fintech Festival is now accepting free registrations from academics. This is a very big e...

  Greetings from the Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) meeting at the Canberra Innovation Network. Dr Charl...

Creative Connect Panel at CBRIN: Lucy Sugerman, Elvis Gleeson, Emma Laverty, & Owen Walter Greetings from Canberra Innovation Network, w...

Craig Davis, Andrew McCallum, Mandy Snashall, & Petr Adamek Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network, where an . auDA panel is di...

Tom Worthington at ANU Coffee Grounds Cafe. Photo by Tom Worthington CC-BY 2022 Greetings from the Coffee Grounds Cafe, at the Australian Na...

In an opinion piece, astrophysicist and ANU VC, Brian Schmidt urged that " Research in Australia’s universities should be driven by cur...

Greetings from the Innovation ACT pitch night at the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN). This is a competition for teams of Australian Nat...

Automed Battery Powered Medication Delivery Greetings from First Wednesday Connect at the the Canberra Innovation Network  (CBRIN). This wa...

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

This week I attended a presentation from an early career academic on the challenges of having a family and a research career, even before CO...

Today I attended the monthly Innovators Lunch at the Eighteen04 Co-working Space in Newcastle. There were about a dozen people interested i...

InnovationACT 2019 starts Tuesday in Canberra, with a Team Hunt . This is a ten-week entrepreneurship program, for teams of two to five ...

While I have been looking at how to do, and teach innovation for several years, it was only this month I discovered there were formal standa...

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) is supporting a new reality TV show " Game Changers ". 24 contestants are required for 10...

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has announced it will operate the Brisbane based River City Labs (RCL) Innovation Accelerator and St...

Greetings from the ANU Social Enterprise Bootcamp , at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. This is hosted by the ANU Tech...

The Australian National University (ANU) runs the ANU TechLauncher program, where teams of computer science and engineering s...

The Australian Parliament is holding an inquiry into funding Australia’s research . Submissions are due by 30 June 2018. I suggest governmen...