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...

The Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee released an Interim report on the Quality of governance at Australian higher educa...

Greetings from the   InnovationACT: Research to Impact Pane l at the Canberra Innovation Network. Damith Herath nominated a coin operated ro...

In a speech to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering, Professor Brian Schmidt, Australian National University...

   Australian Universities Accord Interim Report The  Australian Universities Accord Panel, chaired by Professor Mary O’Kane, has released a...

  Submissions Report, Universities Accord, Nous Group, 21 February 2023 The Australian Universities Accord Panel , chaired by Professor Mary...

The Australian Universities Accord Panel, chaired by Professor Mary O’Kane, has released a 44 page  Discussion Paper . I submitted Some Thou...

Greetings from the Australian Centre on China in the World,at The Australian National University, where Rogier Creemers from  Leiden Univers...

The Higher Education Review Terms of Reference , lists seven key areas for consideration (Department of Education, 2022). Here are some thou...

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

In Rich academic, poor academic? Making an academic living in Covid times (5 August 2020), Dr Inger Mewburn, The Thesis Whisperer , discuss...

Griew, Borthwick, Barnes and Murali (2018) , have proposed a new category of teaching university for Australia, along with invigoration of t...

Browsing the shelves of the UNSW Canberra Library , I came across " How scholars trumped teachers: change without reform in universit...

A move to open access research publishing will need, I suggest, a well resourced information campaign, and a well staffed anti-fraud unit. ...

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

Yesterday the Australian Government announced the " HigherEducation Reforms — revised implementation ", which has been reported i...

A quick skim would suggest the Australian Productivity Commission's review " Shifting the Dial " (2017), into the Australian e...

Professor Imelda Whelehan , Dean of Higher Degree Research at The Australian National University (ANU) has invited staff and students to h...

Consulting company Lee Hecht Harrison have released " University for the Future: Evolutions, Revolutions and Transformations " (...