February 2024

Leaders’ reactions to the Accord final report

Live from the foyer of the UA Solutions Summit in Canberra, this special episode shares immediate reactions from the nation’s leaders about what is in the final report of the Accord. Hear reactions from Vice Chancellors Deb Terry, Renee Leon, Chris Moran, Clare Pollock, Simon Biggs, Theo Farrell, and Alex Zelinsky from UQ, CSU, UNE, WSU, JCU, La Trobe and Newcastle.
And hear views from other sector leaders including Luke Sheehy CEO of UA, its former chair John Dewar, commentator Andrew Norton, and sector experts Nicola Kresp, Ben Hallett, Nadine Zacharias, and Ant Bagshaw from OES, Vygo, Equity by Design and L.E.K. Consulting in a comprehensive download of instand reactions within two days of the report’s release live from Canberra.
There will be many reactions shared over the days and weeks ahead but this is the first and most comprehensive overview of what the sector thinks of the Accord.

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Uni might not be the best Year 13 option

In this podcast chief executive of Year 13 Will Stubley joins Melbourne Business School chief learning innovation officer Dr Nora Koslowski and Martin Betts in the HEDx studio to discuss alternative options to the traditional Year 12 to university pipeline. With the skills the Australian economy needs changing, how can universities keep up to deliver education that is relevant to those changes?

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2024 Changing Higher Education for Good Conference, March 21

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Why are UK universities failing financially?

Insights into the why, how and who of impending UK university financial failures and what leaders and governments might do about it. Do different is David Maguire’s motto.

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How unwelcoming are our universities?

Many staff and students in universities around the world talk fondly of how university transformed their lives. Many do so from a position of having had it relatively good in the first place. There is a groundswell of global concern with making higher education more easily accessible to all in society in all countries. This requires coordinated action in funding systems, financial aid, institutional leadership, and in the underlying culture and how welcoming it is to all students.

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Cate Gilpin and Mohamed Omer

Cate Gilpin Coordinator of Welcoming Universities and Mohamed Omer formerly the University of Melbourne People of Colour Department Officer, share their experiences of what it feels like to be a person of colour on campuses of Australian universities. As O Week is underway across all universities, and we celebrate how welcoming we think and promote that they are, does this hold true for all the diverse students we need and who need us? And what can leaders, institutions and groups like Welcoming Universities do to improve how we do?