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Professor Pascale Quester | The Australian: Much has been written this year regarding the havoc COVID-19 is wreaking on Australia’s higher education sector, as well as the plight brought on our universities by the travel bans and sudden disappearance of international cohorts who have sustained them for decades.

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Podcast: HEDx Episode 5

In this episode, Martin and Karl explore issues of alignment and realignment within universities. The need at this time for effective systems leadership is illustrated through an interview with Professor Aleks Subic STEM DVC and VP of Digital Innovation at RMIT who makes a call for innovation in partnerships.

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Podcast: HEDx Episode 4

This episode covers the needs and capability of the higher education sector to revise strategy and Professor Betts talks with VP of Strategy and Development at Latrobe University Natalie McDonald.

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Podcast: HEDx Episode 3

This episode steps into the world of the university student, and contrasts the shift in higher education experience from North America to Australia, and from 2019 – 2020.

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Podcast: HEDx Episode 2

On this episode Professor Betts and Karl Treacher explore leadership in higher education and interview one of Australia’s longest serving leaders in the sector, former VC from QUT and former RMIT Chancellor Dennis Gibson. Subscribe and tune in for new episodes weekly.

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Home alone: a higher education experience?

One of the first impacts of a coronavirus pandemic being declared was the immediate closure of Australian international borders, coming soon after the Lunar New Year. It came when so many of the international students planning to come to Australia in 2020 were taking their chance to visit their families and embrace their culture in their homelands.

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