Category: Higher Education
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Starting a university in Indonesia
Indonesia is accelerating its drive to strengthen human capital and thereby better position itself economically. One component of this is inviting leading international universities to establish fully fledged campuses inside Indonesia. Monash University is the first to do so. What will success look like? Success for Indonesia as a whole, success for the higher education sector…
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Is Singapore the world’s education laboratory?
How an ageing population and slow growth is driving dramatic education reform in Singapore – with fascinating results. Governments in many countries are talking about reforming their education systems to better equip graduates seeking work and to provide business with the skilled labour force for which it cries out. Whether in Australia or Britain,…
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The ups and downs of Asia’s universities
The recent release of the Times Higher Ed rankings for Asian universities makes for interesting reading. A summary heading of the most conspicuous developments would go something like: Singapore on top, Japan slides and Southeast Asia rises. But it is worth digging deeper, as for all the heartache ranking schemes cause university administrators, they do contain…
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Visiting Gunditjmara country
Visiting Gunditjmara Country I recently returned from one of the most mind-opening trips on which I have ever been: a visit to Gunditjmara country in western Victoria (pink territory, bottom left on map). Along with nine other members of the University’s executive, I got to spend two days meeting with both elders and young people,…
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Employment, education and back to that new Adidas plant
For many years it has been widely accepted that there is a strong causal connection between additional years of formal education and likely future income. Simply put, data from around the world showed that, on average, university graduates could be expected to earn significantly more than those who did not proceed to university. That connection…
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What does a new Adidas plant have to do with the future of higher education?
Reading a story in The Economist last week about a new high tech production plant in Germany got me thinking about possible parallels in the evolution of some parts of higher education. The Adidas story is fascinating in its own right. I hadn’t realized the sports shoe industry is worth $80 billion a year; though I…
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