A brighter NDIS

The NDIS was designed as a nation-building reform and to preserve that vision, it must evolve to improve outcomes and control ballooning costs.

How students use – and abuse – AI

A survey of the ways students are using AI offers clues for how universities can integrate it into their teaching regimes without undermining academic credibility.

Where have all the students gone?

After decades of growth, an increase in fees, the influx of foreign students and the growing threat of AI to knowledge jobs have seen a fall in domestic students enrolling in university courses.

Universities have lost their way

If there is any way out of the present University crisis, it it unlikely to come from current university leaders, who have shown little capacity to manage complex change.

Cognitive economics

A world-first economics Institute at UNSW Sydney will investigate how human reasoning influences financial and other decision making, helping people to make better economic choices.

Teaching the teachers

Collaborative mentoring helps educators keep learning and reminds them why they chose to teach in the first place.

Assessing communication skills in the age of AI

In the age of AI, communication is changing, but effective human communication skills are more important than ever.

Playaway

Children learn about the world through play, helping them to build creativity and independence, but once children start school, it tends to be forgotten as the emphasis shifts to formal learning.

Student insights inform UNSW review

The inaugural Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching Symposium, held at UNSW, explored data-driven approaches to enhancing the student experience and learning across Australia.

Fixing our universities

Australia’s universities need a major overhaul to become institutions that both attract, educate and enable students and academics and drive the intellectual endeavour of our nation.

University protest clampdown

Australia’s major universities have imposed new restrictions on campus protests after a raft of anti-Israel demonstrations , so what does this mean for students, staff and democracy?

Who shapes education?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton began his election campaign with fresh criticism of Australia’s educational curricula, but who actually decides what is taught in the nation’s schools?