Sep
25
2024
When Hutchins School boys climb the steep face of a cliff or spend time entirely alone in a self-built wilderness shelter, or cook their own food over a campfire, they are building essential qualities of maturity: resilience, independence, self-reliance and flexibility. “The boys love anything outdoors and hands-on, and certainly having challenge-based activities, especially when we …read more
Sep
16
2024
Executive education gives working adults the additional skills and knowledge they need throughout their working lives, says the University of NSW’s inaugural dean of lifelong learning, Professor Nick Wailes. “We all need to be thinking about what we’re going to learn next,” he says. “It’s not a terminal journey. You don’t get to an end-point. It’s something …read more
Sep
16
2024
Rather than having a mid-career break to take a six-month or year-long executive education course, upskilling and reskilling is now considered a decades-long endeavour, spanning an entire working life and potentially consisting of multiple short courses. Executive education directors say successful executives are constantly looking to learn and understand more about their professional fields and how …read more
Sep
4
2024
Ausgrid has big plans for community batteries across its network. With 10 smaller community batteries already in place and eight larger battery installations in the works, the largest electricity distributor on Australia’s east coast is rapidly moving into energy storage. “Ausgrid is extending what has historically been seen to be a network to include storage,” says …read more
Aug
21
2024
The winners of all seven categories in the AFR Higher Education Awards 2024, which recognise and celebrate the outstanding efforts of Australian universities during the past year, have now been announced. The categories include community engagement; emerging leadership; employability; industry engagement; equity and access; research commercialisation; and teaching and learning excellence. These are the finalists in …read more
Aug
21
2024
The winners of all seven categories in the AFR Higher Education Awards 2024, which recognise and celebrate the outstanding efforts of Australian universities during the past year, have now been announced. The categories include community engagement; emerging leadership; employability; industry engagement; equity and access; research commercialisation; and teaching and learning excellence.
Aug
10
2024
Well, quite a few things, actually – from patient simulations to drudge tasks, AI can complement rather than compete with human care. Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform pharmacy practice in Australia. Already powering comprehensive pharmacy educational tools in an Australian world-first, AI can relieve pharmacists of routine administration tasks and enable detailed tracking of patients and medicines.
Jul
16
2024
Pathology tests and diagnostic imaging are a crucial part of healthcare. Test results are important for diagnosis, to track disease progression and to assess the impact of treatments, especially medicines, on the body. Pharmacists are medicine experts, with rapidly expanding expertise in identifying when medicines are unsafe, inappropriate or ineffective. Crucial to determining medicines’ safety …read more
Jun
25
2024
Danielle Handley left her comfort zone in 2022 – moving from a long-term senior manager position in the insurance industry to a brand-new role in a company expanding into healthcare. But by the time she arrived at the offices of international healthcare and health insurance company BUPA, the executive who had hired her six months before …read more
Jun
19
2024
Massive problems have beset the Snowy 2.0 pumped storage hydro program, an ambitious renewable energy project intended to become a vast reservoir of stored energy. One of the 2000-tonne tunnel-boring machines, known as Florence or Flo, recently got stuck in very hard rock and high-pressure water jets were deployed to set the machine free. Last year, …read more