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December 2024

Vaibhav Namburi, director of AI-powered lead generation platform Smartlead.

AI sets new high for solving sales teams’ gnarly problems

Sales teams that are not using artificial intelligence (AI) to augment their efforts are being left behind as agencies and businesses increasingly rely on these tools to get an ever-harder-to-find edge in the market.

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October 2024

This is the top business school for the third year in row

University of New South Wales has been named The Australian Financial Review BOSS Best Business School for 2024, just ahead of University of Melbourne.

  • Sally Patten

August 2024

La Trobe’s pioneering model to transform healthcare

The winner of the industry engagement award used COVID and a pinch of serendipity to create a world-leading virtual medical emergency model in Melbourne.

  • Sylvia Ramsey
Professor Jane Den Hollander, Claire Field, Dr Michael Spence, Professor Brian Schmidt, Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake, Emeritus Professor Sandra Harding

The judging panel for the 2024 awards

Here are the judges for the 2024 AFR Higher Education Awards.

Swinburne University students on the job - taking part in Work Integrated Learning.  

Job-ready skills for the fast-changing workplace

The joint winners of the employability category embed career experience in study programs to give graduates an edge in the competitive job market.

  • Sian Powell
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Higher Education Award winners RMIT’s Professor Tianyi Ma, former vice chancellor of Monash University and RMIT Margaret Gardner, and Newcastle University’s vice chancellor Alex Zelinsky.

In face of disruption, unis offer scalable, powerful solutions

Universities are being disrupted, but their contribution to society is profound, as the winners of the Higher Education Awards show.

  • Julie Hare

April 2024

Stephen Fisher, the CEO of full-service media agency Hatched.

This policy has retained every mum on staff

Three months’ paid leave, six coaching lessons and $1000 for a new wardrobe – that’s what Hatched’s parents said they wanted. They got it.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Royals’ Andrew Siwka and Kristy Camarillo.

How a weekly Shark Tank challenge turned The Royals family around

Suffering high turnover and low engagement, creative agency The Royals decided to carve out a day each week dedicated to one pitch. It worked.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

August 2023

EY’s personnel speak about what it is really like to work at the firm.

EY’s ideal worker ‘is always available’. Some find that unbearable

The tension between the way the firm markets itself and the reality of working there goes some way to explaining its 37.4 per cent employee turnover.

  • Edmund Tadros

September 2022

A scaffolded approach helps students at the UNSW business school to explore and achieve.

UNSW the top-ranked business school for career prospects

Personalised programs help propel UNSW to the top of the career impact category in the inaugural AFR BOSS Best Business Schools list.

  • Therese Raft
The AFR BOSS ranking of the best business schools recognises that increasingly institutions will be measured on the experience they provide to students.

The AFR BOSS ranking of best business schools explained

There are separate indices for reputation, quality and career impact and an overall ranking. The three categories are drawn from publicly available information.

  • Professor Tim Brown and Emeritus Professor Stephen Parker
Chris Styles says he is particularly proud of UNSW Business School’s success given the challenge of providing “quality at scale.”

AFR BOSS Best Business School revealed

Victorian-based universities claim two of the top five places in the inaugural ranking of Australia’s 37 business schools.

  • Sally Patten
Edith Cowan students

Edith Cowan the top-ranked business school for quality

Perth-based university is No. 1 ranked for quality in the inaugural AFR BOSS Best Business Schools list.

  • Julie Hare
Bond University

Private universities make a mark with industry links

Vastly outnumbered by public universities, Australia’s private universities have forged strong links with their students and key industry groups.

  • Mark Eggleton
Rachael Haynes

Flexible approach an advantage for regional universities

Regional universities specialise in meeting industry needs and offering courses that combine flexibility with responsiveness to global trends.

  • Mark Eggleton
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Bond university students Grace Knight and Emily Krogsboel enjoy the great outdoors.

Surf, sun and study just the ticket for international students

University rankings aside, Australian beaches and lifestyle are  strong drawcards for international students.

  • Nina Hendy
Carla Dias Wadewitz, the director of Flinders University’s new MBA, sees students with management experience and those without it learning from each other.

Experience no bar as students rush to join upskilling frenzy

Management work experience is not a prerequisite for learning and many cohorts consist of a mix of upwardly mobile mid-career managers and fresh graduates.

  • Therese Raft
The pandemic created the need for health management skills as mass vaccination hubs opened and social distancing and mask-wearing changed people’s behaviours.

What’s hot in postgraduate business courses

Business schools are responding to the changes in the job market induced by the pandemic, hybrid work arrangements and the rapid onset of the digital economy.

  • Sian Powell
Melbourne Business School is No.1 in Reputation in the AFR BOSS ranking of Best Business Schools 2022.

Melbourne University the top-ranked business school for reputation

The list of the best business schools by reputation was dominated by the Go8 universities.

  • Sian Powell

How online short courses are developing the next crop of executives

The nation’s universities are brimming with short courses aimed squarely at the executive sector.

  • Nina Hendy

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