August
- Employability
- Higher Education Awards
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
- Industry Engagement
- Higher Education Awards
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
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
- Opinion
- Higher Education Awards
The judging panel for the 2024 awards
Here are the judges for the 2024 AFR Higher Education Awards.
April
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
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
August 2023
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
These executives did an MBA and started their own companies
Business schools are incubators of the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Three MBA students reveal how they were inspired to turn ideas into businesses.
- Sian Powell
How to choose the best business school for you
With so many business schools, making a decision as to where to study can be surprisingly difficult. A recent survey asked students what was important to them.
- Julie Hare