Work-integrated learning (WIL) can significantly benefit student employability, institutional graduate outcomes, and quality talent pipelines. However, there are many caveats to this, such as course-wide flexible and scaffolded design, sustained external partner engagement, adequate resourcing, and ongoing evaluation that informs quality,…

How is academic work accomplished within a curriculum that has been established through a digital education infrastructure, and what, exactly, does an academic member of staff do within this digital context? Reflecting on the empirical findings of a three-year ethnography of a distributed medical education curriculum delivered across two…

This paper explores the different epistemologies that define the Professional Doctorate, paying close attention to how Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) doing a Professional Doctorate reconcile academic and professional knowledge. Through a narrative exploration of the literature published since the first UK Professional Doctorates were awarded in…

Much research has investigated international graduate employability in home "or" host countries. However, limited studies have accounted for such employability "across" the home and the host. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, this paper critically examined the first author's narrative of his employment…

The need to include indigenous perspectives in curricula is a challenge facing education internationally. In the context of higher education, decolonising practices and processes are the responsibility not just of institutions but also individual academics. Despite individual aspirations to decolonise teaching, it can be difficult to know where to…

The number of international academics in universities has increased steadily over the past decades, driven by universities' internationalisation strategies to enhance their competitiveness in the global market and the academics' desire for career advancement through broadening global experiences, international networks and collaboration. Despite…

This article is grounded on an exploratory inquiry to explain the low rates of female academics in Ghana's higher education sector and its implication for higher education policy and practice. Though our article shows the continued presence of institutional barriers, the evidence suggests that these are strongly fortified by dispositional (women's…

The crisis surrounding COVID-19 has unsettled some of the key assumptions underlying the dominant understanding of internationalization in Australian higher education. In this paper, I discuss how Australian universities have talked about their recovery from the commercial turbulence, and what this reveals about the hegemonic construction of…

During the pandemic in the United States and United Kingdom (unlike East Asia and parts of Europe), high individualisation and low social responsibility have been associated with an exceptional death toll, the undermining of higher education institutions in marketised systems, and continuing risks to the health of students and staff.

In recent years, the pressure to publish has increasingly been filtering down into doctoral education. Under a regime of increased performativity, publishing in peer-reviewed journals during candidature has gradually become a minimum requirement for any newly minted doctoral-holder seeking to secure an academic position. In this paper, we analyse…

Studying higher education in 2020 has confirmed the difficulty of foresight analysis and need for courageous redesign of education fundamentals. This paper discusses the shift made by Tsinghua University into full online provision and considers broader implications for higher education. It articulates the emergence of global online higher…

COVID-19 has exerted its great impact on higher education worldwide. China has been particularly associated with the pandemic. Chinese universities are proactive in curbing coronavirus. Their swift and effective response deserves to be recognized by the international community so that everyone can learn from the experience.

In this reflective piece, I consider the degree to which Australian universities have become financially dependent on income from foreign students, the reasons for that dependence, the risks it poses and the potential consequences now that COVID-19 has undermined this revenue stream.

In April 2019, educators from around Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia came together to share their experiences of teaching Indigenous public health. The inaugural International Indigenous Public Health Education Leadership Symposium provided an opportunity to (i) discuss the range of challenges of this work, and (ii) to affirm a collective…

Recent focus on graduate employability has exposed the inadequacies of work preparation for science students, who need an employability toolkit to navigate the modern work landscape. An established mechanism to develop students' employment awareness is Work Integrated Learning (WIL), but Australian mathematics and science students participate in…