Robyn McGuiggan is the Deputy Vice Chancellor for Global Strategy & Engagement at James Cook University. JCU, which has campuses in Townsville, Cairns, Singapore and Brisbane, has entered into a 3-year collaborative partnership with the North Queensland Cowboys, a rugby league team based in Townsville.

It’s a common move for Year 12 students to take easier mathematics courses in order to maximise their ATAR.

Now an expert from the University of Sydney warns this practice could become commonplace in English thanks to the reforms of the New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus.

Professor Jim Mienczakowski is the pro vice-chancellor, president and chief executive of Curtin Malaysia, a regional campus of the Perth university.

A cohort of nearly 100 architecture and design students and academics from Curtin recently visited the Malaysian campus, at Sarawak in Borneo, as part of a wider plan to internationalise courses through international study tours, internships, collaborations and partnerships.

Isuru Wanasinghe, the founder of Life is Yellow, says he directs his ideas at education because “the way that we deliver education could be so much better and it's so far behind.”

Riley Batchelor, EduGrowth chief executive, says start-ups could enhance education, and make a lot of money while they’re at it.

Monash University vice-chancellor professor Margaret Gardner is to be the next chair of Universities Australia.

Dr Frederic Gilbert is a philosopher and ethicist in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania. He has been studying the positive and negative effects of implantable brain technologies, which are used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer's, as well as some mental illnesses.

Most with a smartphone receive push notifications, whether they be for Facebook notifications, news alerts or even messages from dating apps.

And according to Brent Stafford, director of the Asia Pacific branch of HERE – a map software developing company – universities could use similar technology to tell students when to leave home for class.

As a partnership between the New South Wales’s 11 universities and TAFE NSW, the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship has united these factions in their quest to produce innovative graduates.

Dr Daniel Skorich is a psychology researcher at the University of Queensland. He has been researching autism spectrum disorders and has published a paper that shows the relationship between clusters of social interaction characteristics that were previously thought to be unconnected.