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Make it new again

• Any teacher and especially doctoral advisor knows that asking novel questions is essential for individual and institutional growth and innovation
• Yet the calcified statistical exoskeleton wrapped around Australian higher education  now yields decimal-place differences on increasingly dated ideas
• Education keeps moving, morphed by forces much larger than even the world’s biggest universities
• Time to press the RESET button, and keep inspiration moving…

Let’s make new questions

• 18 years ago, Australia asked novel questions of students and teachers (but: teachers no longer!) about student dropout intentions
• But today more stats on fewer things are no longer shifting many education needles
• The world has moved on, and it is time to ask new questions to shape the next 18 years

Get globally connected

• The world is awash with wonderful data on student engagement with effective education practices
• But data in Australia has become disconnected and isolated
• Australia has one of the globe’s most internationally porous higher education systems…
• Time to reboot, re-align, and open new innovation on higher education

Putting EDUCATION on university maps

• Creative great minds need to invest new tricks to put EDUCATION on the university agenda
• Dazzling research metrics have been stretched too far
• If we measure the same stuff, we talk the same stuff, we do the same stuff
• It is time for higher thinkers to be smart, tackle the ‘market for lemons’, and shift higher education into innovative educational places!