HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times. A regular series within HEDx is about the student experience.
Episode 8 of The AI Inflection Point - the second of two conversations on the student experience.
Brandman University went from 65% to 90% graduation rates in five years. Not by adding more services....
EP222. The tertiary system: what it looks like when it works
Episode 7 of The AI Inflection Point — the first of two conversations on connecting the dots between VET and higher education.
David Turvey, Executive Director of the Australian Tertiary Education Co...
At the HEDx Conference at UTS, Ben Roden-Cohen and Madison Piper talk with Pascale Quester, Rachel Wilson, Rachel Fitzgerald, Danny Liu, Tim Fawns and Katie Ford to ask what the future of higher educa...
Episode 6 of The AI Inflection Point — and the last of four conversations on coalitions.
The previous three episodes asked why collaborate, whether partnerships can be transformational, and whether s...
EP220. Collaborative scale: the case for working together
Episode 5 of The AI Inflection Point — the third of four conversations on coalitions.
Dan Greenstein has 35 years of data from the UK and the US. His conclusion is direct: scale is the primary hedge ...
Nothing about us, without us: Beyond the student panel.
At this year’s HEDx Conference at UTS, students weren’t just attendees- they were embedded across the program, contributing to the hosting, and...
EP219. Global partnerships: transactional or transformational?
Episode 4 of The AI Inflection Point — and the second of four conversations on coalitions.
Australian universities have been building global partnerships for decades. But have those partnerships actu...
Episode 3 of The AI Inflection Point — and the first of four conversations on coalitions.
Can universities lead the AI transformation that higher education needs — alone? The answer is no. But what "...
Episode 2 of The AI Inflection Point — six conversations recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney. The diagnosis is set. Now: what does it actually take to respond?
Lucy Marshall from the Unive...
EP216. The model is broken, and AI makes it urgent
Episode 1 of The AI Inflection Point — our six-part series recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney. This first episode sets the diagnosis: universities were designed for a student who no longer...
In this episode for Student Experience, UQ students Madison Piper and Ben Roden-Cohen sit down with Professor Kris Ryan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), for a conversation about uncertainty, AI, co...
EP215. Change has already happened. Your structures just don't know it yet
Scott Pulsipher, President of Western Governors University, and Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich, President of New State University, opened HEDx at UTS with an uncomfortable truth: institutions that waited...
EP214. Universities as builders. Not the disrupted
HEDx's largest and most ambitious event opened at University of Technology Sydney, welcoming more than 600 leaders, students and partners to two days built around one question: are we actually goi...
Aaron Driver and Neil Durant of the University of New England argue that universities should not wait to be disrupted by AI - they should lead the disruption themselves. In this episode, we explore UN...
Students with disabilities are the fastest growing equity cohort in Australian tertiary education yet they continue to experience lower satisfaction, access, success, attainment, completion and employ...
Alex Elibank-Murray of UniSC hosts a panel of colleague Leah Barclay, industry partner Tracey Whitelaw and student Callum Phillips to argue that the future of higher education may not be a classroom a...
Podbite#9 2050 Alliance and HEDx AI coalition launch
Jason Clare launches a new 2050 Alliance grouping of universities focused on students, communities and the future, HEDx joins them to define AI coalitions in Australia. George Williams ,Chair of the A...
Helen Bartlett Vice-Chancellor of University of the Sunshine Coast joins industry partner Yas Nemet of Microsoft and staff and student colleagues, They showcase a best practice example of universities...
Four weeks from the June event saw us visit Melbourne to plan our first AI innovation coalition in Australia. Catching up with partners of 5 years OES and their CEO Jon Davey was followed by visits to...
Lev Gonick CIO of ASU and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy of WSU join a HEDx event hosted by Helen Bartlett VC of University of the Sunshine Coast on employability and industry engagement. With 48 million liv...
