Media & Opinion Pieces
Business Deans Issue Declaration on Climate Action
Context There is scientific consensus about the need for urgent action to rapidly reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, if not before. Through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change the international community is coordinating a range of measures including financing for adaptation, market and non-market mechanisms, and reporting approaches with the aim of reducing
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Immediate past ABDC President, David Grant, in The Australian on the future opportunities for business schools
Australia’s business schools have a lot to offer https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/australias-business-schools-have-a-lot-to-offer/news-story/eea9e584d7334e3bbc9b717849913f73 Last week I stepped down after three years as president of the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), whose member university business schools educate almost one quarter of Australia’s domestic university students and half of our international graduates. Despite the immense challenges during the pandemic, I leave
How Green is Your Business Degree?
Australian Financial Review https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/how-green-is-your-business-degree-20220127-p59roz Alexandra Cain Feb 8, 2022 Graduate business schools now routinely incorporate environmental, social and governance course material in their MBA programs, as ESG and sustainability themes become part of everyday business practice. “If sustainability is not part of your core MBA units, the degree is not relevant. It’s not an elective, it’s
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Australian Business Deans Appoint New President
Professor Keryn Chalmers has been appointed the next President of the Australian Business Deans Council, the peak body of Australia’s university business schools. Professor Chalmers has been ABDC Treasurer since 2016 and is currently Dean of the School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology. In late February, she will take over
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ABDC President David Grant in the Australian Financial Review
26 March 2021. Link: https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/like-spotify-unis-must-let-students-curate-courses-20210324-p57dle ‘Like Spotify, unis must let students curate courses’ Pivot in pedagogy Julie Hare Top: For students in Melbourne, the pandemic hastened shifts in education. Above: Girish Gupta. PHOTO: EAMON GALLAGHER When Girish Gupta moved to Melbourne in mid-2019 to take up his place in a masters of business administration degree,
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QS and ABDC release report on the future of Australian business schools
Report: The Future of Australian Business Schools In collaboration with QS, the ABDC has released a report titled The Future of Australian Business Schools. The report highlights the results of in-depth interviews with ten ABDC-member deans, and an online survey distributed to selected staff from 38 ABDC-member business schools. The report shows the incredible efforts
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Inaugural ABDC Network Award Winners announced
Winners of the Inaugural ABDC Network Awards Announced The ABDC is delighted to announce the winners of our inaugural Network Awards, which recognise and reward innovation and excellence in Australian business schools. The awards align with, and have been judged by panels from, ABDC’s professional management, international education, teaching and learning, and research networks. The
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ABDC op-ed: Act now on international students or risk the current demise becoming permanent
Opinion piece by ABDC President, David Grant, and ABDC International Education Network Deputy Chair, Peter Woods, in The Australian on 23 September 2020. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/we-need-a-new-business-plan-to-keep-overseas-students/news-story/292b4a34816196f477c100affe9a913b There is a real risk of the current decline in international education in Australia becoming permanent unless we boost Australia’s appeal as an international education destination with a long-term, national, co-ordinated
Media Release: Changes in International Student Visas Welcomed as a Good Start
Australian university business schools, who graduate just under half of the country’s international university students, welcome the Federal Government’s changes to international student visas. The President of the Australian Business Deans Council, Professor David Grant, says the visa changes send an important signal to current international students. ‘They demonstrate how much Australia values the personal,
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