Was surprised there was no Wikipedia entry about #asbestos in play sand in Australia, closing 70 schools. So I added a couple of references. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroph...

Greetings from day two of Singapore Fintech Festival 2025. I am here to look at skills gaps, so this session on "FinTech Talent Blueprint:" looks relevant. However, so far just platitudes from the panel. #SFF2025 blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/sing...

The most interesting booth at Singapore FinTech Festival was the Talent Pavilion. This has people from the universities, Polytechnics, training companies & accreditation bodies. Perhaps Australia should turn do some of our TAFEs & unis into Singapore style polytechnics.

Greetings from Singapore FinTech Festival. The Bahrain booth has the best free coffee at the show. They even offer a flat white, handy for those in the nearby Australian booth. #TeamBahrain

Greetings from the Insights Forum roundtable on "AI Governance" in Singapore. I get the impression previous forums would have focused on blockchain and before that whatever tech was trendy. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/ai-g...

Greetings from the Singapore Clay Festival, where I bumped into the Present (of Singapore). www.singaporeclayfest.com

Greetings from EDUtech Asia in Singapore. The conference venus takes some getting used to for those familiar with academic events, as everyone wears light up headphones, silent disco style. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/edut...

In Singapore for EDUtech Asia, I came across the EcoTrain Educational Centre for children. Outside I bumped into Associate Professor Adrian Loo, from National University of Singapore, who explained the #Microforest, being established. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/ecot...

Happy to meet up with people around #EDUtechAsia 2025 & Singapore FinTech Festival, over the next 2 weeks. I have no presentations planned, but volunteered to fill in, if needed chairing or speaking & happy to speak elsewhere. #SFF2025 blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/edut...

Greetings from the INDONESIA AUSTRALIA INVESTMENT FORUM 2025 at the Commonwealth Club in Canberra. In his keynote address the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia suggested the two countries could collaborate on the processing of rare earth minerals.

Greetings from the Boomalli Aboriginal Art Gallery at the opening of the Bronwyn Bancroft retrospective exhibition in Sydney. boomalli.com.au/exhibitions/

Greetings from The Australian National University, where a lecture theatre has been repurposed as a pitch arena. This form of experiential learning is one way to combat #AIcheating. Teams of students pitch an app they developed. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/hack...

Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network where Ashley Marsh-Croft is running an Industrial Design Capacity Building and PVP Info Session. There is about $100,000 available in vouchers for startups to get help with their prototypes. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/indu...

I find only about one in twenty BlueSky posts of interest. Many others seem to be about sport, or politics, in the USA. At least that is what I assume they are about, as there is so little context it is hard to tell. There is criticism of people I have never heard of & acronyms I don't know.

Greetings from RegNet AI Series, with Deborah Lupton at The Australian National University. Earlier Ethan Smith talked on AI image generation at Leonardo.Ai. The theme emerging is the nature of creativity and what is seen as a worthwhile human skill. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/ai-a...

Greetings from Canberra Innovation Network where I taking part in the Pearcey Foundation awards night. The ACT Chief Minister is arriving shortly. AI CoLab are going to help us prepare advice for the minister on homelessness. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/impr...

In shock announcement, JIMMY BARNES proposed as next ANU Vice Chancellor." ;-) lnkd.in/p/gKK74Net

Greetings from the Australian National University, where Dr. Katy Gero, is speaking on "How do we get the benefits of LLMs without causing long-term harm?". They found a human marker graded AI generated essays higher than those from humans. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/can-...

The Australian Government yesterday announced it will spend $1.7bn on a fleet of several dozen Ghost Shark robot submarines, to be made in Sydney by US company Anduril Industries. I talked about this on ABC Radio Nightlife with Philip Clark this morning. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/09/desi...

Greetings from Dr Fiona Scotney's Advanced LinkedIn Workshop at #ATEM2025 hosted by ANU, this week. Fiona is providing useful tips, such as writing as you talk and keep in mind you are promoting your team and organisation, not just yourself. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/adva...

In webinar on Instructure's #IgniteAI. Today's topic is how to use AI to improve student discussions and feedback. They are being modest in the claims for what AI can do for education, rather than saying this can replace the teacher. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/ai-f...

Greetings from the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE), hosting Canberra Innovation Network's First Wednesday pitch night. There is a theme of enterprises supporting social connection this evening. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/tech...

Greetings from the inaugural IDEATE Summit at the Australian National University. The VC opened with a St Crispin's Day type speech. She talked passionately about the difficulties of opening university up to a more diverse range of students & staff. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/idea...

Greetings from the Australian National University , where Dr. Nils Herrmann is talking on diamond microchips for quantum computers, doing #QuantumAI. The aim is a computer rugged enough to be used in an aircraft, with obvious military applications. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/quan...

Thanks to Canberra Institute of Technology for a tour of their new building. I studied Audio-Visual Video for Training, at the then ACT TAFE,in 1989. We used tape & monochrome studio cameras, so It was a revelation to see the new digital studios. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/new-...

Greetings from the ANU McCusker Institute in Canberra. Dr Katherine Trebeck is speaking on Shared Prosperity. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/mccu...

Greetings from the Canberra Bowling Club, where I am attending an author talk by Catherine McCullagh. The event is hosted by Fearless Women for book week. Catherine writes alternate history novels about strong women around WWII. blog.tomw.net.au

Adelaide University, formed from the universities of South Australia & Adelaide, is promoting it's #elearning in Sydney, near USydney, UTS & Notre Dame. Would those a short bus ride from established universities choose to study online a 1,000km away? blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/new-...

If you are going to remote areas where you could become lost or stranded, don't depend on your cell phone working. Take sensible precautions: tell someone where you are going & will be back, don't go alone, take food, clothing & shelter. Consider a radio beacon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergen...

Greetings from the AI Colab at the ANU College of Systems & Society in Canberra, for "From red tape to algorithm: Reimagining the public service in an AI age". In the first group activity we imagined interplanetary travel with a punk ascetic. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/rebu...

Last night I attended the Sydney #Linux User Group (SLUG) at Google Sydney. I haven't been to Slug for years, but nothing changed. The same pizza & soda, same talk topic made entirely of acronyms and attendees who look like extras from Big Bang Theory. ;-) blog.tomw.net.au/2025/07/user...

Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) where Tim Turner, is running a meeting on "How can the ACT Government use #AI to improve #government services?" organised by the Pearcey Foundation. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/how-...

HIR at the New Theatre in Sydney is hard work for the audience but worthwhile. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/07/hir-...

Greetings from the 10th anniversary Canberra Innovation Network, First Wednesday Connect. One of the entrepreneurs is "bin chicken" who has an instrumented bin here. The system has just been purchased by Canberra Institute of Technology. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/ten-...

Looking forward to Tech in Gov 2025, 12 & 13 August in Canberra. i.snoball.it/p/a5GzJ/f/3 Not speaking, just wandering around, to make sense of cybersecurity, AI, & digital transformation. Previously I talked on Sustainable Computing. #TechinGov blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/tech...

The former Estonian ambassador has called for joint industry government cyber exercises in Australia & capture the flag exercises for children. She was the keynote speaker at the #ACSTechUplift25 this morning in Canberra. #CyberSecurity blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/tech...

Greetings from Launch on Northbourne, UNSW's startup centre in Canberra. They are hosting a Canberra Cyber Hub panel on research collaboration s with industry. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/cybe...

Greetings from University of Canberra, where I am attending WIL Australia's "Creative, Modern and Celebrating #WIL". . Taking us through the reality behind the hype about AI and jobs. #WorkIntegratedLearning blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/ai-a...

I just registered for #TechUplift25: Empowering #CyberSecurity through #AI-driven Capability, by Australian Computer Society, in Canberra, 26 June. Ironically, this morning #Facebook blocked my access, requiring me to prove I was human. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/tech...

Greetings from day 2 of "The Evolving University" stream of EDUtech Australia. Hot topics are international students &AI. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/inte...

Greetings from the exhibition floor of EDUtech Australia 2025 at the Sydney Convention Center. I dropped into the Australian Computer Society stand. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/educ...

Greetings from #WorldProductDay, Canberra. This is the second time today I turned up to an event having no idea what it was. This one is about #accessibility. There is pizza and post it notes, so I feel at home. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/05/worl...

"Bluesky is Twitter for Democrats". That is how I explained it in a family discussion recently. That encapsulates what is good, & bad about it. ;-)

On a whim today, I went along to the matinee of "In the next room, or the Vibrator Play" at the New Theatre in Sydney. The play, witten in 2009 by Sarah Ruhl was surprisingly thought provoking, as well as very amusing. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/05/turn...

I have suggested Transport NSW install more help points in Sydney Central Station. Last week I saw someone fall & dragged feet first up an escalator. I pressed the emergency stop, but could not find a help point to summon assistance & called Triple Zero. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/04/more...

The Singapore FinTech Festival is now accepting free registrations from academics for 2025. This is a very big event filling much of the Singapore Expo center. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/04/sing...

I will be chairing part of the Higher Education AT EduTech_Au in Sydney, 11-12 June. You can read about my previous visits and talks at #EDUtechAU. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/04/char...

In trying to look at Bluesky just now, I instead ended up at Bluey, an animated cartoon about a puppy from my home town of Brisbane. www.bluey.tv/blueys-world/

I booked for EduTech Asia 2025 in Singapore 5 to 6 November, but then realised there is another conference much closer to home: EduTECH_AU in Sydney 11 & 12 June. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/03/what...

My submission to the Australian Senate on governance of Australian unis: www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... #TESQA's powers are adequate, but they could add real-time analysis to detect misconduct. But pressing than governance is our adopting elearning to meet offshore competition. #HigherEducation