Education
Capitalising on the `Blue Tech’ opportunity
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The Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector is going through digital disruption. The sector – particularly government-owned TAFEs – is responsible for training and re-training people across a range of industries. Many of those industries are being completely transformed…
Cisco helps connect 8,000 kids in New Zealand with well-being workshops
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Technology can offer a platform to enable human connection that can impact people’s lives in a real way. Cisco aims to positively impact one billion lives by 2025, to make a difference. In New Zealand, 8,000 children connected from schools across the country as Cisco hosted a live ‘virtual’ creative…
Digital Industries Summit – Education Track
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Different industry sectors are being disrupted by technology at different rates. This has been explored at length in a seminal piece of primary research by Cisco titled The Digital Vortex. The Digital Industries Summit – held as part of Cisco Live Melbourne – was intended to get below the surface…
Universities Driving Global Innovation Ecosystems | Cisco’s Higher Education Study Tour to Germany and the UK
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Universities Driving Global Innovation Ecosystems Cisco’s Higher Education Study Tour to Germany and the UK Just a few years ago the term `digital disruption in higher education’ tended to be synonymous with flipped classrooms and Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOCs). However, in 2019 disruption…
Fostering the next-generation of innovators and problem-solvers
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Cisco thingQbator was conceived as a Cisco India CSR initiative to students build digital skills through learning by doing. The key objectives being democratize innovation by building spaces and communities in colleges to foster innovation. Most of all, we wanted to challenge young minds to find…
Securing Australia’s Education Institutions
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Securing Australia’s Education Institutions The state of cyber readiness in the Australian education sector By Steve Moros, Director of Cybersecurity, Cisco Australia and New Zealand Universities and TAFE institutions have a target on their back when it comes to cyber security. While it could…
Industry and university partnerships set to reshape Australia’s digital future
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Australia is far ahead of the pack on most measures of digital readiness. To continue pushing the digital boundaries, the country’s universities must deepen partnerships with industry players, especially technology companies. Australia is well placed to reap the benefits of digitization, according…
New Zealand universities back micro-credentials as skills gap shortage grows in cybersecurity
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New Zealand universities back micro-credentials as skills gap shortage grows in cybersecurity Global IT heavyweight, Cisco, is set to lead the growing cybersecurity skills gap shortage in New Zealand with early support from the tertiary sector and industry bodies. Research released in…