Education

Cisco helps connect 8,000 kids in New Zealand with well-being workshops

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…

July 18, 2019

EDUCATION

Digital Industries Summit – Education Track

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…

July 16, 2019

EDUCATION

Universities Driving Global Innovation Ecosystems | Cisco’s Higher Education Study Tour to Germany and the UK

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…

July 11, 2019

INNOVATION

Fostering the next-generation of innovators and problem-solvers

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…

July 10, 2019

EDUCATION

Securing Australia’s Education Institutions

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…

March 25, 2019

EDUCATION

Industry and university partnerships set to reshape Australia’s digital future

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…

September 25, 2018

EDUCATION

New Zealand universities back micro-credentials as skills gap shortage grows in cybersecurity

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…