Articles from the Pilbara team on higher education costs, margins, benchmarks, budgeting and AI.
128 articles
Professor William Massy
Professor William Massy of Stanford University recently interviewed around 50 individuals at several higher education institutions across Australia to better understand what academics and…
Michael Gerding
The following is a simple example of the type of data that is normally hidden, not purposefully, but rather because it’s simply not captured for easy reporting and analysis. This is from our…
Adam Gallard
A common issue faced by universities around the globe is improving the retention of existing students. How much should be invested in retaining students? At what point is more money being spent than…
Lea Patterson
Universities are constantly jugging resources – research often brings the rankings and brand while teaching brings the bulk of the predictable revenue. Things will get tougher in Australia under a…
Lea Patterson
We want to provide a series of articles explaining how you can actually use the outputs of the models to manage your universities. This article was written by Michelle Brooke and looks at the Whale…
Lea Patterson
It is not uncommon for schools to receive pressure to address their low enrollment courses (units). They are told that they shouldn’t be running courses with fewer than, say, ten students in them…
Professor William Massy
The Problem How can a university allocate its resources, and especially its unrestricted funds, to best serve the academic mission while ensuring financial sustainability? Academic and financial…
Lea Patterson
Bill Gates recently presented at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Annual Meeting, where he spoke about America’s greatest asset being the Higher Education…
Lea Patterson
In Flanders the recently formed coalition government has decided to cut the higher education budget by 5% and has given the universities two options to absorb this cut: reduce your operating budget…
Lea Patterson
There are a lot of articles, analysis and even a high profile documentary discussing the current problems with higher education, in particular the rapidly rising tuition, reduction in Government…
