2012

• Steven Schwartz interviews Joseph Nye on the meaning of soft power
  The launch of Macquarie University’s Soft Power and Advocacy Research Centre (SPARC) on ABC Big Ideas
• Employability skills – where is wisdom?
  When preparing students for an uncertain future, universities need to add wisdom to the list of skills they develop in them, says Steven Schwartz
• Grit necessary for talent to shine (By Steven Schwartz)
  Students gain more from mistakes, blind alleys and dead ends than they do from success
• Fines for universities slammed by admissions don Professor Steven Schwartz
  Schools are not producing “recruitable” teenagers in moves to get more working class students into universities
• Get back in the saddle (Times Higher feature By Steven Schwartz)
  Steven Schwartz argues that students gain more from blind alleys than from victory processions, as failure engenders the ‘true grit’ essential to achievement in the real world
• Virtual learning curve
  There’s a seismic shift taking place in higher educaton, writes Steven Schwartz in The Financial Review
• Universities leading the way with education technology (Guardian Higher Education Network)
  Steven Schwartz praises the early adopters of learning technologies, and asks what the rest of the sector needs to do to catch up with them
• Unis score poorly on competition (By Steven Schwartz)
  If competition took place on a more level playing field the winners would be students and the public
• The Scholarly Web, Times Higher Education
  Professor Steven Schwartz explains how Dickens can aid our understanding of higher education
• Radio National Life Matters with Steven Schwartz and Simon Marginson
  Natasha Mitchell asks – The future of higher learning: how do you nurture intellectual virtue in a market driven system?
• Ebooks: the format of the academic future (By Steven Schwartz)
  Steven Schwartz explains why more universities should start publishing ebooks and how they benefit students
• It adds up: education enriches us all (By Steven Schwartz, Financial Review)
  Expanding student numbers has not, in any measurable way, diluted the value of university degrees.
• Steven Schwartz – Sunday Profile ABC Radio National
  Host Richard Aedy says Steven Schwartz is still fizzing with ideas for the future of Macquarie University.
• Self-interest makes the world go round (Australian Financial Review)
  Vested interests aren’t resticted to the rich, writes Steven Schwartz
• Has Knight arrived in time to rescue Australia's academy?
  Simon Baker on the hoped-for impact of reforms spurred by an official review of student visa policies
• ABC Big Ideas – IQ2 Debate featuring Macquarie University VC Steven Schwartz
  Debate proposition: ‘democracy is failing the planet’

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