Rosalind De Sailly

Photo taken in Yogyakarta, Indonesia With increasing restrictions on foreign migration impacting on international student numbers on campuses of universities in Australia, Canada and the UK, institutions in those countries are increasing their offshore operations to maintain the international student numbers that are so important for the universities' internationalisation, standing, and balance sheets. Indonesia opened up to wholly-owned foreign branch campuses in 2019, and many institutions are now planning to operate transnational education and research in that country, following the trailblazer Monash Indonesia, which was set up during the pandemic. Western Sydney University and a campus partnership between Lancaster University,…

From 2020 I have been talking with leaders about their responses to the pandemic. Our 2020 series had an unexpected reprise in 2021, as anticipation of a New Normal turned into ongoing need for resilience. Now we have entered in our third year of living with COVID-19, we reflect on what we have learned about leadership in a pandemic. Thinking back to Shanghai, 2020 Fosun Foundation, Shanghai February 2020 In Shanghai during the lunar new year 2020, I saw surreal scenes of one of the world’s most dynamic cities in a COVID-stasis. Returning on the last direct Qantas flight to…