RMIT showcased at Universities Australia Solutions Summit

RMIT showcased at Universities Australia Solutions Summit

RMIT University leaders joined this year’s Universities Australia Solutions Summit in Canberra.

Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Alec Cameron and Vice-President International Layton Pike contributed to separate sessions exploring some of the sector’s most pressing issues. 

Meeting changing skills needs 

Professor Cameron chaired a panel discussion on the changing nature of skills, education and work. 

It brought together leading industry experts, including head of the OECD Centre for Skills El Iza Mohamedou, CEO of Council of Small Business Organisations Australia Skye Cappuccio, and Inspector-General of Aged Care Natalie Siegel-Brown. 

"These are rapidly changing times, and a job-for-life is in the past," Professor Cameron said at the event.  

"It’s increasingly necessary for people to return to further education throughout their working lives. 

"And because the skills in demand are also changing at pace, there is this perpetual need for the system to adapt in response."

Further commentary by Professor Cameron was published by Future Campus.  

Alec Cameron at the 2026 Solutions Summit

Strengthening transnational education  

Vice-President, International Layton Pike contributed to a panel discussion on transnational education. 

He pointed to the University’s decades-long partnership with the Singapore Institute of Management, and presence in Vietnam, as exemplars of cross-cultural relationships. 

"This is not about helicoptering into these locations and delivering education the 'Australian way'," he said.  

"Mutual respect and engagement, not to mention trust, friendship and cultural intelligence, is critical to success."

The panel also explored changing requirements around data collection and reporting for Australian universities that deliver transnational education. 

Leyton Pike at the 2026 Solutions Summit
26 February 2026

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