Day: February 1, 2010
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Quality targets hit and miss
Peer review of teaching may be what the government needs if it wants to measure quality of teaching. Peer review…
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TAFE reels under falling funding
Vocational training may not provide much of a springboard for meeting the new higher education targets, with unmet demand rising…
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Regional paper misses the big picture
With its focus restricted to funding, the federal government, via its discussion paper on regional loadings, has missed a timely…
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Duelling targets
Targets can be easy if you’ve got momentum on your side. But they can be much harder if you’re fighting…
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What’s fair about defining disadvantage?
Could the government’s new higher education equity policy end up being unfair? It’s a risk we face, writes Andrew Norton.…
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Noticeboard
Nobel winner collects nation’s top citizens’ honour her weighty list of accolades and titles. Blackburn, who co-discovered the telomerase enzyme…
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Teaching clinicians to teach
Clinical teaching skills are highly transferable across health disciplines and learning contexts. But sensitivity is needed in delivering the message,…
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Curriculum with bite
Advancements in dental practice are posing educational challenges. Jeremy Gilling reports. Implant dentistry has transformed dental practice worldwide, says Nikos…
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Shape of things to come
Social media is throwing up challenges and opportunities for universities, write Beverly Head. When a pro-rape page established on Facebook…
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Budding leaders into the breach
The UK’s new breed of higher education leaders are heading into a brave new world, writes Christina Slade. A couple…
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Japan ratchets up funding for internationalisation
Japan is pushing its internationisation agenda by offering courses in English. Two years ago the Japanese government launched ‘Global 30’,…
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Driving capability development
Who needs to pick up the baton regarding the professional development of the VET workforce, asks John Mitchell. The editorial…
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TAFEs demand moratorium on private colleges
Victorian TAFEs want a stop to new private VET colleges, and more support when they rescue students from failed colleges.…
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Indicating quality – or not?
There is very little difference between old performance measures and the new ones, writes Marcia Devlin. Except in one very…
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Looking beyond supervised placements
Managing the demands of work-integrated intense higher education, by Stephen Billett. A growing concern for many universities is meeting the…
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If not education, then what?
Parental education is not a good proxy for measuring socioeconomic status, writes Trevor Gale. The long-awaited move to a new…
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Researchers bypassed in international crisis response
Australia needs better research before it can put together a cogent response to the crisis in international education Strategies to…
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'TAFE' brand on ice out west
Western Australia is backing away from the TAFE brand, with the name discarded by four of its ten institutes. Western…
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CSU's flexible delivery erratic: AUQA
CSU's distance education credentials come under fire in its recent AUQA report. Australia's largest provider of distance and flexible learning…
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