Day: March 5, 2012
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TEQSA risk judgement welcome
Providers have welcomed TEQSA’s newly released regulatory risk framework as a good faith attempt, but remain concerned about any increase…
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Beautiful one day, scandalised the next
The UQ scandal displays the nuanced trade-off between ethics and transparency writes Bill De Maria. The mighty Brisbane River bear hugs the…
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NEAS appoints new directors
English language teaching quality assurance body NEAS appointed two new directors as well as a communications manager to support the…
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Zillante to head up architecture at Adelaide university
Construction and planning expert Dr George Zillante has been appointed the new head of the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture…
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TAFE institute gets new CEO
Dr Andy Giddy has taken over as chief executive of the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) following the retirement…
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MacDonald new head of built environment school
Dr Heather MacDonald is the new head of the School of the Built Environment at UTS. MacDonald joined UTS in…
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Kirkpatrick takes pro-VC role at Adelaide
The University of Adelaide will have a new head to oversee the student experience with the appointment of Professor Denise…
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Westpac risk analyst joins Macquarie
Dr John Jarratt has been announced as the new head of the department of applied finance and actuarial studies for…
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VET student entitlement schemes flawed
In recent months Skills Victoria’s experimentation with market-based VET funding has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.…
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Time to re-think compulsory school leaving age
Policies that equate raising the school leaving age with improved outcomes are deluded, writes Stuart Middleton. A former director general…
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End of the Line – Beam me up
ET from planet Zog has been beamed from his command ship to earth to discuss Australian higher education policy with the minster…
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Education in the digital blender
The digital age will help everyone learn more, everywhere writes Jennifer Bennett. Online and blended learning offer the opportunity to…
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A brave new world of blogging
The debate over climate change can get uncivilised fast and nowhere is this more evident than online, where the comments…
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Enrolments ‘capped’ by lack of clinical places
Despite strong demand and new uncapped enrolments, many of Australia’s nursing and midwifery schools have limited their 2012 student intakes…
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Boundaries blur as academics take on other work
University general/professional staffs are sometimes presented as if they were part of the ‘problem’ rather than as people with key…
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Sharp spike in student numbers
The number of student places at Australian universities has increased by more than a quarter since 2007, figures released by the government…
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Union joins ‘white coat’ revolution
The peak union for academic staff in Australia has joined a global campaign against Elsevier, one of the world’s largest…
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Group of Eight call for research funding change
The Group of Eight universities dominate Australian research activity, support and commercialisation but the organisation says that under current government…
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Look where an Australian education will take you
This video cost around $400,000, was conceived by advertising super agency M&C Saatchi and animated by Animal Logic, the digital…
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Perth TAFE’s YouTube video worth a million
It’s not for the faint-hearted, but there’s definitely a reason why a video advertising Perth’s Central Institute of Technology has…
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Doctoral scholarship a dream come true
A Victorian scholarship program is helping turn dreams into reality for Sayali Shah. The 25-year-old student from Pune, in the…
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PhDs who had no plans to find work in academia do : UK survey
In the UK the proportion of doctoral students who find academic jobs is greater than the proportion with a definite…
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New series: Being TEQSA ready
In light of the advent of the new regulatory and quality regime that TEQSA heralds, Campus Review is running a…
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Peak bodies renew transport fight
The tertiary education sector is demanding that New South Wales and Victoria prepare a transparent cost-benefit analysis of equitable travel…
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EU commissioner in Australia to promote research teamwork
The European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, will visit Australia and New Zealand this week to meet…
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