Archive for April 2nd, 2012
UK elite fare badly on widening access
By Jack Grove | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Teaching |
Almost all the UK’s Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show. Of the 20 large research-intensive universities, only the universities of Sheffield and Liverpool reached More..
By Jack Grove | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Teaching |
Almost all the UK’s Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show. Of the 20 large research-intensive universities, only the universities of Sheffield and Liverpool reached More..
End of the line – if the cap fits
By Richard Hil | 2nd April, 2012 | Comment, Features |
Pro-vice chancellor for global reach and pedagogical integrity, Professor Mal Sway, stares ruefully out of his office window as the dean of engineering, Professor Les Spanner, enters the room to talk about student enrolments. Professor Sway: Did you hear what More..
By Richard Hil | 2nd April, 2012 | Comment, Features |
Pro-vice chancellor for global reach and pedagogical integrity, Professor Mal Sway, stares ruefully out of his office window as the dean of engineering, Professor Les Spanner, enters the room to talk about student enrolments. Professor Sway: Did you hear what More..
Being TEQSA ready – Curriculum reform in the age of Google
By Roger Hadgraft | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Research, Teaching |
With so much information available online, and changing workplace needs, universities need to take this opportunity to examine what and how they teach writes Roger Hadgraft. The first two articles in this series focused on risk management issues and the More..
By Roger Hadgraft | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Research, Teaching |
With so much information available online, and changing workplace needs, universities need to take this opportunity to examine what and how they teach writes Roger Hadgraft. The first two articles in this series focused on risk management issues and the More..
Older but no wiser
By Fiona Wood | 2nd April, 2012 | Comment, Research |
Fiona Wood asks if ERA should be doing something more useful than just stocktaking.Did you know that more than half the world’s 7 billion people are under 30 years of age? And that 90 per cent of these youthful people More..
By Fiona Wood | 2nd April, 2012 | Comment, Research |
Fiona Wood asks if ERA should be doing something more useful than just stocktaking.Did you know that more than half the world’s 7 billion people are under 30 years of age? And that 90 per cent of these youthful people More..
Universities told to get voters’ attention
By Jennifer Bennett | 2nd April, 2012 | News | Australia’s dominant political parties are in a “race to the bottom” when it comes to funding the higher education sector, which needs to start publicising its importance to society – and the economy, a conference in Sydney has heard. Vicki Thomson, More..
By Jennifer Bennett | 2nd April, 2012 | News | Australia’s dominant political parties are in a “race to the bottom” when it comes to funding the higher education sector, which needs to start publicising its importance to society – and the economy, a conference in Sydney has heard. Vicki Thomson, More..
What McCallum found underneath the ice
By Campus Review | 2nd April, 2012 | News |
Our picture shows University of the Sunshine Coast academic Dr Adrian McCallum, who has just returned home after completing a three-month scoping study into alternative road options in Antarctica. McCallum was deployed by the federal government’s Antarctic research arm to assess More..
By Campus Review | 2nd April, 2012 | News |
Our picture shows University of the Sunshine Coast academic Dr Adrian McCallum, who has just returned home after completing a three-month scoping study into alternative road options in Antarctica. McCallum was deployed by the federal government’s Antarctic research arm to assess More..
UQ to meet coal seam gas opponents
By Susan Woodward | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Research | Bowing to pressure from staff and students, the University of Queensland will hold an information session on a controversial new coal seam gas (CSG) research centre later this month. As reported in Campus Review online last week, funding links between the More..
By Susan Woodward | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Research | Bowing to pressure from staff and students, the University of Queensland will hold an information session on a controversial new coal seam gas (CSG) research centre later this month. As reported in Campus Review online last week, funding links between the More..
Resist social networking at your peril: Open University VC
By Annette Blackwell | 2nd April, 2012 | International, News, Teaching |
The next wave of change in further education will be fast and incredibly disruptive. It will happen when education meets social networking and it will be exciting as well as scary, the vice-chancellor of Britain’s Open University (OU), Martin Bean, told More..
By Annette Blackwell | 2nd April, 2012 | International, News, Teaching |
The next wave of change in further education will be fast and incredibly disruptive. It will happen when education meets social networking and it will be exciting as well as scary, the vice-chancellor of Britain’s Open University (OU), Martin Bean, told More..
The Blog Rankings – a different way of measuring impact
By Jennifer Bennett | 2nd April, 2012 | Features, Technology |
‘Publish or perish’ is the unofficial motto of scientific life. Get your research out there! Get citations! Get your rankings up! But it’s easier in some areas than others, as University of South Australia pain specialist Professor Lorimer Moseley has More..
By Jennifer Bennett | 2nd April, 2012 | Features, Technology |
‘Publish or perish’ is the unofficial motto of scientific life. Get your research out there! Get citations! Get your rankings up! But it’s easier in some areas than others, as University of South Australia pain specialist Professor Lorimer Moseley has More..
Medical training shortage ‘predictable’
By Susan Woodward | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Research | A “backsides on seats” mentality and poor government policy are to blame for a looming shortage of clinical placements for medical graduates, says the Australian Doctors’ Fund (ADF), a company that advocates for patients and doctors. ADF executive director Stephen More..
By Susan Woodward | 2nd April, 2012 | News, Research | A “backsides on seats” mentality and poor government policy are to blame for a looming shortage of clinical placements for medical graduates, says the Australian Doctors’ Fund (ADF), a company that advocates for patients and doctors. ADF executive director Stephen More..
VET needs external assessors
By John Mitchell | 2nd April, 2012 | Comment, VET | Skills Australia CEO Robin Shreeve wonders why the VET sector with thousands of providers has not followed the school approach of having external Boards of Studies award qualifications. One part of the Prime Minister’s recent skills statement was unexpected. That More..
By John Mitchell | 2nd April, 2012 | Comment, VET | Skills Australia CEO Robin Shreeve wonders why the VET sector with thousands of providers has not followed the school approach of having external Boards of Studies award qualifications. One part of the Prime Minister’s recent skills statement was unexpected. That More..
Learn to work with TEQSA: Craven
By Jennifer Bennett | 2nd April, 2012 | News |
The higher education sector needs to embrace the new regulatory system and learn to work with it, says Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Professor Greg Craven. Craven, a leader of the Universities Australia working party involved in negotiations on the creation of More..
By Jennifer Bennett | 2nd April, 2012 | News |
The higher education sector needs to embrace the new regulatory system and learn to work with it, says Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Professor Greg Craven. Craven, a leader of the Universities Australia working party involved in negotiations on the creation of More..
