http://www.campusreview.com.au/ This feed displays the lastest stories from Campus Review. Copyright 2008 APN Educational Media Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Campus Review Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT 1440 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14014 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14014 The late January collapse of yet another private college chain - this time in the English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS)... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14010 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14010 The Bill to amend the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act hit an unexpected snag in the Senate last Thursday, with the Opposition and... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14008 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14008 Either Australian academics are among the least satisfied in the world or they have consistently high levels of job satisfaction - much higher than... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14013 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14013 The recent discussion about the graduate certificate of higher education (GCHE) as the possible basis of an indicator of teaching quality has raised... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14018 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14018 Hot on the heels of Universities Australia's bid for an extra $881 million in higher education spending, Australia's TAFEs have staked their claim... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14022 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14022 With the US economy still technically a basket case, US President Barack Obama's $US3.8 trillion ($4.3 trillion) 2011 budget lays the foundation for... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14021 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14021 It's a commonly held fact in higher education circles that those who complete a bachelor degree will earn $1 million more than their counterparts who... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14020 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14020 Quebec has played its strong hand in a bid to attract Indian students disaffected by reports of violence and college closures in Australia. Quebec... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14019 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14019 Online intro Tasmania has upgraded its own version of the training guarantee, pledging government-supported places for all retrenched workers.... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14017 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14017 One of my more genuinely learned academic colleagues once said to a gaggle of alleged social scientists - including a crop of obsessive rats-'n-stats... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14016 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14016 The worldwide fanfare that surrounded the launch of Apple's new iPad makes it difficult for educators to calmly reflect on the possible educational... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14015 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14015 TAFE NSW students face disruption this week - the first week of classes for 2010 - with no end in sight to the long-running industrial dispute... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14012 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14012 A tightened skilled occupations list (SOL) is to be introduced this year and will effectively replace the critical skills list (CSL) in determining... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14011 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14011 Over 60 registered training organisations (RTOs) in Victoria have had their registrations cancelled or suspended during the current financial year... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14009 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14009 The federal government has listed the stalled reforms to the student income support system as one of its 10 "key accomplishments" in a progress... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14007 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14007 An international study will measure and compare learning outcomes at universities around the world - and could provide the "missing link" for... Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13892 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13892 Peer review of teaching has emerged as a possible measure for teaching quality in the government's indicator framework for higher education... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13898 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13898 Unmet demand in the government-funded VET sector rose by over 10 per cent in 2008, as funding rates continued to decline and the number of training... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13886 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13886 With its focus restricted to funding, the federal government, via its discussion paper on regional loadings, has missed a timely opportunity to... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13890 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13890 Some of the new tertiary education targets are starting to look as if they'll achieve themselves. But some are headed for dirty air - the turbulence... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13895 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13895 Under draft policies, for the first time a low-SES classification would deliver significant benefits to individuals. Partnerships funding would... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=13905 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=13905 When in the late 1990s clinicians in Perth were searching for someone to provide staff development for doctors who were responsible for imparting... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=13904 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=13904 Implant dentistry has transformed dental practice worldwide, says Nikos Mattheos. But the education system has a lot of catching up to do. While... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=13903 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=13903 When a pro-rape page established on Facebook by past and present University of Sydney students hit the headlines late last year, it threw into sharp... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=13902 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=13902 A couple of weeks ago, some of 18 budding leaders of higher education in the UK could be found building an igloo in a hotel outside Edinburgh. They... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=13901 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=13901 Nobel winner collects nation's top citizens' honour Hobart-born Nobel Prize winning Professor Elizabeth Blackburn can now add an AC, the highest of... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13900 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13900 The editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 January put the case for school teachers to be positioned at the centre of the government's... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13899 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13899 Victorian TAFEs have distanced themselves from the troubled private VET sector, calling for a moratorium on new providers and demanding a... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13897 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13897 And so, round two of the national "debate" about teaching quality is on. The federal government teaching indicators paper is out; senior executive... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13896 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13896 A growing concern for many universities is meeting the increasing demand to locate, organise and sustain their students' workplace experiences for... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13894 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=13894 The long-awaited move to a new way of measuring the socioeconomic status of higher education students is gathering pace. Submissions in response to... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13893 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13893 Strategies to deal with the crisis in international education are being developed in a research vacuum, according to two Melbourne experts on... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13891 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13891 Flinders hit by brazen theft of $20 million Flinders University has been rocked by a theft of over $20 million. Last week, a former supervisor in the... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13889 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=13889 Western Australia is progressively removing the name TAFE from its public training system, as the state's institutes respond to their training... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13888 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13888 Australia's largest provider of distance and flexible learning has been told to pull up its socks in the delivery of online learning, particularly in... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13887 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13887 Two years ago the Japanese government launched 'Global 30', a project aimed, inter alia, at increasing the number of international students studying... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13847 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13847 A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry won a $400,000 contract under the federal government's flagship VET program,... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13849 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13849 Strong demand for places leading to rising TERs, despite an expansion of the number of places on offer, could have the cumulative effect of... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13851 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13851 Australian universities may punch above their weight in global rankings such as the Times Higher Education-QS and Shanghai Jiao Tong. But their... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13854 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=13854 The age structure of the science academic workforce is in better shape than the academic workforce as a whole, but new research reveals a lot of... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT