Monthly Archives: July 2009
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More »A repair manual for international education: better policy, better policing
Poor federal skilled migration policy and inadequate state regulation are at the heart of the crisis in international education, according to the heads of the industry’s professional association and its biggest recruiter. And they say that while Australian education’s international ...
More »Seesaw stats show the migration system is skewed
Statistical differences between the courses overseas students apply for and the courses they eventually enrol in illustrate how migration objectives are distorting Australia’s international education industry, according to IDP Education chief executive Anthony Pollock. Pollock said Department of Immigration and ...
More »Adding balance to the hysteria
Hysterical reporting in the mainstream media fails to give a balanced view of international education in Australian universities, writes Alan Olsen. As an Australian living outside my country, with an elderly parent and a child in school there, I dread ...
More »Shakespeare Hong Kong style
Simon Haines goes to a colourful drama festival and wonders why we don’t put such events on at home. On a couple of occasions in the past two or three years I’ve been invited to lecture to large groups of ...
More »Safer than houses
Victorian TAFE institutes have been caught up in a Department of Treasury and Finance edict that severely restricts where they can keep their money – even though they’re part of what the state government calls the “most devolved and autonomous” ...
More »How to be an associate professor in five years
The University of Canberra is to simplify its academic structure that could see early career academics promoted to associate professor in as little at five years. It is just one of a series of radical reforms under way at the ...
More »Journals should give researchers a break
Academic journals should show more sympathy for potential contributors by not requiring them to format their manuscripts before submission, according to a visiting French postdoctoral fellow with Sydney University’s School of Biological Sciences. François Brischoux from the Centre National de ...
More »When equity is just not enough
<<<In many ways, student equity is a numbers game. But Trevor Gale argues we need to develop new ways of understanding higher education if we are to develop a more sophisticated approach to equity.>>> Student equity in Australian higher education ...
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