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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Why Europe?

Christina Slade attempts to answer this question. Why are we talking about Europe?, asked the only Australian student at the four week Global Citizenship summer school, taught half at City University in London, and half in Utrecht. “This course is ...

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US action usurps Australia-Indonesia ties

International education’s ‘sleeping giant’ has raided Australia’s giant back yard. US president Barack Obama’s recent pledge to invest $165 million into a higher education partnership with Indonesia showed Australia had lost dominance with its nearest neighbour, an Australian academic said ...

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The sky’s the limit

A leading school of nursing is collaborating with aged care providers to revolutionise education in the aged care industry. Darragh O Keeffe reports. How universities can best prepare registered nurses for the realities of working in residential aged care, and ...

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Producing a competent workforce

Universities are finding clinical practice can be improved within its walls, writes Annie May. Clinical placements are essential for undergraduate nursing students in developing the required skills to join the workforce. However, with nurses and healthcare facilities experiencing increased demand, ...

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Uncertainty the only certainty

It’s nervy times ahead, with an outcome from Saturday’s federal election still days away at best – and the looming possibility of a 75-all deadlock in the House of Representatives. The tertiary education sector, largely ignored in the election campaign, ...

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Politics trumps planning

With a hung parliament, the tertiary education sector is about to experience a protracted period of fragmented policy making. The election of a hung parliament ushers in a period in tertiary education where – more than ever – politics will ...

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Equity funding could survive under Coalition

How developed are your guidelines? That could be the key question for some key higher education programs if the Coalition forms government. The Coalition may be able to dismantle compacts and performance funding, but it will have more trouble starving ...

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Private VET “bigger than TAFE”?

TAFE figures have questioned private colleges’ claim that they’re now the biggest kid on the block. Private tertiary institutions have outgrown their public sector counterparts, according to their peak body, which claims new research shows that private providers now enrol ...

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Everyone will share our pain: ATN

Universities could cop $7 billion in “collateral damage” from policy measures targeted at other international education sectors, according to the ATN. Student visa restrictions have been given top billing in the list of problems facing international education, amidst the latest ...

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