Group of 8 critics are disappointed over the ongoing questioning of the Bradley review, writes Dani Cooper. The Group of 8 has been accused of “self-interest” in its latest attacks on the Bradley review and its call for deregulation of ...
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Coaldrake to lead OECD program
UA’s chair has been elected to head the governing body of a unique OECD think tank. Professor Peter Coaldrake, the Queensland University of Technology vice-chancellor and Universities Australia chair, has been given the leadership of a unique Organisation for Economic ...
More »Can teaching quality be ranked agency asks
While it may seem the rankers are battling to outrank one another, QS’s Nunzio Quacquarelli writes that it very much depends what users are looking for. In the past three months, a number of researchers of global university rankings have ...
More »Reversing non-completions
Are reasons for non-completions worth examining, asks John Mitchell. The discussion paper recently released by Skills Australia, Creating a future direction for Australian VET, raised some immediate controversies, (Campus Review Vol 20, No 21) but one particular section of the ...
More »Ranking the rankers
This year’s global university rankings rankled many in the sector. The dissatisfaction was not confined to Australia, but here we did see vice-chancellors question the methodologies of the three major agencies, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE) and Shanghai ...
More »Sound advice on being a winner
With the Australian Teaching and Learning Council awards announced next week three former winners Mark Israel, Iain Hay, Lisa Emerson take a wry look at impacts on their careers Prepare an acceptance ‘speech’. Those who get to deliver an acceptance ...
More »Inaugural chair in sustainable mining practices at UNSW
Associate Professor David Laurence has accepted the position of the inaugural Mitsubishi chair in sustainable mining practices at the University of New South Wales School of Mining Engineering. As chair, Laurence also becomes the founding director of the Australian Centre ...
More »Open Universities Australia
Open Universities Australia (OUA) has appointed Mr Sam Weiss as chairman and Mr David Phillips as an independent director. Weiss replaces outgoing chair Peter Wade, who retired in October after 10 years in the role. Weiss served as an independent ...
More »New president for the Australian
Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Russell Crawford has been appointed President of the Australian Council of Deans of Science (ACDS). Crawford is Dean of the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne, a position he has held since 2004. ...
More »USC signs agreement with Cambodia on eco-tourism
The University of the Sunshine Coast has signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism to help establish tourism educational institutions and plan strategic policies for sustainable tourism. “There is big potential for USC, short and long-term, ...
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