Day: August 8, 2011
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Review of indigenous access and outcomes to get underway
A national review of higher education’s role in improving the lives of indigenous Australians is expected to kick off soon…
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UOW gets AUQA tick of approval but also a risk warning
A recent AUQA report has commended the University of Wollongong for providing an excellent onshore student experience but raised concerns…
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Oakeshott gets creative on university funding
Tax breaks and philanthropy are key to the future funding of universities, according to Independent Rob Oakeshott. In an address…
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Co-operative effort to benchmark standards in accountancy courses
Academics, employers and recent graduates are collaborating on a project aiming to benchmark national learning and teaching standards for accounting. The…
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New pathways for RTOs working in retail training
It’s hard to miss the story in the mass media that the Australian retail industry is in bad shape. The…
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Tongue-tied by language
One of the exciting and challenging ways in which New Zealand and Australia has changed over the past 50 or…
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Policy settings imperative for security in BYO environment
Universities should in theory be in the box seat in terms of the move toward BYO devices and desktop virtualisation…
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Reduce HECS to entice regional students: UNE
University of New England (UNE) vice chancellor Professor Jim Barber says the federal government should forgive its HECS debt to…
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Last minute rush for ERA draft
The Australian Research Council (ARC) had received just one submission until the weekend before its August 1 deadline, when an…
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School-fee probe by commission
The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has challenged the legality of the multi-million dollar income generated by the…
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Bradley recommends CIT and UC merger
The recommendation was contained in a report commissioned by the ACT government and conducted by Professor Denise Bradley and made…
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Call for national study on international students
International students frequently feel like outsiders and institutions need to take greater steps to engage with them if they want…
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ACPET backs call for new body on international education
A plan to arrest the decline of international education in Australia through the establishment of a joint government-industry body has…
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Student mobility and a new website key to collaboration with India
Student mobility between Australia and India requires quality assurance, mutual recognition of qualifications and credit transfers. And unless this mobility…
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OKeeffe wins educators’ journalism award
The president of the ACE NSW, Dr Frederick Osman, said the award acknowledges an outstanding contribution by a journalist to…
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The Blog Rankings
Andrew Norton is known as a higher education researcher, but the most popular post on his blog Observations from Carlton’s…
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Global collaboration
Within the cool confines of the Australian National University’s supercomputer laboratory, biostatistician Keith Dear couldn’t be further removed from the…
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‘No’ surety of standards in Cert III for aged care
If the Certificate III in Aged Care Work and the Certificate IV Assessor and Trainer were designed to be the…
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Compliance and implementation pivotal
As the embryonic Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) takes form, the five standards domains – Provider, Qualifications, Teaching…
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Formal letter was university’s answer to plea for help
Much needs to change in the way tertiary institutions manage students with mental illnesses – down to the language used…
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Educators call for a regional policy
How to best prepare for a radically changing landscape was the topic delegates repeatedly returned to at an inaugural regional…
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