Day: August 22, 2011
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Funding inquiry premature: Greens
A Liberal senator’s motion for an inquiry into university funding was rejected because it was premature and lacked scope, according…
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Nicoll named TEQSA chief
As the inaugural chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Nicoll will lead four other commissioners…
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Countering UK-style disengagement
On the third day of the recent riots in England I was sitting in the community college in Dubbo NSW,…
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Evans says sector will adapt
The higher education landscape in Australia has altered dramatically since the first issue of Campus Review hit the stands in…
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Towards policy coherence
Twenty years is a long time in higher education, although it is eerie how many of the issues remain largely…
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Blurring the public – private debate
It’s not an easy time for universities. What continuing level of funding will Canberra provide for increased domestic student enrolments?…
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Challenges then and now
When I joined the University of Wollongong in 1990 from UTS, there was a great sense of optimism about the…
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A group of our own
How do Australia’s universities experience the changes that are sweeping through the higher education sector? Differently, no doubt. Despite a…
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When adjustment is the only way forward
These days, an ever-important concept in the lexicon of the Prime Minister is the term “structural adjustment”. She often alludes…
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End of the line
Columnist Richard Hil takes a look at what can happen if academics are pushed too far by endless change and…
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Been there done that… and it did not really work
Twenty years ago when Campus Review was started, I had just returned to the tertiary sector in New Zealand after…
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Good cheer at ALTC wake
Those attending the Opera House awards ceremony loudly cheered outgoing ALTC CEO Dr Carol Nicoll and teacher-of-the-year winner Associate Professor Roy…
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Chemistry of teaching
It only takes a few seconds of conversation with Associate Professor Roy Tasker to see the enthusiasm that has won…
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Some rankings more equal than others
The Academic Ranking of World Universities, produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, bumped some Australian universities up a few places…
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Crime report contradicts international student experience
A new report on crimes against international students in Australia has failed to impress groups and academics steeped in the…
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What The VCs had to say
More on Over to You Professor Sandra Harding, vice-chancellor of James Cook University predicted life in universities, for those at the…
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Rhetoric and reality
Despite numerous reviews, taskforces and summits, including a so-called education revolution, critical problems persist. So what’s changed? Certainly not government…
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Student caution on demand-driven system
The higher education system in Australia is changing at a rapid pace. Since the Review of Higher Education chaired by…
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Taking the “argh” out of journal rankings
Journal rankings. Those two words and their implications have conjured up a collective groan, at times an outright roar, from…
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Death of distance
Long term reforms need to be less about introducing gadgets and gizmos to engage students, and more about a wholesale…
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Great vision, poor policy
"We have a great TAFE network and many excellent TAFE institutions. But it’s the educators and teachers that make a…
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Why wait for Godot?
An international education colleague of mine once told me many years back that he was closely related to the playwright…
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Looking backwards to tomorrow
From the vantage point of Australian higher education in 2011, the sector of twenty years ago is another world. There…
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Advocates and detractors
It is unwise for politicians to enter the research policy arena without a firm grasp of history. You can learn…
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Changed, changed utterly
We all think that our career patterns are unique and most of us, particularly early on, can see the barriers…
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