Day: October 31, 2011
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ANU Burma fracas tests limits of academic freedom
Academic freedom, truth and the future for more than 140,000 Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border are at stake in…
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The fix-it professor calls it a day
Nicholas Saunders had to make big cuts to save Newcastle University but seven years later it is on firm ground,…
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Is it time to update your online status?
Last week Lindsay Tanner said that the students of tomorrow will be born digital: they'll have known nothing else but the…
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Dealing with capacity and the law
‘What should the duty nurse do when a relative arrives unannounced in the ward with a bunch of papers for…
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Governments move on student travel
Reports that Australian governments will consider nationalising student travel concessions has fuelled the long campaign to extend the concessions to…
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VET funding under spotlight
Funding for the VET sector might be better allocated if based on completion rates rather than enrolments, says the head…
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Filling the gap in online education
There is evidence in current literature describing how institutions have, in many instances, been slow to adopt properly resourced and…
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In the News
Planning for the next natural disaster
A number of universities spread around the nation are collaborating to assist in the response to fires, floods, hurricanes and…
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Will the internet kill universities?
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently described universities as an endangered species. The university’s traditional role as creator, curator and distributor…
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Diligence and the media
The area meeting for the creative research group at the University of Due Diligence was coming to an end. The…
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We are what we speak
When only a handful of people speak a language, attracting attention can be difficult. The Endangered Languages Blog, run by…
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QLD urged to revoke healthcare policy
Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans says he will ask Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to revoke a state policy that denies…
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Students mark unis for services
Universities will be asked to demonstrate they are taking on student input when it comes to the spending of funds…
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Riding out graduate supply in nursing
Australia is currently experiencing a boom in tertiary nursing enrolments. Federal government figures released in September show new commencements in…
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School lifts doctor numbers
A hundred new doctors a year are expected to graduate from the University of Western Sydney’s new clinical medicine school,…
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Death of Professor John Carroll
Staff, students and alumni of Charles Sturt University (CSU) were saddened last week to learn of the death of Professor…
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International student sector slowly climbs back up the ladder
There are signs that Australia’s international student sector is on the up again, with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s…
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ARC appoints chiefs to grade excellence
The Australian Research Council has appointed eight Australian academics to head up the evaluation committees for Excellence in Research for…
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New grants for UWA-UQ collaborations
Research on blood flukes, wound healing, and how gas changes into stars are among the projects being funded by the…
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A gripe over Grattan school report
It is concerning when poor research about teachers is made public. When that poor research is taken up by the…
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Never mind the score, look at the result
Just seconds after the referee blew full-time in the final of the Rugby World Cup, television showed a brief glimpse…
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Training a national concern
Have you seen the television commercial which ends with the arrival on screen of a blue work van with the…
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Measuring impact: daunting but not impossible
They are hailing Steve Jobs as the 20th century Edison. Some argue there can be no comparison between electricity and…
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Putting on your best social face
Facebook will break the one billion-user barrier sometime in 2012. It already has more than 800 million people signed up…
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Is it time to update your on-line status?
Last week Lindsay Tanner (vice-chancellor's fellow at Victoria University) wrote that: The students of tomorrow will be born digital: they'll…
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