The initial slow regulatory process by TEQSA and ASQA has put private providers at disadvantage compared with public institutions. By John Wood. There is considerable dialogue at present around the impact of the new regulatory regimes in higher education and ...
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More decision making, not goal setting
Universities need to think about the future in a more constructive manner, writes Lenore Cooper. A vice-chancellor recently told me that, given the level of dynamism in the Australian higher education environment and the vagaries of government policy, he saw ...
More »Excellence in teaching rewarded at UTS
Three academics have been recognised for their work in teaching and learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB) introduced the awards to recognise the pedagogical skills across the faculty and to raise ...
More »Inside VET: Bar set too low on teacher skills
The Productivity Commission report into vocational education and training has flaws in some very important areas, writes John Mitchell. The current damage being inflicted on the VET system in Victoria is no surprise to those who have observed related attacks ...
More »Room for improvement in management
Respondents to an ATEM study have called for a “good practice” site to be used for the development of leadership in higher education. By Geoff Scott and Linda McKellar. In 2010, the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM) proposed a ...
More »Being TEQSA Ready: Mapping helps provide the evidence
One university has outlined its strategic response to making sure their learning and teaching standards stay high. By Jonathan Holmes, Susan Jones and Brian Yates. The previous two articles in this series considered how learning and teaching networks were assisting ...
More »The Blog Rankings: Deconstructing the architectural imbalance
Zero to 9000 unique browsers in two months suggests that the topic of Parlour – gender inequity in the world of architecture – has hit a nerve. Parlour [http://www.archiparlour.org/] is the result of research by a team lead by Dr ...
More »Tackling Big Data head on
The scheme to boost the computer capacity of the nation’s universities is ploughing ahead, with some help from the UK. By Beverley Head reports. The first three nodes of the $50 million Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project are about ...
More »Providers call for visa clarity
The government needs more representatives overseas to explain our rules or we will hurt a multibillion-dollar industry, writes Louis White. There have been too many changes to international student visa requirements that have happened far too quickly and without clarity. That ...
More »Macquarie stonewalls on staff review
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is planning to take Macquarie University to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal next week over its refusal to release a final report into a review of its support staff services. Both the NTEU and the ...
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