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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Accreditation delays hold up innovation

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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