A university is only as good as its staff and when it comes to mastering new IT, the pressure to keep up has never been greater. By Aileen Macalintal Not only do students and teachers need to be up-to-date with ...
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We have for more than a century used the terms “academic” and “vocational” to distinguish levels of education – and “brightness”. But are those distinctions helpful or necessary? By Stuart Middleton The use of both “academic” and “vocational” as ...
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Educational development leader Faraone replaces longtime chief Mackenzie The board of Victoria’s largest TAFE institute has announced Mary Faraone as its new CEO. The Holmesglen Institute board made the appointment following a search that attracted applications from interstate and ...
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Party backs chief scientist’s call for more federal spending on education. The Australian Greens have renewed their call for the federal government to restore $2.3 billion in university budget cuts and increase base public funding in light of the chief ...
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To achieve an even stronger collaboration between universities and industry, we need to address those issues holding this coexistence back. By David Lloyd There’s an oft-quoted line from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke: “What we’ve got here is ...
More »Wenger’s theory: moving forward
Etienne Wenger suggested that the issue is not about learning, but about filtering the learning from multiple relationships and the over-choice of possibilities. By Llandis Barratt-Pugh it is always a special moment when you get the chance to meet ...
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Numeracy is falling far behind literacy as a necessary skill. What’s the answer? A better skilled practitioner workforce is needed. By Tom Karmel We know that mathematics is one of the cornerstones of our civilisation, and those with higher ...
More »UNSW joins Coursera
University teams up with network of more than 80 institutions and 4 million students. The University of New South Wales has joined Coursera, the network of global educational partners offering free online courses to millions. US-based Coursera provides free ...
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Universities Australia has joined the chorus of opposition to proposed education tax-break changes The number of paying postgraduate students may drop by up to 30 per cent in just four years if the government pushes through with its proposals ...
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Swinburne Online’s teaching staff rarely meet physically, but still maintain their support networks Swinburne University of Technology’s distance-learning arm, Swinburne Online, has staff that are based solely online, like its students. Physically these eLearning Advisors (eLAs) are based around ...
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