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Shakespeare Hong Kong style

Simon Haines goes to a colourful drama festival and wonders why we don’t put such events on at home. On a couple of occasions in the past two or three years I’ve been invited to lecture to large groups of ...

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National briefs

$15m for Australia-Asia student exchange The Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong scholarship program has been extended for a further 10 years. The partnership between the Australian government and the Hong Kong-based company Cheung Kong Holdings will support international education exchange and ...

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Journals should give researchers a break

Academic journals should show more sympathy for potential contributors by not requiring them to format their manuscripts before submission, according to a visiting French postdoctoral fellow with Sydney University’s School of Biological Sciences. François Brischoux from the Centre National de ...

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When equity is just not enough

<<<In many ways, student equity is a numbers game. But Trevor Gale argues we need to develop new ways of understanding higher education if we are to develop a more sophisticated approach to equity.>>> Student equity in Australian higher education ...

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A just ambition

The introduction of indigenous cultural competency across the curriculum will be a welcome step in the right direction, says Sandra Harding. Being confronted by the tragic reality of racism in Australia is not the normal fare of Universities Australia meetings. ...

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Sydney-Leeds-Amsterdam

Three conferences provide Toby Miller with unexpected insight. I’ve been to three contrasting conferences in the past month that seem to encapsulate the differences between being inside and outside the Beltway, as they say in DC when referring to access ...

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Heretics challenge VET orthodoxy

Should VET teaching focus more on demonstrable competence or student potential, asks John Mitchell. A review is currently underway of the basic qualification in training and assessment for VET practitioners. The review presents an important opportunity for the sector to ...

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VET briefs

Audit blitz hits dodgy colleges Forensic auditors could be used in the first major crackdown on corrupt training colleges for overseas students in Melbourne, reports The Age. The colleges are suspected of exploiting students, migration fraud and breaches of education ...

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Beyond the here and now

It would be useful if the taskforce could identify ways in which the apprenticeship provision could be more inclusive of Australians beyond male school leavers, says Stephen Billett. Despite the consequences of the economic downturn, there are signs that a ...

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Noticeboard

Griffith appoints new head of medicine a Curtin senior research fellow in new media in the Department of Internet Studies in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts. Balnaves is a former journalist and TV news production coordinator. Prior ...

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