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Support for the arts
The arts, social sciences and humanities will benefit from a new strategy to develop teaching practice.t for the deans council. Hay, the 2006 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year, plans to tackle two key ...
More »Uncomfortable truths about today’s history students
<<<History may be enjoying a resurgence, but developing the skills of a historian is not without its issues, reports Jeremy Gilling.>>> History is everywhere, and just about everyone has an opinion, says Marnie Hughes-Warrington. “It’s not like physics, say, where ...
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Transnational education programs may have peaked a couple of years ago and its hard to tell where this particular corner of international education is headed, writes Stephen Connelly.TNE) programs over the past 17 years. My first experience of TNE was ...
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Rankings can trigger innovation; the report says. On the other hand, there is “potential for rankings-influenced decision-making to undermine access for disadvantaged student populations”. Other concerns include over-emphasis on research, widening the ratio between full-time and adjunct academics, “substituting improvement ...
More »Alternatives to vanilla degrees and classroom teaching
What strategies can new entrants use to compete with universities and TAFE, asks John Mitchell.>Most new training organisations or higher education providers identify and then pursue boutique student markets. Typically, they target lucrative niche VET markets in a particular field ...
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Greening Australia’s apprentices for Indian students wanting to study abroad. Newly released AEI statistics show a 31 per cent annual increase for the quarter to end March in Indian students commencing in Australian education, including a 14 per cent jump ...
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India pushes for commonality among Commonwealth countriestation for the awarding of degrees. But student opposition is widespread and heated, with one campus occupation lasting several months. Hard times at British libraries Research libraries in the US are being pummelled by ...
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Skymapper’s to capture the southern skiespring Observatory. SkyMapper is a custom-built telescope that over five years will undertake the Southern Sky Survey – the first ever systematic digital map of the entire southern skies. In the process, it will produce ...
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