Just back from a visit to the Chinese province of Anhui, Sharon Bell writes about deepening educational relationships and ponders cultural conundrums. I think we all harbour quite well developed, if not always accurate, perceptions of China: – as an ...
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Many academic colleagues may be unaware but Vancouver, Canada, has just played host to the largest gathering of higher education practitioners in the world, with 8,700 delegates converging on a stunningly beautiful city – a city at this time of ...
More »Reality of gender equity
The 2006 Census indicates that two-thirds of the people with doctoral qualifications in Australia are male, writes Sharon Bell Another major conference on Equity in Higher Education is about to be held in Sydney. This is noteworthy on two counts. ...
More »Delicate dance in the complex world of HR strategies
Vice-chancellors would rank HR success as keeping the organisation off front pages and out of court. In an ideal world, one could expect a gathering of HR practitioners to be characterised by equanimity, professionalism and openness to a diversity of ...
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