The teaching of research skills in undergraduate years is also doing some serious value-adding, according to a new study. Putting elite science undergraduates into a research-intensive environment doesn’t mean they automatically learn more about science. That’s the surprising finding from ...
More »Change underpins academic dissatisfaction
Australian academics are an unhappy lot, particularly when it comes to their attitudes to senior management, a new paper has found. Rapid and unprecedented changes in the higher education sphere have led to widespread grumbling among Australian academics, threatening further ...
More »More women, but still underrepresented
There were twice as many women named laureate fellows this year as in 2009 – but there are still only four. In the second year of the Australian Laureate Fellowships, four women were among the 15 researchers awarded, sparking both ...
More »Bond likely to pair with World Bank
Bond, Stanford and Queen’s universities are in the running to win a major World Bank tender. Bond University is expecting an imminent green light from the World Bank to host an online postgraduate program on infrastructure management. The course will ...
More »Growing a research workforce
A new consultation paper examines the challenges of building and sustaining a high-quality research workforce as the nation strives to keep pace with skyrocketing global demand for researchers. The federal government may finally expand its postgraduate scholarships program as part ...
More »What predicts course satisfaction?
New research suggests student evaluations should be more flexible to allow a wider range of responses. Future versions of student satisfaction questionaries should be expanded and also assess learning attainment, according to a new study. Published in the most recent ...
More »Science undergrads: We’re not all brilliant
Putting elite science undergraduates into a research-intensive university environment doesn’t mean they automatically learn more about science., such as critical thinking. “The things that they don’t say they learn are tackling a problem, formulating a problem, developing a hypothesis and ...
More »