"Tutorial size increases, online quizzes replacing assessment tasks, video streams (which often don't work) replacing classes, cuts in contact hours, refusal to pay staff for teaching time outside of tutorials, and a refusal to hire tutors if they have PhDs. ...
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Sydney, Singapore researchers join forces
Engineers from the University of Sydney and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have agreed to collaborate on research into artificial intelligence, food technology, clean energy and waste management. The "faculty-to-faculty partnership" will see engineering and information technology students explore new ...
More »Time to re-think higher education assessments: Column
Measuring an elephant Delivering higher education assessments online will transform efficiencies in a system already estimated to cost into the billions. Student assessment is a pillar of higher education. It bookends who gets in and gets out, signposts achievement, gatekeeps ...
More »Australian universities make global MBA rankings
Three Australian universities have been placed among the world's best for their MBA courses in the latest rankings by CEO Magazine. The CEO Magazine 2018 Global MBA rankings assess universities based on factors such as quality of faculty, international diversity, ...
More »On the move: January
New engineering dean for USYD The University of Sydney will welcome Professor Willy Zwaenepoel as the new dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies on 15 June 2018. Zwaenepoel is an experienced leader in experimental computer science research, ...
More »Students as co-creators of universities #UAConf18
How can universities give value to students as partners, rather than as consumers? This question formed one of the major themes of the 2018 Higher Education Conference, and not just in speaker content – it was also reflected in the ...
More »Vive la résistance: The persistence of the university education model in a rapidly changing world
What does the future hold for our universities? Inside the academy, plenty of experts – from Glyn Davis at the University of Melbourne to economist Ken Rogoff of Harvard – are speculating eloquently about imminent threats to the 'standard model'. ...
More »The University of Toxicity: Managerialism and the rise of Professor Toxic (part 1)
Managerialism, academic capitalism and the rise of Professor Toxic. It will come as no shock to readers of Campus Review that the tertiary education sector has dramatically changed over the past two decades. Universities now more closely resemble the corporate ...
More »Opinion: improving graduate employability with technology
Graduate employability is a major area of concern for students and educators alike. Until recently, the solution relied on students proactively seeking out voluntary opportunities and internships that would give them exposure to the ‘real world’. Now, the focus has ...
More »Can AI really predict suicide?
Despite click-baiting headlines like How tech giants are using AI to prevent self-harm and suicide and Artificial intelligence can now predict suicide with remarkable accuracy, some experts aren't so sure that's true. On the back of a further claim that AI uses brain imaging data to ‘identify suicidal youth’, this time, ...
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