The University of Adelaide and Eynesbury College are trying to undo a damaging perception that they’re selling university entry to year 11 students.
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Let the dog see the rabbit
The best way to increase productivity would be to reduce the demands of accountability to the basic metrics and allow the sector to divert money from management to teaching and research. By Giles Pickford.
More »Not more complaints, surely?
Deep in the bowels of Dropvale University the VC and PVC are deep in conference. They are poring over an NTEU national survey about academic morale.The atmosphere is sombre.
More »Death knell premature says skills boss
Australian manufacturers want training to be at work, about work, and for work being performed now and into the future. By John Mitchell.
More »Pedagogy ‘not’ cost-cutting driving tutorial cuts
Students to meet this week to decide on action as consultations replace some tutes.
More »Blogging beyond the journals
Blogging is a two-way process for academic Steven Wheeler, one he says enables him to engage with readers and students far more quickly than via traditional journals.
More »Crime report contradicts international student experience
A new report on crimes against international students in Australia has failed to impress groups and academics steeped in the realities of the students’ experience here. The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) report examines incidents of assault and robbery perpetrated ...
More »Rhetoric and reality
Despite numerous reviews, taskforces and summits, including a so-called education revolution, critical problems persist. So what’s changed? Certainly not government attitudes to funding with universities bracing for the onslaught of uncapped Commonwealth-supported places and Australia still struggling in just about ...
More »End of the line
Columnist Richard Hil takes a look at what can happen if academics are pushed too far by endless change and mounting regulation After years of complaining bitterly about excessive workloads, stress, over-regulation, diminished status and poor pay compared to workers ...
More »When adjustment is the only way forward
These days, an ever-important concept in the lexicon of the Prime Minister is the term “structural adjustment”. She often alludes to the structural adjustment that is required for the nation as it comes to grips with the government putting a ...
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