We come with this place
A new memoir of family, community and Country We Come With This Place took home the Queensland Literacy Award for Best Non-Fiction, adding to a string of recent awards. The […]
Critical Indigenous Studies: overcoming exclusion
“A staggering 36 Australian universities, including Australia’s wealthiest, have not demonstrated the fiscal leadership to fund an Indigenous Studies department” Aileen Moreton-Robinson writes for the Australian Academy of the Humanities. […]
Appointments & Achievements (September 14 2023)
The Australasian Research Management Society announces new board members. * President: Tania Bezzobs (UTS) * Treasurer: Lachlan Doughney (RMIT) * Secretary: Kate Swanson (Uni Queensland) * Committee: Sharon Aburn (Monash […]
A not so bright light on research integrity
The long-awaited report on the peak research agencies’ integrity committee is still awaited, but the case for change is made by a report on what the existing body did last […]
The Week That Was
The Reps has passed the government Bill enacting the Accord’s first five recommendations, notably ending the previous government’s requirement that students must 50 per cent of subject to keep a […]
Why Australia is not speaking with the neighbours
Business leader Nicholas Moore has produced a report on trade and investment in SE Asia for DFAT. It includes promoting Aus education in the region, work on qualifications recognition, a […]
How big tech used the pandemic to hijack schooling
The pandemic pushed schooling online all over the world. Good for tech solutionists and IT entrepreneurs, but bad, Mark West and UNESCO colleagues argue, for all who believe schools are […]
Why our campuses look the way they do
While the pandemic transformed the way universities taught mass undergraduate audiences, it has not delayed the changing distribution of campuses across the country. The old distinctions of CBD, suburban and […]