Looking beyond the election sausage
The sausage sizzles are beginning. There is a calm cheer around the polling booths and people smile as they hand out ‘how-to-vote’ pamphlets. Even if individuals disagree it’s unlikely to […]
School test results: not as bad as they look
Initial teacher education providers have had a terrible ten years, accused of not preparing graduates for classrooms – with critics pointing out not-great school student scores on standard tests. But […]
Ways to work with AI in assessments
Student use of AI is inevitable – the challenge is to establish its role – which a new paper for the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency addresses. In Assessment […]
Publish and perish: the damage done by journal “special issues”
More journal space means more work, as researchers struggle to pump out papers. The number of articles indexed by Scopus and Web of Science increased by 47 per cent 2016-22 […]
Credit transfer: VET takes charge
Buried in the Employment White Paper is what a single tertiary education system will need; a common credit recognition system. But the existing Australian Qualification Framework isn’t here to help. […]
The Government’s winning training trifecta
Always on-message Universities Australia was quick to respond to the latest skills-shortage warning, in this case for a net-zero economy, “Our transition to clean energy future cannot be completed without […]
The Week that Was (October 5)
The Australian Skills Quality Authority has decided who needs to know what when will change. The authority announces that after October, its now monthly update will become a quarterly, “which […]
Appointments & Achievements (October 5 2023)
Australian Research Council announces Discovery Indigenous Grants go to, * Sarah Bourke (ANU) “Indigenous-determined pathways to living well in a city” * Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes (Uni Melbourne) “university practices and policy […]