New ways to reward researchers
Rewards and incentives based on conventional research metrics minimise opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and with interrupted careers, and they restrict innovation and cooperation across universities, government and industry. […]
Student evals of academics surprisingly positive
That student evaluations of teaching (SET’s) are unfair is widely assumed. New research suggests not. There was a blue at UNSW a couple of years back, over management making individual […]
ARC failing on funding research
A review of the Australian Research Council finds stakeholders have “low levels of confidence in grant outcomes,” and the ARC has “limited knowledge and capability” to deliver a “best practice” […]