The Week That Was (November 30)
Torrens U takes the biscuit, announcing a collaboration with Ice Hockey Australia “to make education more accessible for players.” *** The oft-announced 4000 university places in submarine related STEM subjects […]
Appointments and Achievements (November 30th)
The Australian Academy of the Humanities announces its 2023 fellows; * Kate Barclay (Uni Adelaide) * Larissa Behrendt (UTS) * Sarah Biddulph (Uni Melbourne) * Axel Bruns (QUT) * Megan […]
The reason it’s called gold open access
There was a 15 per cent rise in articles in journals that are all free to read/pay to publish (“Gold OA”) 2020-21 indexed by the OAJ directory, according to Stefanie […]
Five ways to make Assessment work in the AI era
The educational embracers of AI appear outnumbered by the machine-learning sceptics and there seem way fewer of both than the majority who are bewildered by how students will embrace the […]
Research collaboration with unis “very unsatisfactory” for business
A reliance on primary industries, the impact of globalisation and replacing local manufactures with imports has led to Australia’s labour productivity growth being the lowest in 60 years, according to […]
Face behind the statistic
I met Harriet and her family last weekend. It was transformative for me, but because of existing government policy banning HELP for certain classes of migrants, not transformative for them. […]
Giving a voice to a million Have Nots
A new report highlights the crushing disadvantage of lack of access to government funding for migrants who have come to Australia on humanitarian visas – allowed to stay, but not […]
Regulation rules over uni independence
There is a “pattern of actual or proposed interference in matters previously left to academic or university judgment,” HE governance expert Professor Andrew Norton has warned. In a post released […]