Appointments and Achievements (December 7th)
Gabriele Bammer (ANU) is elected Inaugural President of the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (https://itd-alliance.org/) The new executive team for the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education […]
The Week That Was (December 7)
Less than two years into her five year term, Australian Research Council CEO Judi Zielke, leaves Friday, “stepping down due a health issue.” The ARC announcement cited, an “increase in […]
Australia shines again in sustainability rankings
QS has launched the second edition of its Sustainability Rankings this week, with 16 Australian universities ranked in the world’s top 100 compared to 12 last year. This year, there […]
Trust and Kindness critical to HE success
The idea of ‘third space’ in the higher education context was first introduced by Celia Whitchurch in 2012, describing the existence of a space in which a staff member’s day-to-day […]
Why (some) HDR students want to leave
UK not-for-profit analyst Advance HE included four Australian universities in its ’23 survey of HDR postgrads and found experiences are much the same the world over.Charlotte Holden reports that 80% […]
Bid to reinvigorate Oz Manufacturing through research
The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation is open for business, “unlocking billions of dollars in investment finance to rebuild Australia’s competitiveness across the manufacturing value chain.” $15bn in fact. Industry and […]
AI: will you be law enforcement or leader?
Last week, an earnest group of Artificial Intelligence fans gathered (online and asynchronously of course) and lit a metaphoric candle to celebrate the creation of the 10,000th AI app. At […]
New measure reveals business school impact
Macquarie University has quietly ended the year with a market analysis that could transform the pecking order of Business programs in Australia. In an oblique contrast to the many monetized, […]
Seven arguments against exams
“Relatively few of the perceived academic benefits of high-stakes examinations have a strong evidence base,” Raoul A. Mulder, Sarah French and Ashton Dickerson (Uni Melbourne) argue in a new paper. […]