La Trobe Open Day – a sort of Homecoming
Driving into La Trobe’s Open Day in Bundoora this weekend felt like some sort of homecoming. I took our youngest, Josh, to his first Open Day there in 2010 when […]
Appointments & Achievements (7 August)
Alan Anderson (Charles Darwin U) wins the 2024 Ecological Society of Australia Gold Medal. Agnes Bosanquet (Macquarie U) is one of journal Higher Education Research and Development’s three peer-reviewers of […]
Why competitive strategies harden universities arteries
“Strategic bureaucracy” may be an oxymoron, but it explains how universities work – and don’t. Peter Woelert (Uni Melbourne) researches the ways universities are run, previously pointing to a disconnect […]
The Empire strikes back on caps
The Government’s plans to cap international enrolments at universities is “draconian, interventionist and amounts to economic vandalism,“ the Group of Eight’s Vicki Thomson told a Senate committee yesterday. However, Ms […]