AI challenges all modalities, not only digital ones, because it changes how learning must be evidenced and observed. A new framework from OES staff proposes a new approach to measuring learning.
Humanities disciplines have been all but ignored in the nation’s new R&D blueprint – but their advocates are doing their best not to be perceived as irrelevant.
Ahelee Rahman, a student at the Baker Institute, argues that group work, while far from loved, is a long way down the list of priorities for young people in HE right now.
Australia has “exceptional research” the former Industry and Science Minster told parliament last week, but, “too often we invent here and commercialise elsewhere.”
The moves, the gongs and the news on new hires over the past week in Australian HE.
Australia will have a National Innovation Council to “create a unified and coordinated national effort encompassing goal setting, strategic planning and evaluation,” for research and development, according to the final SERD report.
Regional vets are essential to protect Australia’s agricultural industries, but there are serious issues arising from the bias toward urban course delivery.
If we are serious about mission-driven R&D, then implementation of SERD must recognise that the shift required is from a system designed around sovereign entities to one that operates as a sovereign system.
Melbourne’s research infrastructure will “quietly decay”, unless there is a new, coordinated approach to fund maintenance and renewal.
High fees as a result of JRG and increased cost of living have been widely suggested as key factors, but Monash University HE policy guru Andrew Norton has plunged into the data and emerged with some intriguing insights.
Understanding what retention means, deeper than relying on blanket cohort or institution-based metrics, and sharing best-practice to get improved results is vital to the future of the sector.
In a precedent-setting demand, union members at the University of Melbourne are calling for a four-day week for non-academic staff, “or equivalent reduction in ordinary hours.”
New figures shed light on the true cost of the hated Job Ready Graduates fee scheme – with the IRU suggesting a new approach to replacing it.
Key news of the week in HE, including next steps with AI introduction and use, and a heady cocktail of regulation, funding uncertainty and disruptors.
Bill Shorten gets what universities have to do has changed; now all he has to do is convince the people who work in them and find more money to make the system work.
Eight centuries after the medieval western universities first claimed jurisdiction over their own affairs, the modern Australian university remains a self-governing corporation in law. Yet the context in which that autonomy operates has been transformed.
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