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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, opaque rankings systems with contorting biases that tend to dominate headlines, the new report on business school performance isn’t even
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. It’s an assumption that needs challenging now, they write, given that the assessment cheating potential of AI technologies is driving
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 is announced again, including the 1000 guaranteed for SA universities. 700 of them are for the now Uni Adelaide and
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 Cassidy-Welch (Australian Catholic U) * Tom Calma (Uni Canberra) * Annie Clarke (Uni Sydney) * Justin Clemens (Uni Melbourne) *
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 Haustein (Uni Ottawa) and colleagues in an update of an on-going investigation. It comes on top of authors and their
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 technology and what it means for teaching and learning practise, and especially assessment. The Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency
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 a new report from independent Commonwealth agency, Industry, Innovation and Science Australia. And what we need, but aren’t getting, is
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. Harriet (name changed) grew up in Zimbabwe, before moving to a refugee area in a neighbouring African country in search
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 allowed a loan to study. While 40% of Australians aged 25-34 hold a Bachelor degree and above, the proportion of
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 this week, Professor Norton raises concerns about Government wading into areas that had previously been the exclusive preserve of universities.
New action to combat sexual assault on campus
The Federal Government proposes a national student ombudsman with powers to investigate student complaints and resolve disputes with higher education providers on gender violence. The Ombudsman would also oversight universities on their relations with students across everything from course administration to addressing “unconscious and structural bias” in research staffing funding.
The Great Day In: Next week’s conference
We have had recovery in international student numbers, the trauma and triumph of emerging AI and potentially cataclysmic Accord reforms around the corner. Now is the perfect time to consider the challenges that 2023 has brought the sector and what that means for 2024. The Future Campus team have pulled
Appointments and Achievements (November 23rd)
ANU historian Frank Bongiorno is in-coming president of the Council for the humanities, arts and social sciences. Denis Fougerouse (Curtin U) wins the Mineralogical Society of America’s ‘2024 award for young researchers. The Mark Hughes Foundation, for brain cancer research, announces grants to; * ChenChen Jiang, Hubert Hondermarck, James Lynam,
The Week That Was (November 23)
In breaking news. “The Melbourne Graduate School of Education is proud to announce that we will soon become the Faculty of Education. 100 years ago, the inaugural Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne was established, and from 1 January 2024, the name will revert back. We believe that
Academy calls for beefed up research scrutiny
The Australian Academy of Science calls for a “a robust and fair” research integrity process. There are regular calls for a national agency to oversight research integrity and these are always louder when an especially egregious case of plagiarism, or fabrication of evidence is public enough to get a researcher
Researchers ambivalent about what OA can do with their data
A revolution in research as AI searches masses of open data maybe the next big thing, but researchers are not ready for an imminent arrival. The ’23 edition of Digital Science and partners survey of researchers attitudes to open data finds they still do not believe they are appropriately credited
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