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…acceptable academic inquiry?
The Australian | 26 September 2012 An anti-vaccine campaigner doing her PhD at University of Wollongong has maintained her candidature despite implying the family of a child who died from...
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Academics behaving badly? Universities and online reputations
The Conversation | 29 September 2012 Trying to control your reputation online is a bit like trying to clean up wee in a toddler pool. You are much more likely to get your hands dirty than achieve...
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Getting some quality into the standards debate
18 October 2012 Over the last year governments have changed the names and role of their vocational and higher education regulators from assuring quality to maintaining standards. This minor change in...
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The Australian Higher Education Supplement 20 February 2013
This is The Australian‘s own summary of lead items in its online edition. As this is a subscription service, you or your organisation will need to have a subscription to The Australian to view the...
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Regulatory reviews
8 March 2013 The Higher Education Standards Panel, which advises and makes recommendations to the Commonwealth minister responsible for tertiary education and research on the Higher Education Standards...
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Numbers that don’t add up
UNSW News Room | 20 March 2013 With universities paying about $100,000 a year to employ full-time managers dedicated to liaising with ranking agencies and “clever reporting”, rather than a surge...
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Millions wasted in education?
That’s not what the evidence says, according to Andrew Vann 28 March 2013 Over recent years we have seen a wave of angst about Australia’s school education. The complex issue of teacher quality is, of...
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The Changing PhD
Group of Eight | March 2013 Are PhD graduates unemployable? Are we are producing too many PhDs? Does the public good of their research outweigh the public cost of their training? These are some...
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TDA Newsletter 8 April 2013
Business leaders among sacked TAFE chairs Despite the Victorian government’s claims that the recent removal of several of the state’s TAFE chairs was due to their inability to lead “a large and...
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CDU’s new suite of “quality assured” education courses
CDU News | 8 April 2013 Charles Darwin University says a suite of education programs its offering this semester is among the first in Australia to align with new national quality standards. Each...
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