Invest in TAFE blog

11/10/2012 By
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11 October 2012 With TAFE struggling across the country with budget cuts and the impact of "marketisation", the Invest in Quality, Invest in TAFE campaign has established a blog site  to encourage those interested in what is happening to TAFE around the country to contribute to the debate and discussion.  The first post surveys the state of the sector. Three states – Victoria, NSW and Queensland – are feeling the impact of savage state government budget cuts to TAFE budgets, with the combined effect of a shift to full competition for funding combining with the state government budget cuts in Victoria to place TAFE in that state on the brink of disaster. In Victoria on 13 … [Read more...]

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Flinders teams up with TAFE

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |   9 October  2012 Flinders has become the latest university to guarantee entry to TAFE graduates, unveiling 41 dual offer programs available from next year.  The programs range from accounting, public sector management and international business to digital media, environmental management and geoscience.  Students can emerge with vocational qualifications from certificate IV to advanced diploma plus related bachelor degrees, after between three and five-and-a-half years of full-time equivalent study. The university says the arrangement will particularly benefit regional people, with half of the 21 participating TAFE campuses located outside Adelaide. This … [Read more...]

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The Scan Main Edition 11 October 2012

11/10/2012 By
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Melbourne top dog Melbourne University's position as Australia’s leading university, as measured by various league tables, was confirmed with the release of the research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking.   Melbourne ranked 35 in the world, ahead of Sydney at 61 and University of Queensland on 72.  ANU, usually Melbourne’s closest Australian challenger, languishes in this particular ranking coming in at 172 internationally and 6th nationally. [Continue reading]... Grants freeze threatens research Industry could pull the plug on millions of dollars of promised research funding because of uncertainty over the Commonwealth government's freeze on discretionary spending in … [Read more...]

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Melbourne top dog

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    11 October 2012 Melbourne University's position as Australia’s leading university, as measured by various league tables, was confirmed with the release of the research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking.   Melbourne ranked 35 in the world, ahead of Sydney at 61 and University of Queensland on 72.  ANU, usually Melbourne’s closest Australian challenger, languishes in this particular ranking coming in at 172 internationally and 6th nationally Australia posted 13 institutions in the top 500 of the National Taiwan University Ranking. Australia has two top 10 institutions in specific areas: UQ in the subject area of environment and ecology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Macquarie University, Monash, Rankings, Research, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, University of Tasmania, Univesity of Western Australia, UNSW Tagged With: ,

The 2012 Ig Noble Prizes for Improbable Research

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11 October 2012 Nobel Prize laureates Eric Maskin, Rich Roberts and Dudley Herschbach lean over behind a mini Eiffel Tower during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) It's the Nobel Prize season, with daily announcements coming from Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden of this year's recipients of the prestigious awards.  Late in September the Ig Noble Prizes for "improbable research that makes people laugh and then think" were announced in a ceremony at Harvard University.   This year's recipients include Dutch researchers who won the psychology prize for studying why leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower look smaller; four Americans who took … [Read more...]

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Job cuts continue

11/10/2012 By
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11 October 2012 "Downsizing" continues apace across th sector, reports the National Tertiary Education Union NTEU. Over 100 general staff at the University of New England (UNE) are slated to lose their jobs through a series of restructures. Thirty-six jobs have already got the chop in human resources, the printery and financial services with more tipped to go in marketing and public affairs and facilities management. Around 25% of academic staff in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University will be cut and hundreds of subjects closed down. While ANU has been forced to back down on its original proposal to declare all 32 academic and general staff … [Read more...]

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Grants freeze threatens research

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The Australian    |    10 October 2012 Industry could pull the plug on millions of dollars of promised research funding because of uncertainty over the Commonwealth government's freeze on discretionary spending in its bid to some how, any how  amass a budget surplus. Unease over the delays is increasing among industry-linked researchers who have spent years cultivating industry support. The ARC usually offers two funding rounds a year for Linkage Projects that must include industry partners prepared to at least match any ARC contribution. It funded $100 million worth last year but the first round this year was scrapped following an announcement in December that $236m over … [Read more...]

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Need to ‘wind back creep of uni regulation’

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    10 October 2012 Higher education needs “a back-to-the future” evolution, according to Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven, who says a universities commission* could redress problems in universities' "mega-governance". Craven says the overarching governance of the sector has evolved in a largely random way, with "natural regulation creep" as universities increased their reliance on Commonwealth federal funding. We've got to the point where it's not set towards diversity or innovation, it's set towards compliance and uniformity.  But the creation of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), which is a much more … [Read more...]

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UWA embraces MOOC

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    10 October 2012 The University of Western Australia is the latest Australian university to embrace the "massive open online course" (MOOC) movement, from next year proposing to offer three courses using the Class2Go software created by Stanford University. While the University of Melbourne recently joined Coursera, the company through which Stanford, Princeton and 33 partners offer learning to the globe, Class2Go is a platform Stanford developed to service the needs of its own on-campus students and staff, as well as for delivering public courses. Like Stanford, UWA will use Class2Go to offer a "flipped classroom" model in which filmed lectures and … [Read more...]

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