12 September 2013 Teachabout is an organisation set up by University of Melbourne students and ex-students to run school holiday programs for children in remote communities. It was established in 2010, with funding from the university and the Cybec Foundation charitable fund, by a group of students from Melbourne University’s Trinity College who had visited Minyerri in the Northern Territory the previous year. But the Teachabout people wanted the program to be more than just a boredom cure. So our program has a twist…We incorporate literacy and numeracy into fun, engaging activities with a fundamental commitment to community involvement and cultural activities. Our aim is to … [Read more...]
CQU gets the go ahead as a dual sector university
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CQU News | 11 September 2013 The Queensland government has given the green light to the merger of Central Queensland University (CQU) and Central Queensland Institute of TAFE to create Australia’s sixth dual sector university, spanning both higher education and vocational education and training. CQU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman says the decision will change the face of post-school education and training in the central Queensland region: Our dual sector university will transform the lives of so many people in the region, by providing them with seamless access to the full range of post-school education and training options and allowing them to ‘skill up’ for the unique workforce … [Read more...]
The Scan | #137 | 12 September 2013
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Australian unis rate highly but slipping The 2014 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings show that while the majority of Australian universities have slipped on the ladder of the world's leading institutions, seven still in rank in the world top 100 and twenty universities - half of the entire system - make the top 400.The top universities in Australia were: ANU at 27 (down 3 places from last year), Melbourne, (31, up 5 places) Sydney (38, up 1 place), University of Queensland (43, up 3), University of NSW (52, steady) Monash … [Read more...]
Little waste to cut: Shiel
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Australian Financial Review | 9 September 2013 Margaret Sheil, the former head of the Australian Research Council and now provost at the University of Melbourne – a person you would expect to have a sound understanding of both the value and the cost of research – says that contrary to views within the incoming Coalition government, there’s little evidence of “fringe or wasteful” research. According to Sheil, the ARC grants process is highly detailed and accountable – a proposition that Coalition finance spokesperson Andrew Robb has seemed to agree with at the same time as decrying fringe research. He has said he is “appalled at the amount of time established researchers have to … [Read more...]
Abbott urged to put learning first
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Australian Financial Review | 9 September 2013 Australian university vice-chancellors, as well as lobby groups for the schools and TAFE sectors, have called on newly-elected Prime Minister Tony Abbott to focus strongly on education. Among the policies announced during the election campaign were a New Colombo Plan to boost foreign study in Asia, a review of the national schools curriculum, a greater emphasis on science and languages in teaching and research, and maintaining the increased funding promised by the previous government under the Better Schools scheme. The latter however will apply only for four years rather than six. The vice-chancellor of the University of … [Read more...]
Deakin and Monash counter on rural medical training
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The Australian | 5 September 2013 Deakin and Monash universities are proposing to establish a network of regional medical training centres in Victoria in a direct challenge to rival plans from La Trobe and Charles Sturt for a new regional medical school, the Murray-Darling Medical School. They are seeking $15 million in federal government capital funding to upgrade facilities at Geelong and Bendigo in order to provide more regionally based training places for medical specialists and general practitioners. Small training centres would also be established at Warrnambool, Hamilton, Ballarat, Horsham, Colac, Mildura, Castlemaine, Traralgon and Bairnsdale. Meanwhile Charles … [Read more...]
Australian unis rate highly – but not as highly as before
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The Australian | 11 September 2013 The 2014 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings show that while the majority of Australian universities have slipped on the ladder of the world's leading institutions, seven still rank in the world top 100 and twenty universities - half of the entire system - make the top 400. The top universities in Australia were: ANU at 27 (down 3 places from last year), Melbourne, (31, up 5 places) Sydney (38, up 1 place), University of Queensland (43, up 3), University of NSW (52, steady) Monash (=69, down 8 places) and the University of Western Australia (84, down 5 places). Other well-ranked universities that experienced big falls were … [Read more...]
The Australian Higher Education Supplement 11 September 2013
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em>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 full article. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 'Spend effect' can cost students Julie Hare A THIRD of Victorian school leavers with an ATAR of 98 or above applied to study medicine at Monash University last year. Author defends Muslim sex study 'waste' Bernard Lane ANTHROPOLOGIST Lisa Wynn is surprised to find herself a political case … [Read more...]
