New teacher quality centre at UC

03/06/2013 by
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University of Canberra Media Centre    |    30 May 2013 The University of Canberra is to receive $26 million to house a new Centre for Quality Teaching and Learning, which will deliver professional skills and applied, practice-led research to support the introduction of Government’s National Plan for School Improvement reforms.  The new centre will collaborate with universities, researchers and teachers to support professional development for ACT teachers to “grow and develop, find new ways for teachers to be more effective and assist in the implementation of systems for continuous teacher performance feedback.” University of Canberra vice-chancellor Professor Stephen Parker says, … [Read more...]

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Vic TAFEs bleed

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The Australian     |    31 May 2013 Half of a government rescue package of $200 million (over 4 years) for Victorian TAFEs has been purloined from earlier allocations, despite new figures showing the embattled system has moved closer to the wall.  Victoria's 14 standalone TAFEs managed a combined operating surplus of just $58.5 million last year, down from $98m in 2011 and $192m in 2010.  This leaves each institute with an average $4m surplus – compared to an average $57m at the state’s eight universities – to cover unforeseen expenses and obligations such as long service leave and capital works co-contributions. The Victorian Auditor-General assessed just four TAFEs as being at low … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budget, Coalition policies, Early edition, TAFE, Uncategorized, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , ,

Swinburne goes smokefree

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Swinburne University News    |    30 May 2013 Swinburne University of Technology's Australian campuses will become smoke free, with smoking banned indoors  and  outdoors,  from 12 August this year. The decision to go smoke free was announced by Swinburne Vice-Chancellor, Professor Linda Kristjanson, with the Victorian Minister for Health, David Davis, and the Executive Director of QUIT Victoria, Fiona Sharkie, at Parliament House in Melbourne on 30 May .  In making the announcement, Kristjanson said: In addition to the existing smoke-free environment in our buildings, enclosed spaces and university vehicles, all outdoor areas at Swinburne's Hawthorn, Prahran, Croydon and … [Read more...]

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Australian Financial Review 3 June 2013

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This is the   Australian Financial Review's  own summary of lead items in its online education supplement. As this is a subscription service, you or your organisation will need to have a subscription to The Australian Financial Review to view the full article. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Monash enthusiastic about graduate campus in China Monash is the first foreign university to be granted a licence to operate in China in more than a decade. $23bn crisis looms for university buildings Australian universities are let down by the poor quality of their buildings and infrastructure. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budget, Early edition, General, Government, Higher education policy, International, International students, Monash, MOOCs, Queensland University, Tertiary media, universities, University of Melbourne, University of NSW, University of Queensland Tagged With: , , , ,

Bush med school put on ice

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The Australian    |    1 June 2013   A  proposal from Charles Sturt and La Trobe universities for a new regional-based medical school has been put on ice by the commonwealth government, which says there isn't enough capacity in hospitals and clinics to support additional internships. A spokesman for health minister Tanya Plibersek  says the government is working with the states and territories to avert a repeat of last year's crisis when it seemed about 180 international medical students would be left without the internships they needed to qualify as doctors.   The government is committed to ensuring that there is sufficient capacity for high quality … [Read more...]

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UC joins with TAFEs to create polytec network

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University of Canberra Media Centre    |    31 May 2013 A new network of tertiary institutions is seeking to harness the best of vocational and higher education. The Australian Polytechnic Network (APN) is being founded by the University of Canberra, Melbourne’s Holmesglen Institute, Northern Sydney Institute, South Western Sydney Institute and Brisbane’s Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE. The formation of the new grouping follows a decision of the now minister for tertiary education, Craig Emerson, to reverse a decision of former minister Chris Evans to now allow Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) for delivery of University of Canberra degrees at the network member campuses from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Canberra University, Commonwealth policies, Early edition, Government, Higher education policy, Holmesglen TAFE, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, University of Canberra, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , ,