LH Martin Institute Insights September 2013

Apply by January 2014. Need more info? Take part in an upcoming online info session or go to our website.

Our two-year, part time Masters program is tailored to the needs of academic and professional leaders in tertiary education institutions. Students gain expert perspectives on tertiary education systems and practical skills for leading and managing successfully in the tertiary education context. Open to Australian and international students with five years relevant work experience and an undergraduate degree.

Apply by January 2014. Need more info? Take part in an upcoming online info session or go to our website.

A one-year, part time program for current and aspiring managers* in tertiary education institutions. Similar to the Masters, students gain expert perspectives on tertiary education systems and skills for managing successfully in the tertiary education context. Open to Australian and international students with two years relevant work experience and an undergraduate degree.

* Aspiring managers must have completed our Emerging Leaders and Managers Program to be eligible for this program.

Apply by January 2014. Need more info? Take part in an upcoming online info session or go to our website.

A one-year, fully online program for quality assurance practitioners in tertiary education or staff of educational institutions that are establishing or improving their internal quality assurance systems. Consists of a comprehensive academic program addressing the evolving demands of quality assurance in the sector. Open to Australian and international students with at least two years relevant work experience and an undergraduate degree.

Thank you to all who dropped by our stand at TEMC 2013 in Hobart. We were thrilled to see many old faces and say hello to new ones. Thank you also to those who participated in our prize giveaway. The winners were:

• Jennie Connor from University of South Australia, who won a free module in our 2014 Tertiary Education Leadership program;
• Manita Stokes from Deakin University, who won a free short course of her choice in 2014;
• Ilse Hindle from The University of Auckland, Mark Medosh from Queensland University of Technology, and Sarah Gatenby-Clark from University of Tasmania who each won a copy of the 2013 book ‘Job Satisfaction around the Academic World’.

Two reports focusing on research and innovation have been released by the OECD. Both involved the work of LH Martin Institute staff and have been produced under the OECD’s Innovation, Higher Education and Research for Development (IHERD) banner. They will be used, among others, as a base for a workshop with participants from 10 different French speaking countries from West and Central Africa.

1 October 2013: Emerging Leaders and Managers Program (eLAMP)  workshop, Melbourne. *For current eLAMP participants only*

16 October 2013: Information sessions for prospective GCQA students, online.

18 October 2013: Information sessions for prospective MTEM/GCTEM students, online.

21 October 2013: National Student Engagement Forum: Creating an Engaged Student Experience, Melbourne.

23 October 2013: National Student Engagement Forum: Creating an Engaged Student Experience, Sydney.

23 October 2013: Free seminar: VET in Germany, Melbourne and via webinar.

25 October 2013: National Student Engagement Forum: Creating an Engaged Student Experience, Brisbane.

30-31 October 2013: Conference: Managing Research and Innovation for Social and Economic Development, Canberra.

11-21 November 2013: Study Mission to review apprenticeships in Germany and United Kingdom.

20 November 2013: Information sessions for prospective GCQA students, online.

22 November 2013: Information sessions for prospective MTEM/GCTEM students, online.

4 December 2013: Information sessions for prospective GCQA students, online.

6 December 2013: Information sessions for prospective MTEM/GCTEM students, online.

January 2014: Applications deadline for our Masters and Graduate Certificate programs.

Ongoing (register and start anytime): Emerging Leaders and Managers Program, online.

Astrophysicist Amaya Moro-Martín’s open letter to the Spanish prime minister asks for her dignity back as a researcher, The Guardian, 28 August.

The happiest universities to work for in the US are…not those that pay the most, Huffington Post, 29 August.

Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man responsible for the death of 77 and wounding of 232 people in a 2011 attack in Oslo, has been admitted to study political science modules at the University of Oslo. The University’s Rector explained the decision to grant Breivik access to the program, The Guardian, 13 September.

Two of mainland China’s largest universities, Peking and Tsinghua, will start offering free online courses in partnership with EdX, South China Morning Post, 19 September.

The Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, currently available to students from the Commonwealth, the United States and Germany, could soon expand to students from China, Russia, Brazil and elsewhere thanks to a $120-million donation from a Canadian businessman, The Globe and Mail, 19 September.

Merger of Malaysia’s Education and Higher Education ministries will see ‘one education master plan‘ for the country with particular attention paid to public university autonomy, The Malaysian Insider, 20 September.

Engineering is the preferred undergraduate degree of higher education students in the Middle East according to a recent survey, Gulf News, 25 September.

Research Fellow Dr Nick Fredman wrote about effectiveness of mid-level qualifications in ‘Where the middle road leads‘, Campus Review, 16 September.

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The banner image in this edition is of former ASX Chief Investment Analyst Prof. Zoltan Matolcsy teaching in our recent Budgeting & Financial Management for Tertiary Education Managers workshop in Melbourne.

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