Young to head Go8

05/12/2013 by
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Group of Eight News    |      December 2013 The Group of Eight (Go8) Board of Directors have  elected Professor Ian Young AO, vice-chancellor and president of The Australian National University (ANU), to serve as its next chair from January 2014. Young will replace Professor Fred Hilmer AO, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales, who has chaired the Go8 over the last two years. Young was appointed Vice-Chancellor of ANU in March 2011. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology from 2003 to 2011. He was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide from 1999 to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Group of 8, Higher education policy Tagged With: , ,

Vic TAFE merger talks broaden

05/12/2013 by
Merger

The Australian     |      5 December 2013Four institutions now talkingVictoria’s Advance TAFE and GippsTAFE  are  involved in talks with eastern Melbourne’s Chisholm Institute and the dual-sector University of Ballarat “to explore the best fit in terms of organisational objectives and stakeholder needs”.Apparently, negotiations between Advance and GippsTAFE are well advanced, with   “a number of points of agreement” reached in areas such as curriculum-based collaboration and “back office sharing”.Advance CEO Shaun McDonagh said the institutions wanted to choose their partners before considering what the partnerships might look like, with mergers being a possibility.McDonagh said the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Federation University, TAFE, University of Ballarat, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , ,

Pay up or your data dies

05/12/2013 by
Crypto Locker2

5 December 2013A new virus has arrived that will take your data hostage and promise to give it back if you pay a ransomDevastating malware that makes users' computer files unreadable until they pay a hefty ransom has begun infiltrating Australian computers after wreaking havoc in Britain and the US. The so-called "ransomware", known as CryptoLocker, silently encrypts files on Windows computers, along with files on any connected network storage or USB devices, rendering them unreadable. Once the encryption process finishes, it tells users to pay a ransom, equivalent to between$300-600.Although CryptoLocker itself is readily removed, files remain encrypted in a way which researchers have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life & stuff, Technology Tagged With: ,

FactCheck: is Australian education highly equitable?

05/12/2013 by

The Conversation    |    5 December 2013 “The OECD says that we are a high equity nation in terms of our students… I don’t believe there is an equity problem in Australia.” – Education Minister Christopher Pyne, Lateline interview, 26 November 2013. In the heat of political tensions around school funding, Education Minister Christopher Pyne has been forced to respond to longstanding debates about equity in Australian education. On ABC’s Lateline last week, Pyne said Australia is a “high equity nation” according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He also said he does not believe there is “an equity problem” in our country. So what does the OECD … [Read more...]

Filed Under: PISA, Schools Tagged With: , ,
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