Saturday, September 3, 2011

August 2011 higher education news in Australia & New Zealand

Higher ed news reported in August 2011 included the items below. Items cover those relevant to both the tertiary student campus experience and the institutional and policy level in higher education. The summary focusses primarily on Australia and New Zealand.

The full summary is available via the links at the foot of this post.
  • When student debt blows out
  • Students fear merger may result in 'TAFE degrees'
  • Red tape cuts US plan for Adelaide 'university city'
  • Business and universities: Essential partnership for a successful knowledge economy
  • Fill the campus gap with polytechnics
  • Commissioners appointed to new tertiary education quality agency, TEQSA
  • All is not quite right in the hallowed halls of academe
  • Services suffer under VSM: Auckland University students' union
  • Leading Indigenous identity to present Lingiari lecture
  • University of Melbourne moves up global rankings
  • NZ Universities consider shorter Masters degrees
  • Queensland govt approves dual-sector
  • NZQA raises uni entrance requirements
  • Go8 universities warn on uncapping of places
Read the higher ed news summary for August in full at:
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International education news: August 2011

Summarised news items on international education for August 2011 are now online. Items reported in August include the following and many more, available in full via the links at the foot of this post:
  • Are student loan policies effective?
  • A Level Flops Targeted By Oz Tourist Chiefs
  • International student round-table issues
  • Immigration officials cancel 159 student visas after airport interviews
  • State premiers look at plan to give foreign students special visas
  • New Zealand to streamline student visas
  • China-ASEAN education collaboration on fast track
  • Resorting to headhunters a smart move in the search for the best
  • Must try much harder – report on universities
  • We have 18 billion reasons to find a strategy
  • Two years jail for IELTS fraud
  • Is Higher Education More Like a Business? No, Business Is More Like Higher Ed
  • Australia and India foster higher education linkages
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Tech news in education in August 2011

Technology news relevant to education in August 2011 was relatively light, but included the following:
  • OrgSync Reaches 200 Higher Education Customers and 500,000 Registered Users
  • A textbook case for digital learning
  • Social media sells education
  • University of Tasmania Adopts Desire2Learn Learning Suite
  • University of Auckland fears high cost as anti-piracy laws loom
  • University of Sydney adopts desktop virtualisation
  • Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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Higher education summary for July 2011: Australia, NZ

Australian and New Zealand higher education news in August 2011 included the items listed below and many more:
  • University of Canberra, Canberra Institute of Technology pushed to merge for survival
  • Aussie attitudes killing our unis' prospects, vice-chancellor Glyn Davis says
  • NZUSA mobilising opposition to Bill
  • Education Investment Fund Regional Priorities Round
  • Student entitlements need not be bad for business
  • Transitioning from study into work
  • The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s
  • Australian Council for Educational Research: Research Conference 2011 - Indigenous Education - Pathways to success
  • Are Australian universities in a 'bubble'?
  • USQ and TAFE join in historic pact
  • National Campus Art Prize (Gen Y’s Archibald) - Registrations now open
  • Indigenous education: what have we learnt?
  • $500 million Education Investment Fund to transform regional universities
  • Here's a lesson for Australia's education policymakers: failure begets failure
  • Wait continues for student visa, Youth Allowance reviews
Please visit the following ACUMA Incorporated profiles to view the complete higher education news summary for July 2011:
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International education news in July 2011

July 2011 international education news items included those below, and covered news at both the institutional and university level, and at the level of international student issues and concerns.
  • University of Tokyo PEAKS program
  • Figures for international student enrolments can be misleading
  • Flaws in application of language test scores
  • Smoke-free campus: Troy University bans all tobacco use, beginning 2012
  • Australia and China's higher education revolution
  • Australian universities mediocre: Indian students
  • British bid to attract 10,000 Brazilian students
  • Towards quality undergraduate education
  • Higher Ed internationalisation: why awareness of cultural conflict matters
  • Autonomy for five Malaysian varsities
The international education news summary for July can be viewed:
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Technology in education news summary: July 2011

News items reported in July 2011 with relevance to education technology included:
  • University of Western Australia consolidates to private cloud
  • Murdoch University improves website
  • RMIT goes Google, says no to Microsoft's Cloud
  • Government creates advisory group on IT in education
  • Web Accessibility for All
  • Tribal Selected by Australasian Education Sector
  • Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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Technology in education news summary: July 2011

News items reported in July 2011 with relevance to education technology included:
  • University of Western Australia consolidates to private cloud
  • Murdoch University improves website
  • RMIT goes Google, says no to Microsoft's Cloud
  • Government creates advisory group on IT in education
  • Web Accessibility for All
  • Tribal Selected by Australasian Education Sector
  • Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

June 2011 Higher Education News: Australia, New Zealand

June 2011 Higher Education News: Australia, New Zealand

The Australasian Campus Union Managers' Association (ACUMA) monthly higher education news summary for June 2011 has been published, and is available to view online, or download in pdf format.

Outlining items relevant to Australian and New Zealand universities and tertiary education institutions, and items affecting university students, the monthly higher education news summary for June contains items including the following:
  • A smoother path awaits academics
  • Australian Financial Review Higher Education Conference 2011
  • Big campuses annexing vocational education and training turf
  • Should TAFE teachers be paid the same as university lecturers?
  • Uni elections hit by claims of spending cap breaches
  • New Senate likely to pass $250 student amenities fee
  • World leading regulator builds on transformative higher education reform
  • Universities look for benefactors to close funding gap
  • Call to scrap child-care HECS debt
  • Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association Conference
  • Canberra uni-TAFE link less than a perfect match
To read the June 2011 higher education news summary for Australia and New Zealand, please visit:
Monthly higher education news archives

The monthly archives for ACUMA's higher education news, spanning general items, international education news, and technology news, are also available:
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June 2011 International Education news: Australia, New Zealand

June 2011 International Education news: Australia, New Zealand

ACUMA has published the monthly international education news summary for June 2011.

Focussing where appropriate on the Australian and New Zealand international education industries, ACUMA's monthly international education news summary for June 2011 covers items affecting international students, and institutions both in Australia/NZ and overseas.

International education news reported in June 2011, included in the June summary, include:
  • Australia woos Indian students with scholarships
  • Malaysian Students Down Under To Meet In Spirit Of Patriotism
  • NSW back tracks on cheap travel for overseas students
  • Profiles reveal China's rising global stature
  • Push to attract Japanese students here
  • India: Students may delay foreign universities bill
  • Europe's new university ranking system unveiled
  • Slower growth for higher education exports
  • Australia to offer 400 scholarships to Indonesians
  • Malaysia: MUST struggles on despite break with MIT
  • International education sector strong
  • Chinese classes miss point
  • Singapore education group to set up university in Malaysia
To view, or download, the June 2011 international education news summary, please visit:
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June 2011 Technology in Education news summary: Australia, New Zealand

June 2011 Technology in Education news summary: Australia, New Zealand

ACUMA Incorporated has published the June 2011 technology in education news summary, outlining items impacting on the university student experience, and campus services generally, in Australia and New Zealand.

Covered in the June 2011 education technology update are, amongst other items:
  • Australian university failed to secure students' data and broke law: Privacy Commissioner
  • Curtin University deploys Office 365
  • ‘Photovine’ is Google’s Latest Trademark for Photo Sharing?
  • Facebook for iPad on the Way
  • Apple Wants To Stop Concert Filming With iPhones
  • Twitter (Finally) Adds Automatic Link Shortening To Twitter.com
  • University of the Sunshine Coast streamlines software licensing, reduces excess certificates
  • Brumby and Downer to guide Huawei
  • Smartphone payments set to revolutionise retail industry
  • Google Rolls Out +1 Button To Publishers
To view the June 2011 technology update online, or to download it in pdf format, please visit:

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Higher education news summaries for May 2011: Australian and New Zealand

Higher education news summaries for May 2011: Australian and New Zealand

ACUMA's monthly higher education news summaries for May 2011 are online, and are available to view or download in pdf format.

Covering items reported in May 2011, the monthly new summaries provide links to articles across 3 categories relevant to Australian and New Zealand higher education, university and VET institutions:
  • General higher education news
  • International education news, and international student news
  • Technology with a likely impact on the campus experience
To view or download one or all of ACUMA's higher education news summaries for May 2011, visit:
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Higher Education news in April 2011: monthly summary

Higher Education news in April 2011: monthly summary

ACUMA's monthly higher education news summary for April 2011 is now available on Scribd.com, Issuu.com and via the ACUMA website.

Covering tertiary education sector news - university-level and the VET sector - reported in April 2011 in Australia and New Zealand, this monthly summary presents articles relevant both at the institutional level and relevant to the student experience. Articles include:
  • TAFE to follow American community college learning path
  • As universities expand students or the state will pay more for higher education
  • JCU: just watch as we grow
  • Interview with Steven Joyce - transcript
  • International Recognition Of Student Volunteer Army Demonstrates Power Of Students
  • Broadsides: Student loans (Jacinda Ardern, Nikki Kaye)
  • Unis reject state role in TEQSA
  • Australian Universities Take Steps to Increase Numbers of Indigenous Students and Academics
  • Universities' value to economy 'overlooked and underrated'
  • TEQSA statute vulnerable to High Court challenge
The full higher education news summary for April 2011 can be viewed online, or downloaded in pdf format, from the following locations:
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April 2011 International Education news summary

April 2011 International Education news summary

The April 2011 International Education news summary is available, covering items with relevance to:
  • Australian and New Zealand international education;
  • International students in Australia and New Zealand; and
  • Education on the international stage.
International education news items reported in April 2011 include, amongst many others:
  • Anger at wait on student visas
  • Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market
  • Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students
  • Macquarie University facing looming China crisis
  • Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy
  • Asia: Can the private sector boost participation?
  • Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones
  • Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy
  • A crisis in international education in Australia
  • Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions
  • Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students
To read the April 2011 International Education news summary from ACUMA Incorporated, or to download it in pdf format, please visit:
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April 2011 Technology in Education news round-up

April 2011 Technology in Education news round-up

ACUMA Incorporated, Australasia's peak representative body for senior staff in higher education campus service organisations, has published the April 2011 Technology in Education news round-up.

Covering items ranging from online learning developments to the impact of social media on the student experience, the April 2011 technology round-up covers items with a likely impact on education, including:
  • Open Source Group Seeks Support from Higher Ed for Mobile Initiative
  • Peer Review Gets a Whole New Meaning: Clinical Trials Turn to Social Media
  • Library eBooks Coming to the Kindle
  • Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education
  • The slow collapse of the ivory tower
  • Bond Uni enlists mobile tool for student recruitment
  • Think You’ll Make Big Bucks in Online Ed? Not So Fast, Experts Say
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Higher education news in March 2011: Summary for Australia and New Zealand

Higher education news in March 2011: Summary for Australia and New Zealand

ACUMA Incorporated, Australasia's peak representative body for staff in the higher education campus services sector, has published the March 2011 higher education news summary.

Focussing on issues and news relevant to higher education generally in Australia and New Zealand and, where applicable, impacting on campus service organisations, ACUMA's monthly education news summaries provide a comprehensive listing of news affecting the university and tertiary-level student experience.

Higher education news reported in March 2011 included:
  • (New Zealand) Student loan rebuild plan 'offensive'
  • Southern Cross University institution left to wither
  • Students need more help, says uni chief
  • Business backs deregulation of university student fees
  • Pay lecturers according to performance, report urges
  • Legislation introduced to establish the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
  • Universities Australia Good Practice Guidelines for Enhancing Student Safety
  • Gillard Government delivers national reform to Australia’s Vocational Education and Training sector
  • Partnership helps close the gap for Indigenous students
  • TEQSA bill unlikely to hand universities self-accreditation
  • Uni students get a free ride for too long with their HECS debt
  • Structural Adjustment Fund gives universities an edge
  • Road to success, first Indigenous Australian Rhodes Scholarship winner
To view the March 2011 ACUMA Incorporated higher education news summary online, or to download the education news collection in pdf format, please choose from the links below:
Sources are fully acknowledged in all summaries, with content provided via article title, introductory text and hyperlink only.
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International education news in March 2011: summary

International education news in March 2011: summary

ACUMA's international education news summary for March 2011 is now available online, both for viewing and for downloading.

As with previous summaries, news items are collected throughout each month, and are summarised to provide article titles, introductory text, acknowledgement of source and article links.

Issues internationally in education, and where applicable relevant to international education issues in Australia and New Zealand, in March 2011 included:
  • Back to the 1980s: VC warning over Willetts’ places plan
  • UK: Government eases crackdown on student visas
  • Draw up a refund plan for (Malaysian) universities
  • English test scam 'got too big'
  • CCC hears claims universities implicated in student scams
  • New legislation to strengthen the quality of Australian international education
  • Asia: Countries vying to become education hubs
  • Trends and drivers in internationalisation
  • China's ambitious plans to attract foreign students
  • Caution with offshore campuses
The full March 2011 international education news summary can be viewed online via the following:

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Technology news in education: March 2011 round-up

Technology news in education: March 2011 round-up

The March 2011 technology in education news round-up has been published by ACUMA Incorporated, Australasia's campus services representative body.

News items are collected and provided to ACUMA members on a near-daily basis by email, with monthly summaries provided publicly, providing article titles and links to the fully-acknowledged online source for each.

Technology news items reported in March 2011 with relevance to higher education include:
  • IELTS software ridiculed
  • Cloud email crawls to RMIT students, staff
  • Australia: Day of the iPad arrives
  • Technology transforms the lecture
  • Universities prepare for next Cloud wave
  • IT could split higher education
  • Tablet devices: iPad takes over as the lecture hall aid of choice
  • Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses
To download or view the March 2011 technology in education news summary online, please visit:


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Saturday, March 19, 2011

ACUMA President to present at Student Satisfaction in Higher Education Conference

ACUMA President to present at Informa Student Satisfaction in Higher Education Conference

ACUMA President, Mr Tom O'Sullivan, will be presenting at the inaugural Informa Student Satisfaction in Higher Education Conference, scheduled for June 21 and June 22 2011, in Melbourne, Australia.

To be held at the Rendezvous Hotel in Melbourne, the Informa Conference will cover various facets of university life from culture on campus to encouraging student success. Key issues which will be covered in the Conference include:
  • Student Experience;
  • Student Engagement;
  • Culture;
  • Student Evaluation and Feedback;
  • Student Participation and Services; and
  • Community on Campus.
More information on the Informa Student Satisfaction in Higher Education Conference, including brochure and agenda, can be found on the Informa website.

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Higher education news in February 2011: ACUMA Incorporated

Higher education news in February 2011: ACUMA Incorporated

The monthly Australian higher education news summary for February 2011 has been published by ACUMA Incorporated.

Covering higher education news in both Australia and New Zealand, the summary provides links to items reported dealing with both the institutional level and student experience in Australian and New Zealand higher education.

The February 2011 higher education news summary covers the following items, and more:
  • New ANU chief lands on our shores
  • Statement regarding TEQSA legislation
  • Risk-based approach to regulation
  • Higher education can help balance two-speed economy
  • Otago University Students' Association pushing for new members now
  • Gillard government avoids showdown on student bill it said was unconstitutional
  • Largest ever intake of Indigenous medical students announced
  • Doubts about new regulator for TAFE
  • Newcastle University asking 'too much'
  • Australian National University breaks $1b barrier
  • Call to guarantee tertiary access for every ACT student
  • UTAS wins top research marks
  • Notre Dame makes bid to go public
ACUMA's February 2011 tertiary education news summary can be viewed online, or downloaded in pdf format, from:


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International education news summary: February 2011

International education news summary: February 2011

The monthly international education news summary for February 2011 is now available via ACUMA Incorporated's document-sharing profiles.

Dealing with movements and developments in higher education on the international stage - outside of Australia and New Zealand - the February 2011 international education news summary presents news covering both general overseas education, and relating to the experience of the international student engaging in higher education in Australasia.

News items include the following and more:
  • Visa proposals threaten UK interests
  • University of California becoming a federal university, chancellor says
  • Hong Kong's Universities Decide Bigger Is Better
  • Indonesians get Australian scholarships
  • International Student Barometer report
  • Bid to counter University of Newcastle exodus
  • Canadian Education Fair in Malaysia
  • UNE partners with CME to offer IELTS preparation
  • Highlands and Islands' UHI wins university status
  • Will Academic Freedom Be Protected at Yale's New College in Singapore?
To view, or download, the International education news summary for February 2011, please visit the following ACUMA online profiles:


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Technology in higher education: February 2011 news summary

Technology in higher education: February 2011 news summary

The monthly summary of technology news with a likely impact on higher education has now been published by ACUMA Incorporated, Australasia's peak association for managers in the higher education campus services industry.

Covering items in online learning, general information technology and items with a likely impact on the overall tertiary student experience, the February 2011 higher education news summary contains the following items and more:
  • Publishers Fight OverDrive On Library eBook Distribution
  • Social media and research workflow (pdf)
  • WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education
  • Digital Education Revolution broadly on track
  • First Facebook SIM Card Released
  • Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education (pdf)
  • 2011 Horizon Report (emerging technology impacting on higher education)
  • New smart card a credit to university
  • foursquare Invades Campus - Every Campus
To view the full summary online, or to download a pdf copy, please visit:


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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Higher education news in January 2011: Australia, New Zealand

Higher education news in January 2011: Australia, New Zealand

ACUMA has published the January 2011 summary of higher education news items relevant to Australian and New Zealand tertiary education institutions. Also covered are issues and items impacting on the delivery of learning, and on the tertiary student experience, both in the lecture theatre and in the wider campus environment.

Higher education news reported in January 2011 includes the following, amongst many others available in the full, free-to-download, monthly summary provided by ACUMA Incorporated:
  • Quality of tertiary education at risk - report
  • Universities Face The Challenge Of An Ageing Workforce
  • Carrick seeks TAFE lifeline
  • Students' debt woes worse: poll
  • Champion of learning and teaching gets the chop
  • Australia Day honour to Universities Australia Chair Professor Peter Coaldrake
  • The Myth of eLearning
  • Universities Australia's Higher Education Conference 2011
  • Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education (FYHE) Conference: call for submissions
  • Are Undergraduates Actually Learning Anything?
  • Swinburne University of Technology to go it alone with its online courses
  • Overseas internships proposed
  • UQ students work on Capitol Hill
  • Indiana U and ANU join to translate science
  • Uncertain times ahead for universities
  • In memory of former Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown
  • Bond University finds size really does matter
ACUMA's monthly Australian and New Zealand higher education news summaries can be downloaded from the following locations:

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January 2011: International education news summary

January 2011: International education news summary

The January 2011 international education news summary from ACUMA Incorporated is now online and available for download.

Covering news items dealing with education issues both on the international stage, and relating to international students in Australia and New Zealand, ACUMA's January 2011 international education news summary provides links to items including, but not limited to, the following:
  • Putera 1Malaysia Club To Open First Overseas Branch In Australia
  • UK: Academics make the best university leaders
  • India expanding private and vocational education
  • Debt fears over rise in student loan interest rates
  • International sector reaps record dividend, but crash looms
  • The UoW factor
  • Indian students in Australia secure: minister
  • International Student Volunteers provides a different kind of study abroad
  • Collaborate With Chinese Higher Learning Institutes - Hou
  • Campus Number Seven? Nottingham University in talks to Open New Campus in Shanghai
  • Abolish agents and third-party recruiters
  • Uni students rack up massive debt
  • Asia: The global university - McDonaldisation?
  • Expected National Merger of Student Affairs Organizations Facing Opposition From Within
  • La Trobe University in bid to regain overseas students
  • Dumbing down of university grades revealed
  • Indonesia: Hiccups in our higher education?
  • University Mergers Sweep Across Europe
  • International students in Australia: their challenges and implications for university counseling services
As with ACUMA's previous monthly international education news summaries, the January 2011 news summary can be downloaded from:

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Technology in education news summary: January 2011

Technology in education news summary: January 2011

ACUMA has published the monthly technology in education news summary for January 2011.

The monthly education technology news summaries outline developments in technology with a direct, or likely impact on education broadly, and on the experience of the student in higher education.

Also outlined are those items appearing each month which deal with individual university's and educational institutions methods for addressing, and piloting, technological approaches to the delivery of learning.

Technology items relevant to education covered in ACUMA's January 2011 summary include:
  • Linux.conf.au 2012 venue announced
  • eProcurement: Towards Technology and Culture Change
  • Online Learning Set for Explosive Growth as Traditional Classrooms Decline
  • Mobile Devices and Student Recruitment
  • iTunes U: what's on offer from Australian universities
  • 'Malicious hacker' breaches University of Sydney website
  • New higher education authority calls for fresh IT system
  • Korea-ASEAN cyber college to open in July next year
  • Malaysian University To Be Regional ICT Training Centre
  • The Times Higher Education Debuts THE App
  • Swinburne and Seek to offer online degrees
  • Curtin University goes for growth in online learning
The full summary can be downloaded from the following addresses:
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Higher education news summary: December 2010

Higher education news summary: December 2010

The ACUMA Incorporated higher education news summary for December 2010 is now online, and is available to view or download from a variety of sources.

The monthly ACUMA education news summaries provide links to items dealing with tertiary education issues in Australia and New Zealand, and to items of relevance to both universities and the experience of the university student in Australia or New Zealand.

Tertiary education news items covered in December 2010 include the following selected items:
  • Newcastle Uni scores lion's share of Indigenous research funding
  • Mine tax plan for uni fees 'unfair', says HECS architect
  • Push for probe into Youth Allowance
  • Student loan numbers surge
  • Australia’s universities in strong financial shape
  • Monash University axes staff amid fall in enrolments
  • UK crisis sounds a warning to sector
  • UK: What students want - chapters, not books
  • A test for educational assessment
  • Student Unionism Speech To Parliament: Sophie Mirabella MP
  • The Bologna Accord: a revolution by degree
To view the December education news summary in full, or to download in pdf format, follow the links below:
To receive daily updates covering Australian and New Zealand higher education news; international education news; and technology's impact on education, visit the ACUMA Twitter profile at http://twitter.com/acumainc or follow ACUMA on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/acumainc
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International education news summary: December 2010

International education news summary: December 2010

ACUMA's monthly international higher education news summary is now online, and is available to download, or view, from a number of ACUMA profiles.

The monthly international higher education news summary provides links to technology news and developments with a direct or likely impact on education at the university or equivalent level, and on the tertiary student experience.

News items covered include the selection below:
  • International Equity Benchmarking Project
  • Overseas students worth $1bn to South Australia's economy
  • Axed funding tipped to hurt refugee enrolments
  • EduCity well on its way to becoming Malaysia's education hub
  • Publishing giant Pearson looks set to offer degrees
  • India: Crisis of leadership in higher education
  • Students honour University of the Sunshine Coast
  • Universities: What’s next for top students
  • Special Reports: Economic Impact of International Students
  • Swinburne University signs MoU with Iraqi government
To view or download the full international education news summary for December 2010, visit the following ACUMA resources:
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Technology & education news summary: December 2010

Technology & education news summary: December 2010

ACUMA's monthly technology in education news round-up is now online, and presents collected links covering items in the press dealing with technology with a direct, or likely, impact on higher education, and on the student experience.

News items covered include those below and many others:
  • Court To AFP: Pics Aren’t Free Just Because They’re On Twitter
  • From university project to global expansion
  • HP Will Reportedly Introduce PalmPad Tablet
  • 5 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2011
  • China and India to dominate education e-books
  • India: $35 laptop a revolution in university learning?
  • Online Matchmaking Service Hopes to Link Scholars in U.S. and China
  • What the influx of 'digital natives' will mean for IT
  • Process credit cards anywhere: Five smartphone tools
  • NEC & Melbourne Uni score $4m grant to research future wireless standards
  • Curtin University goes for growth in online learning
To view or download the full December 2010 technology in education news summary, visit the following ACUMA resources:
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