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:

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:

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: