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
Read the full August international education news summary online at:
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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
To read the tech news summary online, please visit:
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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
View the July summary online:
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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
View the July summary online:
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