By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The NTEU has labelled the government’s higher education proposals a ‘moveable fiasco’ with crossbench Senators and the Australian public totally at a loss as what the objectives are or how they will be achieved.
“The rationale for Minister Pyne's policies has changed from being part of the government’s budget repair task to setting universities free to, in the most recent iteration, forming a part of the government’s microeconomic reform agenda,” NTEU National President Jeannie Rea said today. More...
Getting a taste of uni from your living room
By Blayne Slabbert. As students around New Zealand head to university this month to further their education, thousands of others are logging on in their homes to do the same thing.
However, they may be studying with lecturers from universities such as Stanford or Harvard, rather than Canterbury or Victoria.
Massive open online courses (Mooc) take what the web does best – sharing information – but does it in a formal way. More...