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11 août 2014

Erasmus mobility: top 10 of French universities

Since 2008, the Europe-Education-Formation France Agency (2e2f) has been publishing the list of the most active universities under the Erasmus Mobility action. The last ranking concerns the year 2011-2012 and is based on the proportion of outgoing Erasmus students relative to the total university student population.
Just as last year, the University of Savoy, with 2.70% of its students on Erasmus mobility, remains in the 1st place. It is followed by the Stendhal University, Grenoble III with 2.13% of mobile students and the University of Le Havre in the 3rd place with this rate at 1.94%. The complete 2e2f list can be accessed here.
More information can also be found on the Statistics for All website, which features data on the number of mobilities, participating organisatoin and the allocated funds in 13 countries who have provided data. More...

11 août 2014

Budget cuts of over $1.5b per year give universities no choice

By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The impact of the Federal Budget’s 20% per student funding cut leaves universities with a massive funding black hole amounting to more than $1.5 billion a year from 2019 onwards, argues the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in their latest budget analysis briefing paper.
Universities will have to increase their fees by about 30% on average just to compensate for CSP funding cuts. To reduce costs, the NTEU is fearful that universities will further increase their reliance upon casual staff to teach undergraduate students and reduce spending on research and community service obligations. More...

11 août 2014

Higher education: the alternative

By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). Contrary to claims from Universities Australia and Christopher Pyne, there is an alternative to the sweeping and unfair changes to higher education proposed by the Abbott Government: better funding.
“The notion that the Senate must pass Mr Pyne’s changes or doom the sector to failure is misguided,” said Jeannie Rea, NTEU National President.
“Both Universities Australia and Minister Pyne have forgotten the myriad of reviews calling for greater public investment in tertiary education, most recently the Base Funding Review, which recommended a minimum increase of 10%. Instead we are being presented with a 20% cut in funding. More...

11 août 2014

Public Statement on Australia’s refugee and asylum seeker crisis

http://www.nteu.org.au//var/files/thumbs/a780532dd116f8da145bac8c4c7961bc_e7e2a056b6c5e8722188bac5fbb3550f_w80_.jpgBy Jeannie Rea. I would like to draw your attention to an article “’Here the word future is not a word': life as a refugee on Nauru" published by Professors Joseph Pugliese and Suvendrini Perera in The Conversation.
http://theconversation.com/here-the-word-future-is-not-a-word-life-as-a-refugee-on-nauru-30079
This opinion piece follows a Public Statement on Australia’s Refugee and Asylum Seeker Crisis organised by Pugliese and Perera and published on 10 July. The statement is posted in full below and a complete list of signatories is available at the following link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/235025401/Statement-on-Ethical-Leadership. More...

11 août 2014

Wikibomb planned to boost Wikipedia content on Australian women scientists

http://www.nteu.org.au//var/files/thumbs/a780532dd116f8da145bac8c4c7961bc_e7e2a056b6c5e8722188bac5fbb3550f_w80_.jpgBy Jeannie Rea. Hot on the heels of NTEU/NUS/CAPA Bluestocking Week is National Science Week (16-24 August), during which the Australian Academy of Science is holding a Women of Science Wikibomb (14 August).
Nancy Millis Award winner Professor Emma Johnston has called on the Australian public to help improve the online presence of women in science as part of the academy’s Wikibomb. Professor Johnston, a marine ecologist from UNSW said: “Wikipedia pages are the first place most students look. If there’s not enough information on there about Australian women in science and their achievements, there’s a risk they will go unnoticed. More...

11 août 2014

Data published on staff employed in the higher education sector

  • academic roles, such as professors and research assistants
  • professional and support roles, such as managers and directors.

Just over half of staff are in the second category. More...

11 août 2014

New handbook for educators on Synchronous Blended Learning available for download

The Australian Government's Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) has published a Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook which is now available to download for free.
In 2011-2013 the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) provided funding for a project aimed at exploring Blended Synchronous Learning, which entails bringing together on-campus and distributed learners to partake in shared, real-time experiences. More...

11 août 2014

Wikimedia Foundation publishes its first transparency report

The Wikimedia Foundation has released its first Transparency Report, providing a detailed overview of how it has responded to requests to change or remove information as well as requests for user data. More...

11 août 2014

Charting Media and Learning in Europe

By Ursula Simmetsberger. How is media used to support teaching and learning in different parts of Europe? This question is at the heart of this research project carried out by the consortium of partners in 7 European countries involved in the European Commission supported project MEDEAnet (2012-2014).
Charting Media and Learning in Europe.pdf. More...

11 août 2014

Think Green: education and environmental awareness

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRP4qIrraW46oa4crCboqTzadd3IE4yTumRAbMvuvR527xT31xml_tozi4By Tracey Burns and Roxanne Kovacs, Directorate for Education and Skills. The environment is a hot topic in the press and classrooms across the world and much has been said about the need for action to protect our planet. If current trends in climate change continue, temperatures could increase between 3 and 6 degrees Celsius by 2050. Such large temperature increases would lead to water shortages for billions of people, reduce agricultural yields, increase malnutrition related deaths by millions and lead to the extinction of a large part of animal species. Read more...

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