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6 mai 2019

'Starvation wages': Majority of Victorian university workers in casual teaching trap

Sixty-three per cent of workers at Victoria’s eight biggest universities are casual or on fixed-term contracts, new figures show.
Women account for 57 per cent of these casual and fixed-term workers. Casuals do not receive holiday or sick leave and are unpaid during the midyear and summer breaks.
Between them, Melbourne, Monash, Swinburne, RMIT, Deakin, Victoria, La Trobe, and Federation universities employed almost 72,000 people last year, according to their annual reports. Just over 49,000 of these workers were casual or on fixed-term contracts. More...

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6 mai 2019

Media release: Industrial action overwhelmingly endorsed at University of the Sunshine Coast

After 8 months of negotiations, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) have voted to take industrial action. Eighty per cent of NTEU members at USC participated in the vote, with 91% of those voting to stop work if required. More...

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6 mai 2019

Position Vacant: Victorian Communications & Campaigns Organiser

The National Tertiary Education Union (Victorian Division) is seeking a highly motivated, member-focused individual to assist us in our communication and campaigns. This is a challenging and varied role involving social media, print, video and other campaign resources as well as supporting union pickets, rallies and publicity events. The successful applicant will be committed to building the trade union movement. More...

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6 mai 2019

Virtual collaboration for international learning

In a collaborative project, The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Zurich University of Applied Sciences used a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) format – a teaching and learning methodology based on collaborative and blended learning – to encourage students to research virtual cooperation while also actively experiencing it for themselves. More...

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6 mai 2019

Three key components of intercultural learning

Continuing 2019 Spring Forum Week, we turn to one of the broader questions framing the idea of 'the evolving classroom': what does it take to facilitate true intercultural learning? While many educators will identify with the desire to transform their diverse classroom into a space for building intercultural competence, those good intentions won't go very far without three key components. More...

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6 mai 2019

The evolution of international education

The modern classroom is evolving – technologically, demographically, pedagogically – but what does that mean for professionals working in internationalisation? From curriculum design to training for administrative staff, from integrating refugee students to connecting in virtual classrooms, the 2019 issue of Spring Forum explores our current moment in the evolution of international education. More...

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6 mai 2019

Global Ranking from Iran

The Islamic World Citation Center, based in Iran, has published a global ranking of universities. There are four criteria, Research, Education, International Activity, and Innovation. The overall rankings are dominated by the USA with Harvard in first place followed by Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). More...

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6 mai 2019

Best Value Colleges: Strong Showing by California Schools

The business magazine Forbes has published the latest edition of its Best Value Colleges ranking. This is an attempt to assist students and stakeholders by providing them with information about the economic value of a college education. Data were collected for 645 colleges and universities which were given scores for six criteria: quality determined by the 2018 Forbes Top Colleges, net price, net debt, alumni earnings, graduation rate, and access for low income students. More...

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6 mai 2019

Cross Ranking Compares Rankings Indicators

The Education Policy Centre at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in the Czech Republic has published a study by Aleš Bartušek and Jan Koucký, Cross Ranking 2018: Comparing World Higher Education Systems and Institutions, that analyses the relationships between the universities included in three well known global rankings, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the QS World University Rankings, and the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. More...

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6 mai 2019

70th Anniversary of the Council of Europe

70 years after its foundation, the Council of Europe is our continent’s leading human rights organisation. 47 member States have come together to agree common standards on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. All 830 million people living in this common legal space have an ultimate right of appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. This is unprecedented in European history, and an achievement that we should celebrate. More...

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