By Andrew MacDonald. The signatories of the open letter are academics and scholars from across Australia who wish to lend their support to the chorus of Australians speaking out against recent statements by several media personalities and politicians which have instigated and accentuated a worrying trend of hate speech in Australia especially towards those of the Muslim faith. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. James Cook University (JCU) management is seeking the right to fine staff for misconduct and to remove the requirement for misconduct to be ‘serious’ in order to sack staff, its latest draft bargaining document has revealed. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. Immediate and meaningful action is needed following the exposé on ABC television of severe human rights abuses of children, most of whom are Aboriginal, in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory, says the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). More...
By Andrew MacDonald. On Tuesday 2 May 2016, the Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Birmingham not only announced that the government was abandoning its plans for full fee deregulation, but also that it was delaying the implementation of its higher education policies to allow it to undertake further consultation. At the same time, the government released a discussion paper entitled: Driving Innovation, Fairness and Excellence in Australian Higher Education. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) welcomes Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s statement in announcing the new Labor front bench that: “education is a first-order economic and social priority for Labor in the 45th parliament.” More...
The Moscow-based RUR Rankings Agency has produced a research performance ranking of 692 universities. There are five criteria with equal weighting: 1.normalized citation impact, 2.citations per paper, 3. papers per academic and research staff, 4.international research reputation and 5. proportion of research papers with international collaborators. More...
In the 2016-2017 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings there have been no change in the basic methodology so the rankings generally show moderate changes. Half of the weighting goes to two reputation surveys, 40% for an academic research survey and 10% for an employer survey. More...
Nature has published an index of national expenditure on research and development. Over the last ten years there has been a rapid increase in spending in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin American while growth has been comparatively slow in Western Europe and North America. The countries where GERD (Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development) has risen the most rapidly between 2003 and 2013 include China, Egypt, Turkey, Kuwait, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand. More...
Indian higher education institutions have not been able to achieve a significant academic presence or a reputation for quality. It is true that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are very selective and are known for producing many capable graduates in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects. More...
Universities have become obsessed with using rankings to attract high paying students from rapidly developing countries such as India and China. They have also distorted the career paths of young academics who are encouraged to concentrate on research and treat teaching as being of little significance. More...
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