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5 août 2015

Why universities should get rid of PowerPoint and why they won’t

By Paul Ralph. Do you really believe that watching a lecturer read hundreds of PowerPoint slides is making you smarter?
I asked this of a class of 105 computer science and software engineering students last semester. More...

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5 août 2015

Legal Aid vs private practice: do university fees dictate job choices?

By Richard Holden and Rosalind Dixon. Despite Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s failure to get university fee deregulation passed in the Senate, it remains quite likely that fees will rise one way or another in the next few years. This could be through an increase in the cap on fees (as South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has advocated), or via passage of some version of the deregulation legislation. More...

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5 août 2015

How your parents' level of education affects your chances

By Gerry Redmond. A new report from the OECD shows that across 22 member countries for which information is available, hourly wages of workers whose parents had a tertiary degree are significantly higher, on average, than hourly wages of workers whose parents had lesser qualifications. More...

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5 août 2015

The absurdity of English spelling and why we’re stuck with it

By Baden Eunson. Ghoti. How would you pronounce that? According to urban legend, it was George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright, who coined the term in his quest for spelling reform. He pronounced it “fish” because of the sounds touGH; wOmen; and naTIOn. It probably wasn’t Shaw, but it does make an interesting point about the absurdities in English spelling. Do we need to fix it? Can we fix it. More...

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5 août 2015

Report on abolishing research framework doesn’t care about students

By Andrys Onsman. A recent report from the Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK seemed to be stating the obvious when it said universities focus too much energy on research. It said this comes at the expense of students, but when examining the report and its origins it seems students are less of a concern than the institute’s own economic ideologies. More...

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5 août 2015

Graduating into a weak job market: why so many grads can’t find work

By Joshua Healy. Times are tough for young Australians. The costs of education and housing are rising. The youth unemployment rate is double the national average and competition for good jobs is intense. More...

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5 août 2015

Modifying student loan system could ensure access for all students

By Bruce Chapman and Timothy Higgins. When HECS (HELP) was introduced in 1989 it applied only to undergraduates in public sector universities. It has now spread in Australia to cover post-graduates, private universities and some tertiary courses, many TAFE diploma courses and even apprenticeship wage top-ups. More...

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5 août 2015

Should MOOCs be used as credit for high school?

By Jason M Lodge and Anna Dabrowski. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are moving beyond the hype they generated in 2012. MOOCs are now reaching a point where they may soon find their niche in the educational ecosystem. One possibility being discussed is that MOOCs could be used as formal credit for high school. More...

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5 août 2015

Vanity and predatory academic publishers are corrupting the pursuit of knowledge

By Michael J. I. Brown. Radio National’s Background Briefing recently presented a grim academic tale of identity theft, shambolic conferences, exploitation, sham peer review and pseudoscience. More...

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5 août 2015

Uni drop-out rates show need for more support, not capped enrolments

By Tim Pitman and Paul Koshy. The latest Selected Higher Education Statistics have revealed an increase in student attrition, or the percentage of students commencing in 2013 who neither completed nor re-enrolled in 2014. More...

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