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22 septembre 2014

The perils of being an unsettled woman

By Celeste Liddle. If there was one political gaffe that grabbed my attention recently, it was the unfortunate announcement by Tony Abbott that Australia was ‘unsettled’ prior to 1788. Indeed, my immediate response on hearing this was to be dumbfounded. For some absurd reason I did expect slightly better from our Prime Minister and self-appointed ‘Minister for Indigenous Affairs’, particularly considering much has been made of this man’s ongoing connections with remote Aboriginal communities. Then again as Abbott, and other members of his government have proven, political gaffes are all the rage this season. More...

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22 septembre 2014

The Simple Arithmetic of Inequity

By Paul Kniest. The attached policy briefing notes uses simple numerical example to demonstrate the inherent inequity and unfairness of the government’s proposed new Commonwealth Scholarships scheme.
Fact Sheet (107 KB) - PDF - The Simple Arithmetic of Inequity. More...

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22 septembre 2014

OECD Education at Glance 2014

By Paul Kniest. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released the 2014 version of its Education at Glance Report last week.
The following provides a summary of the report’s findings in relation to tertiary education in Australia and how it compares with other OECD countries.
Fact Sheet (556 KB) - PDF -OECD Education at a Glance 2014. More...

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22 septembre 2014

REF impact case studies to be analysed

A new project will analyse the wider impact of the research undertaken by UK universities.
The analysis, commissioned by HEFCE and partners [Note 1], will draw on the 6,975 impact case studies submitted to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) [Note 2]. Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Science & Education, will undertake the project; working in conjunction with its sister company Nature Publishing Group and the policy institute at King’s College, London. More...

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22 septembre 2014

Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research

FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) is a 2-year, EU-Funded (FP7) project, carried out by 13 partners across 8 countries. The primary aim is to produce a European-wide training programme that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies. More...

UNESCO and the Education Fast Forward Foundation are organizing an online Oxford Debate on Mobile Learning from Thursday 18 until Friday 26 September, 2014. More...

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