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There is increasing alarm over the lack of progress around sexual harassment and assault on Australian university campuses. Much of the focus so far has been on students but staff are also at risk. 
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The proposed new university would be called Adelaide University and open in 2026, with the aim of becoming Australia’s biggest university for domestic students.
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One key question that surfaced during the Monday meeting boiled down to this: What type of student does this new college—referred to at this point by the place-holder name, “New Educational Institution,” or NEI—intend to serve? Several recent efforts to start experimental colleges from scratch have aimed squarely at students with high standardized test scores and strong academic preparation. That’s the case, for instance, for Minerva Project, a private institution that uses a home-grown online teaching system and has a hybrid for-profit and nonprofit funding model, as well as the budding University of Austin, a startup college in Texas aimed at ensuring more viewpoint diversity.
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The university experience in 2022 will not be the same as before the pandemic. However, as many universities across Australia are starting the first week of the semester, we are cautiously optimistic.
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You will probably have heard of T-shaped graduates. Discipline-specific strengths and then the ability to work across teams. If we prune properly, we can do even better and produce: Tree-shaped graduates.
According to this model it is in primary and secondary education that pupils try many things – they establish an extensive root system touching on maths, humanities, science, crafts, music, arts, drama, and physical education. Then when students move to university (if they wish to) they should prepare to sprout out and drive one strong trunk upwards (or perhaps two trunks if they do a dual degree like Science/Law) in their chosen discipline. Finally, once they have matured, they are ready to branch out again. But the latter branching is quite different from the initial tastings – it involves making choices, life decisions.
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Even though The Chair confronts some of the tougher realities of higher education, the world it depicts is still rosier than the reality.
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The State University of New York at Oneonta had the worst coronavirus outbreak of any public university in the state.
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Our universities are addicted to their enormous cash flows – even as they casualise teaching and allow the creative mind to become dispensable.
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Despite an array of calculating tools, comparing financial-aid packages is still an incredibly dense and circular process.
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“I’ve seen a lot of corporate leaders come to higher ed and think they can run it like a bank. And you can’t. It’s not a bank. It’s not a retail company. There are complexities to it that are different on purpose.”
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A Victoria-first pilot program in which young school students attend a children’s university and graduate is showing that learning doesn’t only have to happen inside a classroom.
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Universities supposedly have adopted a more corporate approach – but most corporate board members have expertise in the area their company operates in and are more accountable to shareholders.
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Casual staff often miss out on professional development and feel isolated and invisible. Team teaching helps support these staff while improving the continuity and quality of university teaching.
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The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.
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Higher education is facing painful disruptions and challenges from online providers, but the emerging need to monitor and continually update knowledge also offers opportunities.
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A direct pathway for Indian students to attend New Zealand universities has been unveiled. - New Zealand Herald
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