“Two days to pivot online, it’s business as usual. We care about you, but your student evaluation scores are low. We’re in this together – where are your three research outputs?” …
Cheating is a big problem. By my reading of the literature, around one in ten Australian university students has at some stage submitted an assignment they didn’t do themselves. Add to that other types of cheating such as using unauthorised material in exams, and emergent threats from artificial intelligence, and you have a fascinating, challenging …
(Illustration by Oslo Davis Copyright Oslo Davis 2022. Used with permission. www.osldavis.com) Some things in academia become normalised …
Fresh from delivering a widely-applauded keynote at this year’s HERDSA conference, “Fragility or tenacity? Equity and participation in …
Apparently international PhD students in Australia now have to seek ministerial approval to change their thesis topic or …
The pandemic has brought about an energetic rethinking of the role and nature of higher education into the …
This is not a cry for help. These aren’t my thoughts on the difficulties of managing money, time, …
Australian education policy has really focussed on getting ‘equity groups’ into university and then onto completion with initiatives designed to improve access and participation. That worked. Recent data indicate that there has been growth in the university enrolment of these equity groups in the past ten years. Published studies have also found evidence for comparable …
An academic career centered on teaching should not be associated with a dead-end, or second-rate professional life. It …