In Features this morning
Angel Calderon (RMIT) on the new QS Employability ranking. “These multiple datasets are valuable tools to drive social and labour market policy reforms.”
Merlin Crosley (UNSW) On the aim for university teachers, to instil wisdom and capability. “Not every student has to be expert in everything. But every student has to be an expert in something.”
Mahsood Shah (Swinburne U) sets out students’ nine expectations to improve teaching. This week’s contribution to Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s celebrated series, Needed now in teaching and learning.
plus, Corey Bradshaw (Flinders U) and colleagues have a fairer way than the H Index to compare researchers at different career stages and across disciplines.
with James Guthrie (Macquarie U) who wants to know how many people Victorian universities actually employ – he finds that numbers change from data set to set.