In Features this morning

James Guthrie (Macquarie U) reports proposals to transform governance of Australia’s public universities, including standardised state government legislation to make governance, “collegial, transparent and accountable” and establishing a national funding and standards agency, “similar” to the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (1977-88).

 plus Bradley Boron and Leonie Ellis (U Tas) on the way Zoom in the classroom creates opportunities for physical teaching space. “The ongoing work now is to design pedagogy around the use of these spaces to better engage all students equally,” they write. Theirs is a  new addition to Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s celebrated series, Needed now in teaching and learning.

and Jack Breen (UNSW) looks at election advertising in social media. So far Labor is spending way most – but not on education messages.