There’s more in the Mail

Expert Opinion with Sven Rogge

The president of the Australian Institute of Physics talks to CMM about pre-prints, the role of the ARC, research translation and more, Expert Opinion is  HERE (scroll up)

And in Features

“First in family” university students is a metric that matters – but it covers all sorts of circumstances. The challenge is to celebrate their achievement without assuming they all have the same needs, suggest Sarah O’Shea, (National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education) and Sally Patfield (Uni Newcastle). Theirs is a new contribution to Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s celebrated series Needed now in learning and teaching.

and  Rhetoric about elite education is obsolete, Conor King (Tertiary Education Analysis) argues in Features. “Education institutions should be expected to cater for all those who needs their services. Exclusivity whose rationale is to create exclusivity should not be part of the system.”