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Uni networks’ cyber intel organisations announce a joint warning system
The partnership will allow real-time alerts of cyber-attacks against institution in Australia, Canada, the UK and US, using open-source intel and threat sharing platform, MISP.
“Sharing is key to fast and effective detention of attacks, “the EU co-funded MISP states.
AARNET (Australia’s Academic and Research Network) is the local partner in the new MISP community.
There’s more in the Mail
In Features this morning
There’s a bunch that can be done to support students’ mental health. Nicole Crawford (National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education) and Sheridan Emery (U Tas) explain.
Dr Crawford is a panellist on student mental health at the Needed Now in Teaching and Learning conference, today, 11.30-12.30 AEST. Book a ZOOM spot, here.
Plus, Merlin Crossley (UNSW) asks “where are the clones?” but concludes “there (don’t) have to be clones.”
Angel Calderon (RMIT) examines the Nature Index and Scopus indexed publications and reports good results for Australian universities in 2020. And the worse to come may not be as bad expected all over.
And, Kim Carr (Labor senator for Victoria) explains why the government should not tick the patent box and instead look to the Review of the Three Fs for ideas on funding research and development.
It’s day four of Needed Now in Learning and Teaching (the conference)
At 11.30 the state of student mental-health is on the agenda – what we know and don’t, who is at risk and what can and must be done
Panellists are Chi Baik (Uni Melbourne), Nicole Crawford (National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education), Rachael Field (Bond U), Ian Hickie (Uni Sydney) and Ben Veness (CQU)
And at 1pm, graduate employability: is what providers are delivering what graduates and employers need, is government helping or getting in the way
Join, Dawn Bennett (Bond U), Michael Healy (Uni Southern Queensland), Jess Vanderlelie (La Trobe U) and Troy Willams (Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia)
It’s the learning not the liking that matters
Student evaluation of teaching ratings are “unrelated to student learning”
Bob Uttl (Mount Royal U), Carmela A White (Uni British Columbia) and Daniela Wong Gonzalez (Mount Royal U) challenge the, “widespread belief that students learn more from highly rated professors.”
They analysed data in studies which they argue are the basis of the belief and concluded results were, “an artefact of small sample sized studies and publication bias.”
In contrast, they suggest studies with large sample-sizes “showed no or only minimal correlation between SET ratings and learnings.”
“These findings suggest that institutions focused on student learning and career success may want to abandon SET ratings as a measure of faculty’s teaching effectiveness,” they state.
Deans with a little list of teaching staff who they think would not be missed need to read this.
Appointment
Kerri-Lee Krause, now provost of Avondale University College joins the board of Independent Higher Education Australia,
The programme is the political in R&D incentives
The Australian National Audit Office is doing a performance audit of the Research and Development Tax Incentive
Not the policy of this endlessly entertaining programme but how the ATO is administering it.
But the policy is inevitably political, given the Government has yet again decided not to redirect some of the TI to support translational research and has created a new patent box incentive for biochemistry industries (see Kim Carr on this in CMM yesterday).
Submissions to the ANAO audit are due next week.
Tons of top Aus 100s in Shanghai subject rankings
Unlike other agencies the Shanghai Ranking (ARWU as was) does not use the services of DVCR Barnum and Dean Bailey to announce new research ratings
The Shanghai subject rankings for 2021 were released very quietly (at least to the hackery) yesterday afternoon.
They certainly merit the sounding of guns and trumpet sounding – in all the natural sciences and engineering disciplines (except maths) Australian universities are represented in the world top-100.
Which is a problem for government MPs and ministers.
Yes, these results are an excellent example of research that rates in rankings (which they think is bad) but Australian research is strong in engineering (which they just love).
More results tomorrow
With apologies for any errors/omissions
Natural sciences
Maths: –
Physics: ANU 28 (last year 28) Monash U 76-100 (-), Uni Melbourne 76-100 (-)
Chemistry: Monash U 76-100 (76-100)
Earth Sciences: ANU 25 (26) Curtin U 39 (39) UWA 48 (50) Monash U 51-75 (51-75) Uni Adelaide 51-75 (51-75) UNSW 51-75 (51-75) Macquarie U 76-100 (76-100) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (-) Uni Tas 76-100 (51-75)
Geography: Uni Melbourne six (13) ANU 15 (nine), Uni Queensland 17 (ten) James Cook U 51-75 (51-75) UNSW 51-75 (-) Uni Sydney 51-75 (76-100) Griffith U 76-100 (76-100) UWA 76-100 (-) Uni Wollongong 76-100 (-)
Ecology: Western Sydney U 13 (23) Uni Queensland 15 (21) James Cook U 25 (28) ANU 40 (38) Monash U 47 (51-75) UWA 48 (-) Uni Melbourne 51-75 (46) UNSW 51-75 (43) U Tas 51-75 (51-75) Uni Sydney 76-100 (51-75)
Oceanography: U Tas eight (nine) UWA 21 22() UNSW 24 (20) ANU 51-75 (51-75) Uni Queensland 76-100 (51-75)
Atmospheric science: UNSW 37 (34) Uni Melbourne 51-75 (51-75) Uni Tas 76-100 (76-100)
Engineering
Mech eng: UNSW 36 (35) Uni Wollongong 47 (51-75) Monash 51-75 (42) Uni Sydney 51-75 (51-75) Uni Adelaide 76 -100 (76-100) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (-) Uni Queensland 76 -100 (76-100)
Electrical – electronic: UNSW 38 (51-75) ANU 76-100 (76-100) Uni Adelaide 76-100 (42) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (76-100) Uni Sydney 76-100 (-) UTS 76-100 (76-100)
Automation and control: Uni Newcastle 13 (13) ANU 21 (18) Uni Adelaide 25 (24) Victoria U 37 (32) RMIT 51-75 (51-75) Swinburne U 51-75 (76-100) Western Sydney U 51-75 (51-75) Uni Sydney 51-75 (-) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (51-75) UTS 76-100 (76-100)
Telecommunications: UTS 16 (19) Uni Sydney 21 (30) UNSW 27 (35) ANU 51-75 (44) Deakin U 76-100 (76-100)
Instrument science: UNSW 32 (49) UTS 39 (-) Uni Adelaide 51-75 (51-75) Uni Wollongong 51-75 (76-100) Monash U 76-100 (-) RMIT 76-100 (76-100)
Biomedical engineering: Uni Queensland 51-75 Uni Melbourne 76-100 Monash U 76-100 (CMM did not report the category last year)
Computer science: UTS 11 () Uni Sydney 38 () Uni Adelaide 48 () ANU 51-75 UNSW 51-75 () Deakin U 76-100 () Griffith U 76-100 () Swinburne U 76-100 (-) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (76-100)
Civil engineering: UNSW 12 (8) Uni Sydney 21 (21) Uni Adelaide 35 (25) Monash U 50 (40) RMIT 51-75 (51-75) Uni Melbourne 51-75 (76-100) Western Sydney U 51-75 (51-75) QUT 76-100 (51-75) Swinburne U 76 -100 (76-100) Uni Wollongong 76 -100 (51-75)
Chemical engineering: Monash U 45 (45) UNSW 51-75 (51-75) Curtin U 76-100 (51-75) Uni Queensland 76 -100 (76-100)
Materials science: Monash U 51-75 (51-75) Uni Wollongong 51-75 (51-75) UNSW 76-100 (76-100) Uni Queensland 76-100 (76-100)
Nanoscience and technology: Monash U 51-75 (51-75) Uni Queensland 51-75 (76-100) Uni Wollongong 51-75 (51-75) ANU 76-100 (76-100) Uni Adelaide 76-100 (-) UNSW 76-100 (76-100)
Energy science and engineering: Uni Wollongong 20 (27) UNSW 31 (38) Monash U 37 (41) Uni Queensland 51-75 (51-75) UTS 51-75 (51-75) Griffith U 76-100 (-) ANU 76-100 (-) Uni Adelaide 76 -100 (76-100)
Environmental science and engineering: UWA 21 (21) Uni Queensland 26 (23) UNSW 46 (42)
Water resources: UNSW eight (five) Flinders U 17 (13) Uni Queensland 23 (18) Uni Adelaide 31 (31) UTS 36 () UWA 37 (46) Uni Melbourne 40 (35) Monash U 41 (32) ANU (43) Griffith U 76 -100 (76-100) Uni Newcastle 76-100 (-)
Food science and technology: Uni Queensland 14 (20) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (76-100)
Biotechnology: Uni Queensland seven (seven) Uni Melbourne 47 (25) UNSW 51-75 (76-100) UTS 51-75 (51-75)
Aerospace: UNSW 41 (33) RMIT 46 (41)
Marine and ocean engineering: UWA ten (five) Griffith U 19 (eight) Uni Tas 27 (23) UNSW 32 (37)
Transportation and science tech: Uni Sydney 14 (16) UNSW 40 (46) UTS 44 (51-75) Monash U 45 (51-75) QUT 51-75 (50) Uni Melbourne 51-75 (-) Uni Queensland 51-75 (76-100) ANU 76-100 (51-75)
Remote sensing: UNSW 12 () Monash U 33 (28) ANU 51-75 (51-75) UTS 51-75 (51-75) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (51-75) Uni Tas 76-100 (-)
Mining and mineral engineering: UWA three (four) Monash U six (nine) Uni Adelaide seven (seven) UNSW eight (13) Curtin U 15 (19) Uni Queensland 16 (12) Uni Tas 25 (25) Uni Newcastle 27 (44) RMIT 40 (38) James Cook U 51-75 (51-75) Uni Wollongong 51-75 (42) Uni Melbourne 76-100 (76-100) Uni SA 76 -100 (76-100)
Metallurgical engineering: Monash U ten (nine) Uni Queensland 24 (24) Deakin U 43 (42) RMIT 50 (51-75) UNSW 51-75 (49) Uni Sydney 51-75 (46) Uni Wollongong 76-100 (51-75)