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* Academic Integrity Forum
* Job: Program Development Consultant @ USQ
* Job: Manager, Education Futures, USQ
* Australian Students as Partners Roundtable
* Call for authors: University Development and Administration.
* Higher Education in the Headlines
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Call for new Associate Editors for HERD
Several of HERD's long-standing Associate Editors are due to stand down and the number of manuscript submissions is growing. So HERD is on the look-out for new Associate Editors, due to start immediately or early in 2017.
If you're interested, contact the Executive Editor, Barbara Grant, for more information on bm.grant@auckland.ac.nz
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Academic Integrity Forum
The HERDSA Victoria Branch would like to invite you to a forum on Academic Integrity on Monday September 26th from 9:30-12 at Deakin University Burwood campus.
Please join us for registration and refreshments from 9am.
There will be presentations followed by a panel discussion. Confirmed speakers include:
A/Prof Wendy Sutherland-Smith, Deakin University
A/Prof Phillip Dawson,Deakin University
A/Prof Judy Sheard, Monash University
Chaired by: Trish McCluskey, Deakin University
Registration
Please register for this event at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LNL3TWQ.
For further information, please contact Bella at bella.ross@monash.edu
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Job: Program Development Consultant @ USQ
21 September 2016
A unique opportunity has become available within USQ's newly established Advancement of Learning and Teaching (ALT) team for a Program Development Consultant to play a key role in working collaboratively with academics to design, develop and maintain high quality programs.
You will be responsible for providing advice and support on program level curriculum development within the Engineering, Built Environment and IT; Sciences and Health discipline grouping. This will include establishing learning outcomes, assessment mapping and ensuring compliance with USQ and external policies such as the Australian Qualifications Framework.
Further information, including the Position Description: http://tinyurl.com/glx5pkk
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Job: Manager, Education Futures, USQ
21 September 2016
The Manager (Educational Futures), is responsible for guiding the future directions for educational design and practice at USQ and will lead innovation in teaching and learning through the use of new and emerging technologies, and the provision of innovative, flexible and future focussed pedagogies.
The role will provide leadership and strategic advice and reforms University wide that are forward focused and responsive to educational, social and technological developments. The incumbent will be an exceptional communicator and relationship builder and will have an informed and contemporary understanding of the future of learning and teaching in higher education.
The position will be responsible for providing advice on the emerging national and international trends in learning design, learning environments and educational technologies. The incumbent will need to be nimble and fluid in their thinking, with a passion to deliver innovative, adaptive and supportive strategies to enhance educational delivery and student learning at USQ.
Further information, including the position description: http://tinyurl.com/zu4svp3
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Australian Students as Partners Roundtable
5 October 2016
Students as Partners' is about harnessing student and staff creativity via collaborative partnerships to enhance teaching and learning.
The 2016 National Students as Partners Roundtable will bring together students, academics, and professional staff from across Australia to explore this innovative model for teaching and learning enhancement. Featuring international experts (Alison Cook-Sather & Mick Healey) in interactive workshops, the Roundtable will cover developments in student-staff partnership in Australia, what it looks like in practice, challenges to the concept, and stories from those involved.
The event will be an opportunity to:
1. Share Students as Partners practices, ideas, and experiences
2. Discover new ways of considering Students as Partners in higher education
3. Network with a diversity of Students as Partners practitioners
4. Harness the creativity of staff and students to address teaching and learning challenges.
Free event, registration is required. More on http://itali.uq.edu.au/2016-national-students-partners-roundtable
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Call for authors: University Development and Administration.
Professor Belinda Tynan, DVC Education at RMIT and Yoni Ryan are editing a volume in Springer’s new series, University Development and Administration. Information on the volumes commissioned is available at http://refworks.springer.com/uda . Our volume is Futures of University Administration and Development. This is a challenging time in higher education, as we face the ‘disruptions’ of digital technology, near ‘universal’ enrolment patterns, and the centrality of research to university reputations, seemingly at the expense of teaching. It is a time for speculation on higher education futures, rather than certainties, but exploring probabilities rather than possibilities is fruitful.
Rationale and approach
This book is designed as a practical guide for those looking to develop a virtual university from the ground up. It is based on tangible examples of contemporary practice aligned to the expertise that only significant time and influence within the higher education sector can bring. Which is where you as a prospective author come in! Each chapter is designed to provide:
• an overall context to the topic drawing on examples from contemporary literature,
• an understanding of how this aligns with the concept of establishing and running a virtual university,
• a list of suggested strategies to achieve and sustain this goal, and
• a way to measure the success of this approach.
Each chapter should be seen as part of the whole overall work, and not seek to exist in isolation.
Therefore authors are required to familiarise themselves with the other proposed chapter headings and endeavour not to stray into those territories, other than to provide a context for their argument.
Book and chapter length
Total 100,000 words and 15 medium sized chapters of 5-6,000 words each
We now invite prospective authors on the following topics to contact Yoni Ryan (y.ryan@qut.edu.au) with a one page outline of their proposed chapter, and a half page description of their credentials to undertake the writing:
1. Theories and models underpinning the modern 'university'
2. The role of public policy and universities
3. What is university administration?
4. Quality assurance and regulation
5. Strategy and planning
6. Estates management
7. Accountability of the senior officers of the University
8. Leading and managing people
9. The effects of casualisation of the academic workforce
10. Financial performance management
11. Digital disruption - developing and managing systems (IT)
12. Leading and managing the student experience
13. Types of administration internationally
14. Administration in the online/distance university
15. Community and corporate engagement.
Timelines will be as follows, and prospective writers should consider these before expressing their interest.
EOI: November 1 2016 to y.ryan@qut.edu.au
First draft: January 15 2016
Edited returns: February 15 2017
Final chapter: February 28 2017
Submission to Springer: April 15 2017
We look forward to your contribution.
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Higher Education in the Headlines
Thriving unis could absorb cuts | JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Eduction | 07 September, 2016
New analysis reveals the higher education sector is 50 per cent better off in real terms than it was a decade ago.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/study-shows-universitie...
The New Cheating Economy | Brad Wolverton | Chronicle of Higher Eduction | 02 September, 2016
Business is booming right under colleges’ noses. It’s not just papers and assignments anymore. Now it’s the whole course.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-New-Cheating-Economy/237587
Some Russell Group universities ‘could opt out of the TEF’ | Chris Havergal | Times Higher Eduction | 01 September, 2016
In a THE survey, only three group members confirm they will participate in exercise amid suggestions that others are considering not taking part
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/some-russell-group-universitie...