An anonymous reader lets exposes the second-rate hospitality training given to international students hoping to gain permanent residency in Australia.
Tertiary education
Melbourne Muddle: elite students turning away from law in droves
Elite students are turning away from the once-prestigious Melbourne University law school in droves, shunning the Melbourne Model in favour of not only long-time rival Monash, but also RMIT and Deakin University.
University of Melbourne spinning themselves a lie on VCA
Management and spin doctors are in denial over the unpopular changes to the Victorian College of the Arts, writes Scott Dawkins.
Ill will across Melbourne uni claims another victim
The stoush between staff and senior management at the University of Melbourne has claimed its second victim after the chief architect of the university’s controversial internal restructuring process announced her decision to stand aside.
leaked Was Melbourne Model stoush behind the Law dean’s departure?
A damning series of internal documents obtained by Crikey reveals widespread anger from within Melbourne Uni’s law faculty over changes that would have seen professional staff sacked and replaced with senior bureaucrats.
University reform: yes — but what is it for?
Australian universities have completely lost their vocational or operational autonomy, and will continue to be wagged by the dog of economic and other concerns tangential to their traditional aims, says Matthew Sharpe.
Has the great Indian student bubble burst?
Speculation that the flood of Indian students into Australian education institutions (not to mention the $2 billion they bring to the economy each year) is about to dry up has generated alarm in political and educational circles, writes Geoff Maslen.
Left and right? Just the beginning of the complexities of student politics
How could hordes of bright-eyed Melbourne Uni students, with their liberal arts educations and asymmetrical haircuts, willingly sign their representation away to conservatives? They didn’t, writes student politician Chris Summers.
Twitter goes tertiary
DePaul University in the US will be starting what it calls “the first college-level journalism course focused solely on Twitter”. Is that really something to brag about? Surprisingly, yes, says Gawker, who got a sneak-peak at the syllabus.
Indigenous education: a silent success story
By the end of this year, about 25,000 Indigenous people will have graduated from Australian universities. Less than three decades ago, there were fewer than 300 Indigenous graduates in tertiary education. Joe Lane documents this remarkable — but largely unreported — achievement.
The University of Melbourne gags VCA staff
The University of Melbourne has placed an unprecedented gag on Victorian College of the Arts staff members talking to the media, with Senior staff members currently locked in a battle with the University over reforms stemming from the introduction of the controversial Melbourne Model.
Davis: Cutting to keep Melbourne University sound
The University remains in the black, but must slow future increases in spending to ensure its long-term viability is not compromised, writes Glyn Davis, the University’s Vice Chancellor, in an email to staff.
Closing the gap: tertiary education
Students from poorer socio-economic backgrounds struggle to convert academic potential evident at year 9 to year 12 results. We need to close this gap to help get them to uni, says Glyn Davis, VC at the University of Melbourne.
Why journalism degrees should be scrapped
Journalism is not a profession like engineering, medicine or even law, says journalist Richard Sine: you can pick up most media skills on the job, and no-one dies if you stuff-up. Wannabe reporters would be better off honing their skills out in the real world.
Bringing corporate sponsorship into the classroom
With the economic crisis hitting the already-struggling US education system hard, American colleges are selling off the naming rights to their classes to raise capital. “Quantitative Methods in Social Research, brought you by McDonald’s: I’m loving inferential statistics and control variables!”
VCA cuts an act of barbarism
The loss of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts will be a disaster for arts professions, says Barista.
Melbourne University’s ‘model’ provost departs
Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has resigned. What’s the story? asks one Crikey reader.
Kruddiversary: the post-belief PM
After running a campaign almost entirely devoid of specific policies, Rudd has room to reinvent himself according to the circumstances, he’s a chameleon, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Part-time work and poverty are killing campus life
There is little wonder why we don’t hang around on campus. No-one has the time or the money to be students anymore, writes Dara Conduit.
Buyer Beware: How not to run a Grants Writing Course
Grant writing courses offers free lessons in how not to host a grant writing course. By inconvenienced attendee Kathy Flitcroft.
Experience in choc tops and popcorn won’t cut it at Hoyts
West Australian Newspapers and Publishing and Broadcasting have offloaded Hoyts Cinemas to Pacific Equity Partners, losing $100m in the process. Much as it might be in denial, cinema is a troubled sector writes Rob Lake.
Labor’s higher education plan: questions for Stephen Smith
There a few key elements to winning a federal election, and good policy is undoubtedly among them. With Labor pitching for the top job, their policies will come under increasing scutiny as polling day approaches. Here, Crikey asks Stephen Smith for details on Labor’s tertiary education plan.
Muslim students pay the way for others. Give them a prayer room
The truth is that many of our top universities are only able to provide spots for locals because of overseas subsidies through full fee paying foreign students. No room for these subtleties at the Daily Telegraph, writes Keysar Trad.
Fairfax traineeships: that’s fine, but what about the rest of us?
Applications for Fairfax traineeships opened over the weekend, confirming reports that the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will each be halving their respective trainee intakes from around eight per year to four – and that half of those would be fresh from high school, boasting nothing more than a year 12 certificate.
