A recent review of available pathways after secondary school into work, further education and training recommended all students leave school with a learner profile. Recommendation four of the report, commissioned by the Education Council, said: Students should leave school with a Learner Profile that incorporates not only their ATAR score (where relevant) together with their individual subject […] … learn more→

Colleges routinely assess faculty research, but few have thought carefully about why they want faculty to engage in research. They should. For 35 years, I was a student, postdoc and faculty member at top universities and research institutes, where “doing science” was at the top of the job description. Seven years ago, I switched gears […] … learn more→

The Australian government recently announced it will resume granting visas to international students in a move to push forward with international education. This means when borders reopen, many students will already have visas to come to Australia. Current and new students, studying online with an Australian university, while overseas due to COVID-19, will also be able to […] … learn more→

Adults have been writing for children for centuries. Among the different forms that these publications have taken, there are few that can seem entertaining to us today. Indeed, the works intended for the youngest aimed above all at their moral and spiritual progress. Children in the Middle Ages learned to read on wooden tablets covered with parchment […] … learn more→

Many workers can testify to the importance of workforce training programs. When carried out effectively, they increase your efficiency as a worker. This in turn leads to improvement in productivity, revenue generation, and profit margins. At the same time, cost and wastage can also be reduced. Even though the benefits of effective training programs are […] … learn more→

Universities have rightly won praise for moving their teaching online during the coronavirus lockdown. Switching from face-to-face lectures and seminars to classes delivered via Skype or Zoom meant that teaching staff had to acquire new technical skills in a very short period of time, while many spent long hours dealing with student concerns about completing […] … learn more→

Some people stereotype Asian students as the “model minority” in math achievement: they generalize attributes of a so-called “minority” (racialized) community in a way that just perpetuates racism disguised as a compliment. It is clear, however, that not all students identified as Asian are good at math. The word “Asian” is a category used to represent human […] … learn more→

Blogs allow researchers to engage with a broad audience, including other researchers, in a less formal and more open way than traditional academic publishing. It provides an avenue to publish both research stories and expert commentary. Blogging in the academy is generally a labour of love. Most universities find it difficult to recognize blogging within […] … learn more→

The millennials have transitioned from one different phase to another. Before they could even understand the fast-changing times, they realized how fast the standards of everything were changing. Most of the millennials believe that they are the ones who have seen times shift at an exponential speed. For them, coming to terms for most of […] … learn more→

One of my pet peeves is reading sentences which contain an ambiguous pronoun.  The pronoun stands alone, isolated. The lonely goatherd on the hilltop. Sentences that start with, or contain, an unattached this, they, it, those, these seem to expect the reader to just know what the this, they, it, those, and these refer to. In reality, the singleton pronoun is […] … learn more→