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27 November 2015

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Professional staff: bureaucratic burden or strategic partners?

by Stephen Gray

UNSW Climate Change Research Centre Manager and MTEM graduate Stephen Gray writes on our blog about the academic-professional staff relationship.


 

Some innovation in the innovation debate, please

by Prof. Leo Goedegebuure and Prof. Lynn Meek

Current and former Directors of LH Martin Institute Leo Goedegebuure and Lynn Meek on the need to re-focus the innovation debate on human capital, rather than research metrics.

2016 postgraduate courses - applications open and final info session available


 

Master of Tertiary Education Management

Applications close 18 January 2016

A two-year, part time course designed for middle to senior level educators, administrators and scholars seeking to extend their knowledge and skills in tertiary sector leadership and management. Read more or apply.


 

Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education Management

Applications close 18 January 2016

Our one-year, part time course designed for aspiring and middle level educators, administrators and scholars seeking to extend their knowledge and skills in tertiary sector leadership and management. Read more or apply.


 

Graduate Certificate in Research Management and Policy

Applications close 18 January 2016

Our one-year, part time course for middle to senior level researchers and research policy makers to develop skills in tertiary education sector research management and research policy. Read more or apply.


 

Graduate Certificate in Quality Assurance

Applications close 18 January 2016

Our one-year, part time course designed for educators, administrators and quality assurance practitioners seeking to extend their knowledge and skills in tertiary education quality assurance. Read more or apply.


 

Online information sessions for 2016 postgraduate courses

1-2pm AEDT, 3 December 2015

If you are interested in one of the postgraduate courses above, our final online information session will enable you to hear more and ask questions directly to our staff. Read more and register.

2016 single subjects - a taster of our postgraduate courses or an opportunity to learn something new


The LH Martin Institute's single subjects are online subjects that are normally offered as part of its Masters or Graduate Certificate courses which participants can undertake exclusively, in assessed or non-assessed mode. Those who successfully complete the assessed mode can use the credit points earned towards our Masters or Graduate Certificate courses.

Below is a list of subjects offered in summer and first semesters of  2016. Please refer to our website for the complete list of single subjects offered in 2016.


 

Research Evaluation

11 January - 4 March 2016

A subject providing an overview of research evaluation and its place in science policy. Taught by experts in science technology studies and research policy respectively: Professor Tomas Hellström and Professor Merle Jacob from Lund University, Sweden. Read more or apply.


 

Institutional Governance in Tertiary Education

29 February - 13 May 2016

An online subject providing an overview of what makes effective institutional governance in tertiary education. Including the legal basis of the institution and its charter or mission and the roles and responsibilities of governing bodies. Read more or apply.

 


 

Managing Tertiary Education Teaching and Learning

29 February - 13 May 2016

An online subject on managing effective student learning in tertiary education. Read more or apply.


 

Managing International Tertiary Education

9 May -  4 July 2016

An online subject providing an overview of the key elements of leading and managing internationalisation in tertiary education. Read more or apply.

 

Free public events at the LH Martin Institute and Melbourne CSHE


Note: although the following events are free, please register if you would like to attend to help us ensure venue comfort for all attendees as well as to contact you in the event of last minute changes. We thank you for your cooperation.


 

Horizontal Inequalities in Access to Tertiary Education in Australia

1-2pm, 1 December 2015

A seminar by Krzysztof Czarnecki, Visiting Researcher at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, on how the social backgrounds of students influence their choices of particular tertiary schools. Read more or register.


 

Academic Work from a Comparative Perspective

1-2pm, 2 December 2015

Our Research Fellow Dr Peter Bentley will present an empirical examination of how academics in the 21st century differ across and within countries on three core elements of their work: time use, research productivity and research orientation. Read more or register.


 

Engaging with 'the Rise of Asia' in Transnational Education Contexts

1-2pm, 7 December 2015

This seminar by Professor Phan Le-Ha from University of Hawaii at Manoa will discuss how 'the rise of Asia' is interdependent with 'the West', the English language and the commercialisation of higher education. Read more or register.

LH Martin Institute community news


Survey of managerial and service innovations at Australian and New Zealand universities

Call for participants

We are collaborating with the Australian Innovation Research Centre (AIRC) at the University of Tasmania to conduct the first comprehensive survey of managerial and service innovations in Australian and New Zealand universities. For those who have received a request to participate, we kindly ask that you do so to allow us to conduct this very valuable study on managerial and service innovations in universities. For those who have not received an invitation by early December but would like to participate, please read more about the survey or contact Sarah Gatenby at the AIRC to be provided with an online link to the survey.


Stimulus paper on shared leadership launched at recent ISSoTL conference in Melbourne

The stimulus paper on 'Developing and Sustaining Shared Leadership in Higher Education', which is co-authored by our Program Director Dr Heather Davis and was announced in our September newsletter, was launched in Australia at the recent International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference. Read more about the launch or download a copy of the paper on our website.

LH Martin Institute in the media


Honorary Fellow Brendan Sheehan commented on the dodgy practices of a private vocational education provider in 'Cornerstone Investments college business lucrative but a lesson in failure', The Australian, 31 October 2015. [Note: article behind paywall.]

 

Director Leo Goedegebuure commented on findings of an OECD report which indicated positive employment and salary outcomes for graduates of Australian universities in 'University graduates do 'spectacularly well' with jobs, wages', The Australian, 25 November 2015. [Note: article behind paywall.]

 

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