'Know the sector...' 15-17 April 2015, Canberra
'Know the organisation...' 10-12 June 2015, Melbourne
'Know the person...' 5-7 August 2015, Sydney
Strengthen your understanding of the higher education sector, benefit from current leaders' insights and refine your practical skills through engagement with peers. These are some of the benefits of our new Leading and Managing in Universities
program. Known as Tertiary Education Leadership in previous years, this year's program is made up of three standalone workshops with focus moving from the sector, to the organisation, to the personal/professional level. Participants will be organised into two interwoven strands to address the similar and different needs of university academic and corporate leaders. They will also be encouraged to recognise the importance of self-reflection in order to develop resilience in environments of constant change. Read more about this program on our website.
28-29 May 2015, Melbourne 17-18 September 2015, Sydney
Given the decrease in funding for the sector, managing budgets within a tertiary education context brings particular challenges and requires a unique understanding of how organisations operate and the financial systems which support their activities. This program provides an opportunity to enhance your understanding of financial systems, tools and processes, and optimise their use to improved management and strategic planning.
Available for guided cohorts or individual study program. Next start date for individual program is 23 March.
A unique and contextualised professional development program to equip you and your institution with the necessary skills to navigate the complexities of the tertiary education sector.
The LH Martin Institute is leading a major research project on the nature and diversity of the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) industry which is modelled on the Institute's previous research on Australia's University sector.
The LH Martin Institute made a submission to the national VET Reform Taskforce as part of its Review of Training Packages and Accredited Courses. Read the submission.
1-2pm, 11 March 2015, Barbara Falk Room, Level 1, 715 Swanston St, Carlton (Melbourne)
Jarod Horvath from the University of Melbourne's School of Psychological Sciences will explore what the neuroscienctific, psychological, and educational research says about what does (and does not!) work with slideware.
The LH Martin Institute is proud to announce Associate Professor Ruth Schubert as its new Associate Director. Ruth joined the Institute in 2014 as Program Director and was Director of Business Transformation at TAFE South Australia prior to that. Regarding the appointment, Institute Director Leo Goedegebuure said that he was delighted and convinced that together they can take the Institute to greater heights in the new Melbourne CSHE context. Congratulations Ruth!
As announced in December, the LH Martin Institute has undergone a structural change to become part of the new Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, or Melbourne CSHE. As part of that change, a new professional staff structure is in place to provide support for the Institute's programs and events. Over the coming weeks, if not already, you will see their names in our communications or perhaps meet them in person. So we would like to take this opportunity to get you acquainted with their names and roles. Some of whom you may be familiar with already.
Anna Steer - Centre Manager
Cara McGrain - Executive Assistant (starting in March)
Sylvia Schaffarczyk - Professional Development Manager
Michelle van Kampen - Professional Development Coordinator
Amalie Hart - Program Officer
Molly McKew - Program Officer
Dina Uzhegova - Program Officer (starting in March)
Apart from new staff, we also welcomed two new Honorary Fellows to the LH Martin Institute family: Dr Janet Beard and Dr Jeanette Baird. Dr Beard brings with her more than thirty years of experience in management roles at three Australian universities and Dr Baird her extensive knowledge on quality assurance standards as well as management and academic positions in Australian universities. Welcome aboard Janet and Jeanette.
Leo Goedegebuure together with his colleague Timo Arrevaara from the University of Helsinki have been appointed the new editors of Springer’s “The Changing Academy Series”. So far the series has primarily focused on publishing the research outcomes of the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) project, resulting in fourteen edited volumes with another six in the pipeline. The new editors aim to broaden the scope of the series by including a focus on academic careers in the STEM disciplines and by addressing the career prospects and expectations of the younger academic generation. The series will retain its international comparative character that has proven to be one of its strong and distinguishing features. Two books in the series have received the
“Best Book Award” from the Comparative and International Education Society. If you are undertaking conceptual or empirical work in this area and believe you can add to our stock of knowledge please contact the editors with a brief outline.
Fellow Peter Noonan proposes an alternative to the current higher education review in 'Review constraints unclear: Davis', The Australian, 28 January.
Program Director Geoff Sharrock questions Senator Xenophon’s claim that $100k degrees would “look cheap” under market caps in 'Market caps would limit $100,000 university degrees', The Conversation, 9 February.
Harvard and MIT are being sued for violating antidiscrimination laws by not providing closed captions in their online lectures, courses, podcasts and other educational materials, The New York Times, 12 February.
We welcome your feedback on this newsletter and invite you to pitch your idea(s) for an opinion piece on tertiary education leadership and management. Cleared articles will be published on our blog Insights and featured in an upcoming edition of the newsletter, which goes out to senior managers, leaders and policy makers in tertiary education in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. Please contact Marisa Simanjuntak Saeter for more information.
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This edition's banner features a photo taken at our 2014 leadership program in South Africa, which was jointly hosted by the Swedish International Development Agency and SANTRUST of South Africa. The program was attended by higher education professionals from across Africa and Southeast Asia.
LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management,
Level 1, 715 Swanston Street, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Ph: +61 3 8344 0756
Email: martin-institute@unimelb.edu.au
Web: lhmi.edu.au