[Herdsa] [HERDSA]: News on Wed 3 June 2009

Wed Jun 3 11:32:19 EST 2009

Dear List Members,

HERDSA2009 Darwin Conference Update:

Registrations: nearing 300 please register asap if you are intending to come
to Darwin as we are nearing room capacity.

Program: all abstracts are now linked to the program pages
http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2009/program.html. A printable version of
the program will be available next! Please note that all registrants will
receive a printed program with abstracts and a USB with the refereed papers
and where requested non-refereed papers. A full printed conference
proceedings will be available for purchase. 

More updates in coming weeks.

Regards
Helen Wozniak and Janet Sincock
Herdsa2009 at cdu.edu.au 

This week we also have the following:

	Forthcoming Conferences

	Invitation to participate in symposia organised by National GAP
(Graduate Attributes Project)

	Latest News from AUQA

	Special issue of Higher Education in Europe on The Bologna Effect:
Perspectives on Influences and Changes in Higher Education

	Links to Articles of interest in higher education.

1) FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES

New Zealand Higher Education Summit

The inaugural New Zealand Higher Education Summit, to be held on the 12 &
13th August 2009 at the Duxton Hotel, Wellington.

Note - there is a 15% discount for HERDSA members and a detailed brochure is
available from 

www.informa.com.au/nzhighereducation

Organised by the conveners of the industry-acclaimed Higher Education Summit
held annually in Australia, the New Zealand Summit will provide a
comprehensive program, tackling key issues and also providing cross-sector
networking experiences for New Zealand's tertiary sector.

Here is a glimpse of what the three days will cover:

Day one & Day two - General Policy, Planning & Strategy

    * Shaping the New Zealand higher education system - policy, regulation
and governance; prospects for future reforms; and a case study look across
the Tasman Sea at the outcomes of the Australian Higher Education Review  
    * Adapting to the changing world - global economic slowdown and the
response by tertiary sub-sectors
    * Equity issues - improvement and progress 
    * Developing external relationships with the community, secondary
education and other sub-sectors
    * International issues - growth and opportunity for international
education; relationship-building with overseas alumni; and prospects for
harmonisation between the Australian/New Zealand tertiary systems

* Optional day three - Research & Innovation Forum

    * Central Government policy, the PBRF model, assessing domestic
productivity and global competition, market capitalisation, knowledge
transfer and strengthening networks and business clusters

A glimpse of the speaker faculty for 2009

    * Hon. Anne Tolley MP, Minister for Education
    * Prof. Richard James, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher
Education & Prof. of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
    * Linda Sissions, CEO, Wellington Institute of Technology
    * Prof. Graham Smith, CEO , Te Whare Wnanga o Awanuirangi
    * Sophia Blair & Jordan King, Co-Presidents, New Zealand Union of
Students Association
    * Edwige Fava, President, New Zealand Association of Private Education
Providers
    * Margie Scotts, CEO, Adult Community Education Aotearoa
    * Prof. Jeannie Herbert, Vice Chancellor & CEO, Bachelor Institute of
Indigenous Education, Australia
    * Derek McCormack, Vice Chancellor, Auckland University of Technology
    * Dr. Rick Ede, Chief Executive and President, Unitec New Zealand
    * Jeremy Baker, Executive Director, Industry Training Federation
    * Jeremy Hill, Group Director Technology & Chief Technology Officer,
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited
    * Dr. Rod Carr, Vice Chancellor, University of Canterbury

HERDSA is endorsing this event as it has done for the Australian
counterpart.

The 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity:

28-30 September

University of Wollongng

Just a reminder for those considering coming to the 4APCEI conference in
Wollongong, September 28-30. The deadline for "one-pagers" is 31 May 2009. 

What's a one-pager?

a short 100-200 word abstract 

the key ideas listed as dot points 

two discussion questions 

See links below for more information.

Conference website: http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/4APCEI_2009/home.html

Call for Papers http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/4APCEI_2009/papers.html

The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) warmly invites you to
contribute to Society's Annual Conference in December 2009.

In launching these Calls for Papers the Society seeks research contributions
from the international higher education research community on the theme of  

"Challenging Higher Education: knowledge, policy and practice"

For details of the types of proposals invited and all conference information
please see the attached Calls for Papers and visit the SRHE Conference
website at http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2009

The closing dates for abstract submissions are as follows:

SRHE Conference 8-10 December 2009

Closing date for abstract submissions: 24 July 2009

SRHE Postgraduate and Newer Researchers Conference 7 December 2009  

Closing date for abstract submissions: 17 August 2009 

The conference venue this year is the prestigious Celtic Manor resort in the
USK Valley, South Wales UK.

The SRHE welcomes all contributions and we hope that the Call for Papers
will excite your interest and that you will have a submission to put
forward.

The SRHE Annual conferences have become established as major events in the
higher education calendar and invaluable opportunities to present and debate
current higher education research issues across a very broad spectrum of
interests. The SRHE Conference attracts over 400 delegates and the SRHE PGNR
conference over 100 student participants. Both events draw presenters and
delegates from around the world and international participation rates are
high.

We hope that you will have research work to present at these conferences and
we hope to have the opportunity to welcome you to these SRHE events in
December.

Helen Perkins
Director
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) 
76 Portland Place 
London W1B 1NT 
hsperkins at srhe.ac.uk
http://www.srhe.ac.uk

2) INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A SYMPOSIUM - JULY/AUG 2009.

National GAP (Graduate Attributes Project) funded by the Australian Learning
and Teaching Council (ALTC)

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to participate in one of five national symposia on graduate
attributes being held across Australia in July - August this year, as the
final phase of the ALTC funded National GAP (Graduate Attributes Project)
scoping study.  The GAP symposia are open to anybody who is interested in
the topic of graduate attributes and invitations have been sent to staff at
all 36 participating universities.  These events will build on the two GAP
network events held last year to support the dissemination of the GAP
discussion papers and initiate further collaborative work on this topic.
The program will include opportunities for participants to:

.         Showcase, and seek national and international collaboration on,
graduate attributes initiatives from their own university, by presenting a
poster or an invited presentation.

.         Explore the missing student voice in graduate attributes through
presentations from local student organisations in each state, as well as
from leaders of international student organisations in Europe, Scotland and
Hong Kong.

.         Connect with a similar network of colleagues (representing each of
the 20 HE institutions) currently working on the Scottish Quality
Enhancement Theme 'Graduates for the 21st Century', supported by a
presentation from the Assistant Director of the QAA in Scotland . This
provides a unique opportunity for international exchange and comparison of
practices on this topic.

.         Discuss the possible role of graduate attributes in future
institutional quality assurance strategies supported by a presentation from
AUQA.

The dates for the five state symposia are: 

.         Queensland, Griffith University, Thursday 2 July

.         New South Wales, The University of Sydney, Monday 13 July

.         South Australia, University of Adelaide, Friday 17 July

.         Western Australia, Curtin University of Technology, Monday 20 July

.         Victoria, The University of Melbourne, Monday 10 August

There is no charge to participate in the symposia and lunch will be
provided. The draft program, and registration for the events is available
via the GAP website at:
http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/projects/nationalgap/networkevents.cfm

As well as registering for the event, we encourage you to also consider
preparing a poster describing some of your own work on the topic of graduate
attributes.  These are simple to prepare using a powerpoint slide and we
will arrange printing and laminating of your poster - which is yours to keep
after the event.  The posters are a way of sharing your work nationally
(they will be used at other GAP symposia in other states) and also
internationally -they will be used at similar events in Scotland later this
year and we hope they will form the basis for future collaboration.  

If you have any questions about the symposia please don't hesitate to
contact the project research assistant (Kate Thomson) k.thomson at usyd.edu.au
or a member of the project team.

Kind regards, 

The GAP team: Simon Barrie, Clair Hughes, Calvin Smith & Kate Thomson

3) AUQA News - May 2009

The AUQA Newsletter for May 2009 is now available on the AUQA website.

You may peruse via the following link:

http://www.auqa.edu.au/files/auqanews/auqanews_may09.pdf

If you are having difficulty accessing the newsletter directly, go to:

http://www.auqa.edu.au/aboutauqa/auqanews/

4) Higher Education in Europe:  Volume 34 Issue 1 

Special Issue: The Bologna Effect: Perspectives on Influences and Changes in
Higher Education

Available online for subscribers but abstracts available to all.

(http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=0379-7724&volume=34&is
sue=1&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email) is now
available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

5) Articles about Higher Education from www.universityworldnews.com

Note from List Moderator.
There are a number of interesting articles this week but unfortunately I was
not able to access the site at the time of compiling this newsletter so I am
unable to provide the link for each of the abstracts like I usually do.
Hopefully those interested in reading the full versions of these articles
will have better luck.

NEW ZEALAND: Poor budget for universities
John Gerritsen
New Zealand's universities are counting the costs of last week's government
budget, which took with one hand and gave just a little with the other. The
budget, the first by the new conservative National Party-led government, was
aimed at dealing with the economic recession and securing New Zealand's
international credit rating against a possible downgrade.
Full report on the University World News site

AUSTRALIA: New quality and standards watchdog
David Woodhouse*
As part of its 2009 budget statements, the Australian government announced
its intention to create a Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency.
This was the result of a recommendation from a review of higher education to
create a single national regulatory body. 
Full report on the University World News site

AUSTRALIA: International education's contribution
Julia Gillard*
International education has made a significant contribution to Australia. It
has grown to become our third largest source of overseas earnings,
generating $15.5 billion in 2008 and supporting more than 125,000 jobs. In
2008, nearly 500,000 students came to Australia and it is the lead sector in
terms of export earnings in Victoria and the second largest in New South
Wales. 
Full report on the University World News site

AUSTRALIA: Research hogs 'rip-off' the system
Top universities in Australia were using marriages of convenience with
medical research institutes to inflate their research income and prestige
and to secure an unfair slice of sought-after block funds for
infrastructure, university chief Ross Milbourne said, reports Bernard Lane
for The Australian. Milbourne, chairman of the Australian Technology Network
of universities, sharply criticised the practice as a "rort" and a
"rip-off".
More on the University World News site

NEW ZEALAND: Canterbury sets research standards
Slack academics will be in the spotlight under research standards being
developed at Canterbury University in New Zealand, reports Rebecca Todd for
The Press. Vice-chancellor Rod Carr said the university aimed to set minimum
research output levels for academics. Those not performing could not
reasonably expect to continue their work at the university.
More on the University World News site

Roger Landbeck
List Moderator