[LINK] Australian uni review to make sector more competitive

[David]

On 26/2/23 09:28, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On Thursday 200 student listened to clients pitch their projects, then formed teams to implement them. There are also about 40 interns working in companies and government agencies.
Interesting...  How do you assess student's performance when the projects would vary so much in difficulty and "assessibility" for want of a better word?

Are the clients charged and, if so, who gets paid?

I've long felt group projects for internal university clients would be a great idea, but surely a single project would have to be chosen by the Department in the interests of a level playing field?  The standard of such student projects can vary enormously too, so a client would want to select the best implementation produced rather than run the risk of a time-wasting failure by one particular group.

I've seen it done once, where a package to support research within the Faculty of Science (into the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine) was adopted.

David Lochrin