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Cover Story : Taking the Role of English Language Seriously in Higher Education
In this issue's cover story, Sophie Arkoudis, Deputy Director of the CSHE, discusses the need to raise English language education standards across the tertiary sector if Australian institutions wish to remain globally competitive. Read the complete article here From The Director
The second edition of CSHE News coincides with the Centre’s move to spacious, newly refurbished premises at 715 Swanston Street, Carlton as part of the University of Melbourne’s incremental expansion southwards towards Melbourne’s central business district. Joining the CSHE at this location is the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, creating an unprecedented critical mass within Australia of expertise in the field of higher education and major opportunities for collaborative research between the two organisations. The CSHE’s engagement with national and international issues in higher continues to be at very high levels. Professor Simon Marginson has just returned to Melbourne following an extensive tour of Europe and USA in which he presented numerous papers. Simon has a suite of international engagements for the remainder of the year. Next week I head to the UK, Hong Kong and Bangkok for invited papers. On the University of Melbourne front, the CSHE’s involvement in the Melbourne Model is intensive. The University’s major transformation of all aspects of its curricula has made the expertise of CSHE academic staff in demand. In late November the CSHE will be reviewed as part of the University of Melbourne’s cycle of reviews of its research centres. We are very pleased to announce that Professor Frans van Vught will be a member of the review panel. In our first newsletter in May we featured two of our Research Fellows who were about to embark on maternity leave. We have subsequently welcomed two delightful baby girls into the extended CSHE family: Aylish is the new daughter of Dr Kelly Farrell and her partner Damien and Greta is the daughter of Dr Emmaline Bexley and her partner Zoltan. These are the first children for both families. Congratulations to all. CSHE Post
Investing in the Future : Renewing Tertiary Education The CSHE, in conjunction with the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management, has just presented the last of a series of highly successful public seminars exploring the issues and ideas surrounding the Federal Government's reviews of the Australian higher education and national innovation systems. The series was exceptionally well-received and was attended by members of the tertiary education and government sectors, as well as members of the general public. High-profile speakers and Chairs, including a number of Australian university Vice-Chancellors, offred provocative ideas for the future shape of the higher education sector. For detailed descriptions of each seminar, plus a selection of papers and presentations from the series, please visit the Investing in the Future website. New Projects CSHE staff Sophie Arkoudis and Chi Baik have recently been awarded an ALTC Grant for the project 'Enhancing domestic and international student engagement: strategies for influencing attitudes and behaviours'. This caps off a busy period for both as they are also working on the DEEWR-funded project, 'The impact of English language proficiency and workplace readiness on employment outcomes and performance of tertiary students' , along with CSHE staff member Emmaline Bexley and University of Melbourne staff Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Keiran O'Loughlin and Graeme Hawthorne. Bookshelf
Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement - DEEWR Final Report The final report of a commissioned project to develop a model for an Australian Diploma Supplement. The project was jointly lead by Professor Richard James, Director of the CSHE and Professor Lynn Meek (previously of the University of New England's Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy [CHEMP]) and now Director of LH Martin Institute. 'Global Field and Global Imagining : Bourdieu and Worldwide Higher Education', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29:3, 303-315 Simon Marginson maps the global dimension of higher education and associated research, including the differentiation of national systems and institutions, while reflecting critically on theoretical tools for working this terrain. Spotlight
This issue we focus on a Visiting Scholar at the CSHE, Dr Christine Asmar. Christine is visiting the CSHE for six months and is from the University of Sydney's Institute of Teaching and Learning. With research interests spanning a range of cultural diversity issues in higher education, Christine has investigated the course experience of Muslim students at Australian universities, as well as in United States institutions. In recent years she has focused her attention on the experiences and roles of Indigenous academics in Australia, obtaining funding from the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) to carry out a national study in collaboration with an Aboriginal colleague, Associate Professor Susan Page of Macquarie University. Christine and Susan have just been awarded further funding from AIATSIS to extend their Australian study, and Christine was also instrumental in setting up their ongoing three-way research collaboration with a Maori colleague, Dr Ocean Mercier, in Wellington, New Zealand. In relation to her work in the important area of Indigenous teaching and learning, Christine was successful this year in obtaining a $90,000 Teaching Fellowship from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). The Fellowship, to commence in 2009, will support the development of research-based guidelines for university staff (from all backgrounds) who are involved in Indigenous teaching. |
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