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Direct linkClare Thorpe; Tanya Honey; Erica Wilson – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Reading lists have been described as a stalwart of the academic environment. This article explores the role of reading lists as a pedagogical tool and describes how reading lists contribute to an immersive block teaching model at an Australian university. Little has been written about the application of reading lists in block teaching models. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Lists, Higher Education, Block Scheduling
Download full textDavies, Martin – Australian Universities' Review, 2019
In 2018 Australia's leading national university, the Austrailian National University (ANU), decided to break off consultation with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation over a bequest to fund a course on Western civilisation. It is not every day that a university decides to turn down a $3 billion bequest to fund a humanities program (Groch,…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, College Curriculum
Brooker, Abi; McKague, Meredith; Phillips, Lisa – Student Success, 2019
This article reports and extends on an emerging initiative presented at the 2018 STARS Conference (Auckland, New Zealand). Many universities are invested in student mental health, but solutions can be hindered by concerns about the fit, cost, effectiveness, or sustainability of diverse initiatives. We argue that university staff looking to support…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Holistic Approach, College Curriculum, Well Being
Page, Susan; Trudgett, Michelle; Bodkin-Andrews, Gawaian – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
Globally, rapid technological advancement is creating widespread concern about workforces of the future, and universities are expected to produce highly skilled graduates to meet the unremitting demands of knowledge economies. In this context, graduate attributes are a means for developing employability skills and an avenue for institutions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, College Graduates, Curriculum Development
Fildes, Karen J.; Beck, Eleanor; Bur, Tatiana; Burns, Pippa; Chisholm, Laurie A.; Dillon, Carolyn T.; Kuit, Tracey A.; McMahon, Anne T.; Neale, Elizabeth P.; Paton-Walsh, Clare; Powell, Sophie; Skropeta, Danielle; Stefoska-Needham, Anita; Tomlin, Alison; Treweek, Teresa M.; Walton, Karen; Kennedy, Jade – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This article will describe an approach to curriculum reconciliation that aspires to be the first step towards recognising that Indigenous ways of knowing have equal value and status as the dominant institutional systems of knowledge. Specifically, curriculum reconciliation is considered in the context of building knowledge-based relationships…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Relevance (Education), Science Education, Medical Education
Clarke, Patricia; Henning, Joerg; Coleman, Glen; Schull, Daniel – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
In Australia, the inception of veterinary technology, as a higher education discipline underpinning an emerging, mid-tier paraveterinary field, reflected global trends for more highly educated veterinary paraprofessionals to meet changing societal demands. In this study, veterinary technology graduates were surveyed about their experiences in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Veterinary Medicine, Paraprofessional Personnel, Allied Health Personnel
Galloway, Kate – Journal of Learning Design, 2015
Traditionally considered the preserve of environmental law, for the lawyer and the legal academic, sustainability does not immediately come to mind in considering the subjects of the core curriculum. Yet in light of the contemporary imperative to deal with serious ecological decline and its social and economic implications, a law degree that fails…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Legal Education (Professions), College Curriculum, Real Estate
Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Bajada, Christopher; Kandlbinder, Peter; Trayler, Rowan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Systematic changes to higher education curriculum typically occur within the extended timeframes of formal curriculum review processes. Programmes need to be reviewed periodically for internal and external accountability or to determine whether the curriculum has lost its coherence due to the accumulative effect of continual small-scale changes.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods
Bader, Lena; Bereuther, Tabea; Deutsch, Elisabeth; Edlinger, Julia; Fureder, Silvia; Kaspar, Emanuel; Kottstorfer, Marlene; Mautner, Claudia; Rossegger, Christine; Samonig, Alina; Samonig, Stefan; Schuster, Christoph; Witz, Gerhard; Zotter, Victoria; Ahamer, Gilbert – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2013
Purpose: Based on an in-depth comparison of 20 multicultural university curricula, this article aims to provide practical and implementable suggestions about how to improve such curricula in order to ensure highest and globally compatible academic quality. The recently founded developmental Master's curriculum "Global Studies" (GS) at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Salisbury, Fiona; Sheridan, Linda – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This article will outline the development of an Information Literacy Strategy in 2009 as part of an overall program of curriculum review and renewal at La Trobe University, Australia. Current information literacy programs at La Trobe University Library employ a diverse range of approaches and delivery methods. However, they are limited in scope…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Information Literacy, Academic Libraries
Hegarty, Kathryn; Thomas, Ian; Kriewaldt, Cathryn; Holdsworth, Sarah; Bekessy, Sarah – Environmental Education Research, 2011
Education for sustainability (EfS) is emerging as an urgent imperative and challenge for higher education. But what exactly does it mean to put sustainability into higher education? How do we bring sustainability themes into university curriculum, across the enormous diversity of academic disciplines? This paper describes the experience of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Courses, Curriculum Implementation, College Curriculum
Vikas, Om – Online Submission, 2012
Globalization has put countries in competitive and collaborative mode. Underdeveloped nations are in catch-up phase, developing nations are in competitive phase and the advanced nations are in commanding phase with respect to certain technologies. Innovation--Technological, Business and Education--is imperative for sustainable socio-economic…
Descriptors: Innovation, Creativity, Engineering Education, Technical Education
Crossman, Joanna; Burdett, Jane – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
It is now commonplace to find quality audit processes being applied in universities internationally as a means of assessing the quality of teaching and learning. This article draws upon a thematic analysis of 14 second-round Australian Universities Quality Agency reports in order to explore matters arising from the academic engagement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Watts, Michael; Walstad, William B. – Journal of Economic Education, 2010
In this article, the authors explain the purpose and context for the 2009 International Symposium on Economic Education that was the source for articles on four nations with relatively developed systems for economic education: Australia, England, Japan, and Korea. The authors highlight several key comparisons from the four articles that appear in…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Undergraduate Students
