A course will equip supervisors with better skills – but they need institutional backup too.
The CHE’s damning report provides ample evidence of the need for urgently reforming the undergraduate curriculum — but are its proposals workable?
Academics often can’t spell out the conventions of knowledge-making they take for granted.
Academics are being offered fantastic freebies to attend dubious conferences at luxurious venues.
Outdated models of academic support still persist in universities.
How today’s university lecturers were themselves taught might not be adequate for students now.
The research supervisor’s lot is not always a happy one, writes <b>Chrissie Boughey</b>.
Structural changes have been made but cultural changes are taking longer.
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/ 26 November 2010
The research-subsidy formula could be undermining academic quality.