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Joint report on learning and teaching quality
Friday 12 June 2009 - 01:00am

All Australian universities have made significant improvements in the core activity of learning and teaching, although the main improvements in the first half of this decade were in the development of policies, plans and processes. Read more...

Professor Patricia Vilkinas
Improving leadership capability
Monday 01 June 2009 - 04:51pm

Academic coordinators have a direct impact on the learning outcomes of large numbers of students, but few have well-developed leadership skills, an ALTC-funded report has found. “Improving the leadership capability of academic coordinators in postgraduate and undergraduate programs in business” was led by Professor Patricia Vilkinas (above) of the University of South Australia and funded as part of the ALTC’s Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching grants program. The project investigated the leadership capabilities of academic coordinators at the UniSA and Curtin University of Technology. Read more...