Why don’t higher education academics need to be trained to teach?
One of the underlying fundamentals of our entire education system is that those who teach are trained as professional educators. For example, in early childhood education there are both diploma trained and bachelor trained teachers to ensure that preschoolers start their education journey in a quality teaching environment. In primary education only qualified teachers are […]
Let’s celebrate those who graduate
HELI is proud to announce that its first cohort of students recently completed their course. All the students who started the course back in July 2018 have successfully graduated – a 100% completion rate, which we are very proud of. All of our first cohort of students already held a PhD or Masters in their […]
Calling out the elephant in the room
Adjunct Associate Professor Kym Fraser from Swinburne University of Technology has done an admirable job in calling out the elephant in the room with her Feature Story in Campus Morning Mail. As the story notes, it really is unthinkable that while educators need teaching qualifications for early childhood, primary, secondary and vocational education; in higher education […]
Do you know what your partner is up to?
Some would say It has been a while coming, but TEQSA has recently placed conditions on an Australian university. Not only has Charles Sturt University (CSU) had conditions placed on its registration, it has also received a shorter registration period of four years rather than the expected seven. In this blog I would like to […]
Aat continues to thwart teqsa decisions
It is interesting to note that the 4 most recent approvals of new independent higher education providers (iHEPs) were as a result of intervention by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). This covers the 3 new HEPS listed on the National Register in 2018 as well as one so far this year. This compares to 5 approvals in […]
Independent higher education – the year in review
2018 was another year where independent higher education providers (iHEPs) fought hard to consolidate their important place in the Australian higher education sector. Here are my key observations from the past 12 months. Independent HEPs remain the “poor relation” of higher education. 2018 reinforced that we are a long way from iHEPs being compared equally […]
Do your academic staff meet the standard?
The current Higher Education Standards Framework (HESF2015) requires all HE academic staff to meet three requirements: These requirements are quite specific and from what I have observed across the tertiary education sector, many academic staff currently working in independent HEPs may not comprehensively meet all three. In response to this regulatory imperative for appropriately qualified […]
Heli receives teqsa approval
After two years of amazing work by the entire HELI team, we are pleased to announce that HELI has been granted approval as a higher education provider effective from 23rd November 2017. It has been a challenging journey to reach this very significant milestone and we are now busily working towards our first delivery of […]
The imperative for enhanced governance in rtos
Recently the CEO of ACPET, Rod Camm wrote: “One of my other observations following the recent concerns is the need to lift the academic leadership and governance of the [VET] sector so that the balance of academic and commercial imperatives is better ensured.” In light of these comments, last Tuesday HELI delivered its new webinar […]
Delivering quality higher education. Easy, right?
1.9 Trillion Reasons Why You Need to Think about Quality in Higher Education Quality in education, particularly higher education, doesn’t sound exciting. Let’s put it in context. Higher education is estimated to be a US$1.9 trillion global service sector. An awful lot of people are paying a relatively significant sum for their education. A smaller number people […]