Collaborative development of anatomy workshops for medical and dental students in Cambodia

After Phnom Penh was liberated from the Khmer Rouge in 1979, health science education in Cambodia had to be completely rebuilt. In this article, the authors report the results of a teaching collaboration between the University of Melbourne (Australia), the International University (Cambodia), and the University of Health Sciences (Cambodia). The main objectives in this collaboration were to provide the opportunity for dental and medical students in Cambodia to attend resourced anatomy workshops and to provide an opportunity for anatomy teachers in Cambodia to gain experience in implementing anatomy workshops of the style that are routinely used in the medical and dental curricula at the University of Melbourne. Experienced anatomy educators from the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne, designed and resourced a series of workshops and then delivered these in collaboration with Cambodian teaching staff in Phnom Penh. The Cambodian students who participated in the workshops were incredibly engaged and enthusiastic. The students' evaluations (by questionnaire) indicated a very positive response to the workshops. All of the workshop resources were donated to the two universities so that the staff could continue to implement similar workshops, and plans were developed to continue our collaboration by developing more resourced workshops for this purpose in the future. Two staff members from Cambodia will travel to Melbourne to participate in anatomy workshops and dissection classes at the University of Melbourne. We hope that this extension of the collaboration provides further support and impetus for the development of anatomy education in Cambodia in the future.     

The Monsoon Wedding phenomenon: understanding Indian students studying in Australian universities

How does the University sector identify and support the diverse needs of Indian students? This paper reports on a research project carried out on undergraduate students from India enrolled at a Melbourne‐based University. The focus is the need to understand why Indian students choose an overseas destination for tertiary study. The intent is to explore how the curriculum that they have experienced in their country prepares them for study in another. We examine the expectations of students in relation to studying overseas. The suggestion underlying this paper is that if academic and support staff in tertiary education understand international students in cultural cohorts, then it is more likely that their transition to tertiary education will be easier. We envisage that this may also lead to a greater retention rate for universities.     

The Value of a “Core” Business‐‐a Case Study of the Involvement of an Australian University in Vietnam: 1993‐1998

This article describes how two dovetailing processes led Swinburne University of Technology of Melbourne, Australia, to the setting up of business studies programmes in Vietnam. One of the processes was the increasingly felt need in Australia to make higher education more cost efficient that stimulated the identification and the exploitation of non‐governmental sources of funding. The other one was the decision, taken in 1986 by the Vietnamese government, to move progressively to a market‐based economy. Thus the Vietnamese government created a demand for increasing numbers of professional workers schooled in Western concepts of business management, accounting, administration, etc. The Swinburne University of Technology responded to this demand in a number of creative ways by setting up collaborative course programmes in some of the major cities of Vietnam.     

Simulated consulting: A win-win experience in transport engineering education

Students undertaking a final year elective subject in transportation planning at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, worked on a practical project for which there was an interested outside 'client'. From the students' perspective, this was essentially a 'simulated' consulting project which focused on transport planning issues faced by an inner metropolitan municipality in Melbourne. The overall experience, from everybody's perspective, proved to be so positive that the model for the project will be used in the course in future years. This paper has been written to inform engineering educators of how the project was implemented and to highlight some of the educational issues which this type of experience raised. Of particular interest to educators are issues associated with the functioning of some of the student groups and the opportunities provided by projects of this nature to establish strong links with industry.     

澳大利亚墨尔本大学"墨尔本模式"改革初探

澳大利亚墨尔本大学2008年开始实施的"墨尔本模式",是一次新的课程体制和学位制度改革。文章从墨尔本模式改革的背景出发,概要介绍了这一模式的框架、内涵、特点和优势以及面临的挑战和问题,以期对我国研究型大学的办学理念和课程建设有所借鉴。     

REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article:
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. norman malcolm; with a Biographical Sketch by georg henrik von wright. Oxford University Press .
Goethe's Faust: A Literary Analysis. stuart atkins . Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press .
A Centenary History of the University of Melbourne. geoffrey blainey . Melbourne University Press .
Thinking: An Experimental and Social Study. sir frederic bartlett . Allen & Unwin .
An Analysis of Knowing. john hartland - swann . Allen & Unwin .
Trends in English Adult Education. Edited by s . g . raybould , Heinemann. .
People and Parliament. nigel nicolson . Weidenfeld & Nicolson .
Commonwealth Universities Yearbook 1959. The Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth .     

The Victorian College of Pharmacy: a case study of amalgamation failure and success in Australian higher education

Small specialist higher education institutions often face challenges when negotiating with larger partners. In 1988, John Dawkins, Australia’s federal Minister for Education, introduced sweeping reforms to create a Unified National System of higher education. Dawkins’ criteria for funding necessitated mergers for many smaller providers. The Victorian College of Pharmacy in Melbourne, Victoria, presents a case study of how one institution negotiated this policy and asserted its interests to achieve an optimal outcome. It rejected amalgamation with the University of Melbourne, reaching a superior arrangement with Monash University despite state and federal opposition. This article combines archival research from Melbourne and Monash Universities and the state government with interviews of key players. It examines the importance of institutional identity and how small institutions can navigate government policies of consolidation. It also focuses on the deleterious effects of inflexible government policy and how the College successfully overcame these challenges to complete its desired merger.     

Administration for innovation in higher education

The paper commences from the premise that the major paradigms of administration are not appropriate to higher education. Structural approaches place too great an emphasis on the organization and its mission, subjectivist approaches fail to acknowledge the constraints and enablements of structure and the role of continuity and radical change approaches fail to provide a positive basis for administration. The paper outlines an approach to educational administration which addresses these difficulties. It is based on structuration theory together with cooperative learning theory and group work. The paper reports an investigation of an attempt to apply this approach to the administration of a program of teaching awards in an Australian university. It reports some success and some limitations.Peter Ling is engaged in education quality assurance and educational development at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is the President of the Victorian Branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia. Dr. Ling's current research is in faculty responses to educational development activities. He holds M.Ed, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Melbourne. Lorraine Ling is Chair of the Teaching Center at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia. The focus of her research and publication is analysis of administrative systems in education. She has wide experience in schools and in teacher education. She has engaged in educational consultancy, including faculty development, in Australia, Europe, and Asia. She holds an M.Ed, from Deakin University.     

Review

Consortia: International Networking Alliances of Universities David Teather (ed) (2004). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 261 ISBN 0522850960 (pbk) $44.95     

The Role of Mathematics in Modern Engineering: AEMC 94

The Australian Engineering Mathematics Conference is now a biennial event. In 1994, this took place in Melbourne, sponsored principally by Swinburne University of Technology. It attracted considerable international interest with many delegates coming from Europe. The paper summarises the proceedings.     

Reviews

The Shop. The University of Melbourne, 1850–1939 R. J. W. Selleck, Melbourne University Press, 2003, 855pp.

Just Schooling: Explorations in the Cultural Politics of Teaching Trevor Gale, Karhleen Densmore, Open University Press, Buckingham, 2000, 192pp. ISBN: 0335203221 (Paperback) UK£15.99

Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post —16: New Youth, New Economies in the Global City. Stephen J Ball, Meg Maguire, Sheila Macrae, RoutledgeFalmer, London, 2000, 208pp. ISBN: 0750708603 (Paperback) UK£24.99     

Reflections on a Redefined Early Childhood Practicum

This paper reports the processes and outcomes involved in reconceptualising the practicum experience at the School of Early Childhood Studies, University of Melbourne. The foci of the changes were acknowledging individual stages of student development, ensuring a clearer focus in the process of supervision and redefining the roles of the triad involved in this supervision. Subsequent evaluations indicated that triadic assessment procedures and a competency‐based focus for supervision and assessment achieved the initial goals, with the more recent evaluations suggesting directions for further enhancement of the early childhood practicum.     

Introducing Computer‐based Learning

Education and Training are adapting cautiously and clumsily to incorporate computer‐based learning. Potential benefits of CBL are enormous. It is possible, now, to produce a framework for successful development, requiring collaboration between computer manufacturers, professional trainers and teachers, institutions and national agencies. Diana Laurillard of the Open University Institute of Educational Technology (and currently Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne) offers such a framework.     

An organizational learning perspective on academic development: A strategy for an uncertain future

Abstract

This paper takes as a starting point the interest in organization theory in the idea of ‘learning organizations’ and the practical implications for conceptualizations of academic development. In doing so, it analyses epistemological and methodological complexities associated with the concept of academic development from a perspective that focuses on organizational learning. The contention of the paper is that an appropriate theoretical basis for academic development in the current times is provided by a broad organizational learning perspective. It is argued that an organizational learning methodology for the practice of academic development has the potential to provide powerful learning and feedback structures well‐suited to institutional inquiry and adaptation that will assist universities to meet the turbulence and challenges of an unpredictable future. A vignette from The University of Melbourne describes a prototype for such a methodology.     

教师是高校未来发展的基础决定力量——澳大利亚墨尔本大学的经验与启示

高校教师发展在一定程度上决定着高校未来的发展方向。澳大利亚大学教师发展的形成历程虽然只有短短三四十年的时间,但其发展速度和实施成效不容小觑。目前,澳大利亚很多高校已委托学校的人力资源部门,对学校的教职员进行管理,同时一些高校的人力资源部门根据自身的实际情况还设置了大学教师发展中心,为教师发展提供必要的支持和服务。以具有代表性的墨尔本大学教师发展实施机制为案例加以分析,为深化对我国高校教师发展现状的认识提供借鉴。     

A review of the use of video‐conferencing for actuarial education — a three‐year case study

This paper reviews the three‐year history of teaching actuarial studies in live time by video‐conferencing from The University of Melbourne to students at The Australian National University, Canberra. The paper discusses the practicalities of this programme including aspects relating to students, staff and the technology. The outcomes for students at both institutions are presented together with a discussion of a number of issues from the perspectives of the lecturing staff. Some limitations of the programme are also presented.     

澳大利亚学士后教师教育的新模式——墨尔本大学"教学硕士计划"评析

2008年,澳大利亚墨尔本大学教育学院推出了一种全新的教学硕士(Master of Tea-ching)计划。本文对该计划推出的背景和动因,以及该计划的做法和特点进行了分析。墨尔本大学的经验和做法对我国的职前教育硕士培养具有启示作用。     

Priority clienteles for external studies in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education

Is it desirable and practicable that certain types of higher education should be directed towards particular groups in society and not others? This fundamental issue is considered here by John Anwyl and Margaret Powles of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. The authors' particular concern is with External Studies in Australia, but similar arguments could be (and have been) made in respect of other kinds of part‐time provision in other countries. This is a revised version of a paper presented to the 8th Biennial Forum of the Australian and South Pacific External Studies Association, held at the University of New England in July 1987.     

研究型大学教学原则——以墨尔本大学教学九大原则为例

创办研究型大学是当前大学改革发展的一个重要走向,关于什么是研究型大学、如何建设研究型大学的问题学术界早已进行热烈的讨论。作为一所一流的研究型大学它不仅要在科研方面突出,更应该在教学方面有优越的表现。本文将以墨尔本大学为例,探讨研究型大学应该如何教学。     

Review Essay

Richard Tesse, Academic Success and Social Power: Examinations and Inequality Melbourne University Press, 2000