The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has started a list of government web sites that fail to meet accessibility standards. (found via Craig Thomler’s eGov AU blog)
At Australian universities, indigenous student enrolments have increased markedly in the last 10 years.
Andrew Norton points to flaws in the THES ranking of universities — is ANU [...]
Category Archives: noted
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20-Oct-08Noted 4
29-Sep-08A compelling reason to weed out old content from your web site, or at least mark it clearly as outdated.
A tag cloud of more than 1000 university home pages. See also the snapshot data showing how many universities mention blogs on their home page, or use jscript, CSS for print, various coding standards, iTunes and [...]
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22-Sep-08The State Library of WA provides study space and resources for Year 11 and 12 students as they prepare for year-end exams.
The University of Western Australia will adopt the Bologna model for its degree programs: five 3-year bachelor degrees will replace the current 70-odd courses and a range of professional postgrad degrees will provide specialised [...]
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15-Sep-08At CNet.news, Matt Asay summarises my own reservations about the value of large IT market analysis companies like Forrester and Gartner: “Analysts… are a lagging indicator of success. They tell an enterprise buyer from whom she should have purchased software and hardware a few years ago, not where she should invest IT dollars tomorrow… [In [...]
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08-Sep-08The Australian Research Council (ARC) has asked universities to provide information about their researchers’ publication records, so that it can test a suite of performance indicators. The aim, apparently, is to propose that the new performance indicators form part of the Commonwealth Government’s proposed Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) framework.
Peter Merholz observes that conferences [...]