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Bauman Moscow State Technical University. El № FS 77 - 48211. ISSN 1994-0408
AUSTRALIA: Principles allow global assessment of postgrad degrees
26.09.2010
Higher education leaders from 17 countries last week agreed to a set of principles for assessing the quality of postgraduate education and research training. Employment skills, research supervision structures, student experience, research impact and communication, and interdisciplinary and global research experiences underpin the new global framework, or Brisbane principles.
"As more universities around the world adopt these principles, we'll be more comfortable in having collaborative research degree programs with them," said Max King, Monash University's pro vice-chancellor (research and research training).
The principles were created and struck by the deans of graduate studies at universities including the University of California, Davis; China's Tsinghua and Shanghai Jiao Tong universities; Imperial College London; South Korea's Yonsei; the University of Hong Kong; the Australian National University; and the University Pierre and Marie Curie in France. They were all participants in a three-day summit on graduate education, run by the US-based Council of Graduate Schools and the Group of Eight.
Professor King said while there was widespread interest in measuring the quality and outcomes of undergraduate education, including in Australia, there had been very little focus on postgraduate degrees.
He said he hoped within five years, the Brisbane principles - the first attempt at a gold standard for postgraduate research quality - would underpin the Australian university audit processes.
"If they are any good, TEQSA [the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency] would know about them.
"It's then over to them about how they are brought to the attention of the universities they audit," Professor King said.
Interim TEQSA chairwoman Denise Bradley commended the group for developing the principles. "Without doubt they will, together with any further work from this group, contribute to TEQSA's deliberations about standards," she said.
The Brisbane principles were also supported by the Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies in Australia. James Cook University dean of postgraduate studies and DDOGS convener Helene Marsh said she strongly backed the possibility of TEQSA adopting the principles.
Source and full text of the article: The Australian
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