The service is aimed primarily at members of the Australian higher education community as the newsletter promotes and highlights Australia's higher education. This does not preclude international content, but the selection of international content will be governed by its relevance to the Australian environment.
To subscribe, send a blank, plain text email to join-highered_update@edna.edu.au. Send your contributions to news-editor@edna.edu.au.
Categories
Content for the newsletter is selected for the following categories:
- Conference planning
- Media news
- Movers and shakers
- Opportunities
- Teaching and learning
- Research and innovation
- Standards world
Not all categories will be used each week and other categories will be added from time to time in line with demand.
Methodology
The Higher Education Update provides summaries and highlights aspects of materials likely to be of interest to subscribers. This is to include key dates, action possible (in the case, for example, of a submission call) and further sources.
- News items will be filtered from a range of online sources.
- Non-commercial services will be used where possible.
- Wherever possible, the item will be sourced to the originating institution or press release.
- Wherever possible, single media sources will not be used continuously.
- Contributions from the higher education community that conform to the criteria below are encouraged.
- The format of each item is: title and a brief paragraph, with a link to the URL of the full text of the material, or contact details for further information.
Criteria
Materials for the newsletter are:
- Freely available;
- Current - no items will be more than one month old (content that is of ongoing national benefit or interest may be included at any time);
- Sourced from reliable organisations or services;
- Relate to relevant issues in the higher education community;
- Likely to impact on Australia's higher education;
- Maybe of use to Australian higher education community;
- Likely to be of interest to a range of readers from the higher education community;
- Give subscribers an overview of higher education globally;
- Assist subscribers in keeping up to date;
- Present national rather than a local perspective for subscribers;
- Add value to the higher education professions;
- Over time present a range of places and perspectives;
- If possible sourced beyond one media outlet;
- Priority to extended, thoughtful contribution to debates;
- Electronically accessible - priority to published articles or comment available online;
- Noncommercial (unless permission has been received from the Business Manager, or in his/her absence, the General Manager, or CEO, education.au.)
This service welcomes comment on its selection policy and contributions from bona fide members of the higher education community in Australia and overseas.
