Satellite events
Satellite events are not run by Universities Australia. For further information email the contact below.
Satellite Workshop: Crafting workable solutions to respond to the Disability Royal Commission
26 February 2024, 4-5pm
Torrens Room, National Convention Centre Canberra
The Disability Royal Commission has created opportunities and threats to university leadership. The 222 recommendations will result in reforms in 2024, is influencing the Universities Accord reform process and has already altered expectations on how university leadership will approach ability diversity. Leaders with a disability provide their perspectives on how students, staff and the disability community expect universities to respond, and will work with attendees in this 1-hour workshop to help explore workable solutions.
Contact p.harpur@law.uq.edu.au for more information.
Satellite Workshop: Book launch and signing of Changing Higher Education for Good
27 - 28 February 2024
Professor Martin Betts CEO of HEDx is launching a new book Changing Higher Education for Good on the OES stand in the Exhibition Hall, Tuesday 27 February, 1.15-2.15pm. Signed copies of the book are available either online or at the OES stand and details of the book are available here.
Satellite Workshop: Introducing the Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics
29 February 2024, 1pm-3pm
Free online workshop: https://utas.zoom.us/j/83708539436
Meeting ID: 837 0853 9436
Universities are crucial to national competitiveness and development. For over 30 years, under neoliberal policy in many countries, governments have implemented accountability mechanisms to make universities more efficient, accountable and responsive to the needs of society.
In reality, these mechanisms constrict universities to serving the needs of the economy and industry. Research increasingly shows counter-productive results arising due to a focus on measurable and entrepreneurial outcomes that preference technical and scientific disciplines; de-value of the broader social role of universities; and undermine the ethical and professional dimensions of Academia.
In this workshop we will consider the essential nature of academic role and the need for much more coherence in higher education policy based on clarity about the broad social role of universities and a deeper understanding of the role academics play in achieving the desired outcomes.
We will explore the need for accountability process for universities and Academia that serve this broad social purpose and enable academics to do their work in accordance with their role as teachers and/or researchers.
We introduce the Professional Ethical Framework for Australian Academics. The Framework can be found on the website of the Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP https://professoriate.org ). It is designed as a re-conceptualisation of Academia in this more accountable context that:
- re-asserts genuine academic leadership role in the managerial university;
- articulates the professional values that underpin academic work and make it trustworthy
- justifies their professional autonomy and academic freedom as fundamental to the critique and challenge aspects of their role; and
- helps define more appropriate accountabilities for academia.
We seek feedback on how The Framework might be improved and its suitability as a means of communicating to other stakeholders that the ethical underpinnings of academic work are crucial to its trustworthiness.
Contact John.Kenny@utas.edu.au for more information
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