* Reminder: HERDSA Executive Elections
* Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) - Change of Editorial Team
* HERDSA News Summer 2017 is now available online
* Educational Designer positions at USC
* 2 Educational Designer Jobs at USQ
* Call for book chapters - Intercultural Studies in Higher Education
* Innovation in Performing Arts Education Symposium (Hong Kong, June 15,16,17, 2017)
* The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) seeks to appoint a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in Music (Education)
* Indonesian Studies: Call for Reviewers
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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Reminder: HERDSA Executive Elections

Nominations for the HERDSA Executive for 2017-2019 close on February 17th.
The full information is available on the HERDSA website at http://herdsa.org.au/news/call-nominations-herdsa-executive-2017-2019

Further information Allan Goody agoody56@gmail.com

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Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) - Change of Editorial Team.

In January this year, the editorial leadership of HERD changed hands. The new editorial team are: Executive Editors, Wendy Green, University of Tasmania, and Craig Whitsed, Murdoch University; Co-Editors, Amani Bell, University of Sydney, Bernadette Knewstubb and Stephen Marshall, Victoria University NZ, and Ly Tran, Deakin University. Deanne Gannaway, University of Queensland, is the Books Review Editor and the Special Issues Editor is Kelly Matthews, University of Queensland. 

The new team have taken over from Barbara Grant and her team of Mark Barrow, Frances Kelly, Catherine Manathunga, Tai Peseta and Bruce Macfarlane, who during their six years at the helm, made a significant intellectual contribution of the journal, to HERDSA and to the higher education sector at large. The new team are keen to continue their legacy.

For further information about the journal, see http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&jour...

The Executive Editors also welcome inquiries. Please contact Wendy Green w.j.green@utas.edu.au or Craig Whitsed c.whitsed@murdoch.edu.au

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HERDSA News Summer 2017 is now available online

The latest issue of HERDSA News features an article by Denise Chalmers on the need for a sector-initiated teaching standards framework. The issue includes news from and about the HERDSA community with regular columns including Who’s who, Branch happenings, HERDSA NZ and Ako Aotearoa, Fellows, and New scholars. Perspective writers keep us entertained and informed while Owen Hicks sends another Postcard from Vietnam. Three Reviews and two Showcase articles suggest ideas and resources. 

You can download HERDSA News 39/1 Summer 2017 free from the HERDSA web site at http://herdsa.org.au/publications/herdsa-news/herdsa-news-vol-39-no-1

Follow HERDSA NEWS on Twitter @herdsanews

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Educational Designer positions at USC
5 February

USC is seeking two Educational Designers to work with the Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching (C~SALT ) at the University of the Sunshine Coast. 

Further information see Work at USC, closing date 5 Feb or email Dr Ruth Greenaway on rgreenaw@usc.edu.au

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2 Educational Designer Jobs at USQ
10 February 2017

The Educational Designers will work collaboratively with academics in the provision of hands on support to design and develop courses that provide stimulating, engaging and effective learning experiences for students. They provide advice and support on educational design, formative and summative assessment, feedback strategies and the choice of media for facilitating student learning in all modes of delivery. The Educational Designer will have an advanced understanding of pedagogy and experience in the application of this knowledge to support the enhancement of teaching quality and to support students learning. This role will work as part of a team of Educational Designers, with each Designer supporting one of USQ’s five discipline areas. We are currently looking for Designers to work with the following two discipline areas: (i) Creative Arts, Society and Culture, and (ii) Management and Commerce, and Law.

Further information http://tinyurl.com/jqj74sg

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Call for book chapters - Intercultural Studies in Higher Education: Policy & Practice
10 February 2017

In the scenery of globalisation and internationalisation, the growth of higher education has been occurring in distinct cultural contexts: local, national, regional and global. In these contexts, policies and practices have common and specific aspects related to institutional models, management cultures, governance, and funding. The expansion of higher education presents impacts in the differentiation between types of institutions - of elite or mass, population attended and quality of the results. In addition, the role of the State, the participation of the market and the importance of the higher education for economic and social development grow in the discussion of the policies for this sector. Furthermore, international organizations and network of collaboration between countries has turned with the aim of defining common strategies for the same problems. In the national contexts, these issues receive specific understandings according to the local needs.

This book proposes to take the study of policies and practices of management in Higher Education, using comparisons between systems, institutions, programs, innovations, results or cultures, further by:
• using a single data collection instrument/methodology across
• different countries
• different continents
• on the same topic/issue.

The aim of this text is therefore concerned with assessing and arriving at an understanding of higher education at a multiple country/intercultural level - using the same methods of data collection and analysis for each country level analysis contained in each chapter. This type of assessment, we argue, can produce “Intercultural Studies in Higher Education”, which results from and leads to a deeper and a more holistic understanding of policies and practices in higher education (a) within a country (b) between & among countries and (c) between and among traditions and other specificities within and between countries.

This book welcomes contributions on such topics as:
• Relations between higher education and economic/social environment
• Expansion, democratization and quality
• Cultural diversity and higher education
• Inequalities and higher education
• Higher education between the global and the local
• Management of higher education systems and institutions
• Tensions among public- private
• Financing of higher education
• Science, technology and innovation
• Instruction and student attainment
• Curriculum innovation and development
• Study of graduates
• Etc (to be agreed with the editors)

Please communicate your interest by submitting an abstract of 300-400 words which provides a summary of your chapter. Abstracts should be submitted to ana_moreira@hotmail.com, jjpaul.gsu@gmail.com and nigel.bagnall@sydney.edu.au.

This book is part of the Palgrave Macmillan series on "Intercultural Studies in Education".

Notes:
(a) Contributions are welcomed from teams of researchers, practitioners and teams of practitioners.
(b)For a list of countries by continents, please visit: http://www.worldatlas.com/cntycont.htm

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Innovation in Performing Arts Education Symposium (Hong Kong, June 15,16,17, 2017)
Early Bird Registration date by March 17th, 2017 and Call for Proposals by March 17th, 2017

Registrations for the symposium are now open via the on line web site - http://www.hkapa.edu/ipae2017

The Innovation in Performing Arts Education Symposium (IPAE 2017) is a local and international forum for Educators, Performers, Researchers, and Policy-makers from the performing arts sector to 
explore, reflect, collaborate and learn from each other. This is not your usual Symposium with Keynote Speakers, Innovative Performances, a welcome reception, conference dinner, field trips and networking opportunities all in the exciting city of Hong Kong.

This symposium is an ideal opportunity for international, performers, innovators and educators to:
· Share innovative pedagogies and explore Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality for performing arts.
· Share exemplary practice in relation to performing arts Teaching and (e)Learning
· Explore innovative performance possibilities
· Celebrate and Showcase achievements to date in the area of Teaching and Learning Innovation
· Investigate new approaches and models for Teaching and Learning
· Explore the changing educational landscape both locally and internationally as impacted by technology in Performing Arts Education

We look forward to welcoming you to Hong Kong in June and further queries can be directed to ihub@hkapa.edu

Further information http://www.hkapa.edu/ipae2017

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The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) seeks to appoint a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in Music (Education)
31 March 2017

The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) seeks to appoint a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in Music (Educational Technologies, Online Learning) who will lead the development, promotion, coordination and teaching of online music subjects that inspire students to create, innovate and collaborate within a digital environment. The appointee will be expected to keep abreast of developments in technology-enhanced teaching, learning and assessment, and the online digital delivery of music programs, in order to deploy this knowledge in ways that are aligned with the strategic agenda of the School and its leadership position nationally and internationally.

You will have a Doctoral degree, expertise in educational and curriculum design of music subjects that incorporate the use of technology, expertise in coordinating, teaching and assessing online music related content, and ability to champion, implement and manage change and/or innovation and provide leadership in thinking strategically regarding the impact of emerging technologies for teaching music.

To apply for this position please visit http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au

Further information vcamcm-hr@unimelb.edu.au

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Indonesian Studies: Call for Reviewers

The International Journal of Indonesian Studies (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/indonesian-studies-journal/) [IJIS] is a fledgling, online, open access journal (listed with DOAJ) that rather urgently requires a core of committed cross-disciplinary academics to assist in the peer-review process of an exciting range of papers that await publication. The Journal was set up to promote innovative Indonesian scholarship and publication in English to further enhance the higher education sector in Indonesia and to promote Indonesian-Australian linkages in research especially. The Editors sincerely invite Australian academics to register as reviewers for IJIS. Please visit the Journal's website and gather a sense of the journal's mission. It's very much about promoting a transnational exchange in higher education between Indonesia and Australia.

Further information Yacinta.Kurniasih@monash.edu

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Higher Education in the Headlines

Colleges rush to step up | JOHN ROSS | Australian Higher Education | 01 Februay, 2017
Would-be higher education providers have sped up their bids for registration ahead of changes to the rules.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/colleges-rush-to-step-u...

A Lab of Her Own | Michael Anft | Chronicle of Higher Education | 27 January, 2017
How colleges are retaining female undergraduates in engineering and computer science.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Lab-of-Her-Own/238970

UK HE ‘should push for sector-specific’ Brexit deal | John Morgan | Times Higher Education | 25 January, 2017
UUK accused of failing to emulate sectors ‘from farming to finance’ in seeking special deal
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-he-should-push-sector-speci...