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The Australian Higher Education News 20 November

Coalition wants quota cake and to eat it, too
Quarter of students mark down unis
Fee-free TAFE promise hits major opposition
Stop micromanaging and using universities as a political football
Academics creating real change in communities

Latest edition available via Factiva

Times Higher Education headlines for 20 November

Times Higher Education (THE)
Provides higher education information resources relating to news, data (university rankings), opinion, features, reviews, digital editions & archive.

Policy Updates from apo.org.au

GenAI greatest hits for 20 November

AI Search Tools ranked (by Monash Health)
AI search tools can find articles through machine learning and large language models (LLMs).
However, they do not replace systematic, structured searching in scholarly databases.
Presented below are the top-rated tools evaluated by Monash Health librarians.
Harvard Publishing: Teaching with AI
Strategies for embracing ChatGPT and other large language models to boost student learning and help you teach more effectively.
OpenAI now has a guide to writing with ChatGPT
Stop Writing All Your AI Prompts from Scratch
These Reusable Templates Will Remember How You Like to Draft Lesson Plans, Write Quizzes, and More

HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Summer School 2025

The ARDC invites you to join us in person for the free 2025 HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (RDC) Summer School in Brisbane/Meanjin.

The Summer School aims to empower participants with practical knowledge, build digital skills, and help inspire new research outcomes within the humanities, arts, social sciences (HASS) and Indigenous fields of study. Participants will collaborate in an interactive group setting while networking with like-minded researchers and subject matter experts.

You are also invited to join us in person for the Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass at Summer School, held in Brisbane/Meanjin one day before the Summer School. It is aimed at a wider audience, all custodians of Indigenous data and researchers of all disciplines.

Also register for What to Expect at HASS and Indigenous Summer School 2025: A Webinar to hear from a previous attendee about their experience, and 2025 workshop presenters outlining what they will cover. Also read about the 2024 Summer School.

Read & Publish agreements: Caps hit for year

Caps on Wiley, Springer Nature and Taylor & Francis now exhausted.

These caps are now exhausted and any authors who have articles accepted from now until December 31^st 2024 will have to publish closed access and be sure to deposit their AAM into PURE/ePrints to ensure it has full text access. There will be no exceptions to this but the caps will be refreshed in 2025

Read and Publish (R&P) agreements at QUT

Alumni borrowing memberships - now 12 months

New alumni memberships will be for 12 months only (not 5 years). Alumni who borrow items can then request a renewal for another 12 months.

Alumni borrowers currently on 5 year memberships, will remain on 5 year memberships while the alumni remains an active borrower. Once the 5 years is completed, the membership can be renewed for 12 months on request.

Please contact library.buslaw@qut.edu.au with any questions.

QUT Library Research Skills Training and Events (November)

SAGE HDR Publications Prize 2024 Awards Ceremony - Registrations open!

Hacky Hour

Scholarly Communications Community of Practice - November topic: Pre-Submission: What do I do with my data?

QCIF Training - Data analysis, programming, statistics

SAGE HDR Publications Prize 2024 Awards Ceremony

Come celebrate the achievement of our HDRS and support your peers.

At this Awards ceremony, the winners of the cash prizes awarded to Higher Degree Research (HDR) students for outstanding research outputs that have been accepted for publication will be announced.

Criteria for judging were for communication to a domain-specific audience as well as to a broad audience, by abstracts and lay summaries to papers accepted for publication.

Prizes awarded are:

$400 for the top published paper by an Indigenous HDR student.
$400 for the top published paper in each of the five Faculties.
$100 for a commended paper in each faculty.

Register here for Wednesday, 27 November, 11am, in-person at Kelvin Grove library in the Curriculum collection, or online

Hacky Hour

A data skills meet-up with key support staff from around QUT, fellow research students, and practitioners to ask questions, get advice on a problem, share knowledge, chat and get help.

Experts are on hand to advise on problems related to coding, data analytics, digital tools, or open research.
Bring your questions on data wrangling, R, Python, Data management planning, data visualisation, data sharing, and web APIs.

Scholarly Communications Community of Practice

A short open forum for HDR students, researchers and research support advisers to listen, share, ask or discuss on key issues and topics in academic publishing and scholarly communications. Introduced by experts on the covered topics.

This month’s topic: Pre-submission: What do I do with my data?

QCIF Training

Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) provides a large suite of data science, data management, programming and statistical analysis related training. QUT is a member of QCIF so training is free.

Upcoming training sessions are:

Introduction to the Unix Shell - 25-26 November
Introduction to SPSS - 27 November

Impact of Social Sciences (LSE)

GenAI smash hits for 27 November

Harvard Publishing: When It Comes to Gen AI, Let Your Students Play
How Tuck’s Sprint-Based Approach to AI Encourages Students to Create, Problem Solve, and Have Fun