ANU number one in Australia in latest rankings

Not to mention that the management there spent 10 years telling us all how bad it was and that if we didn’t pick up our game the ratings would fall. How could they be so wrong???

Some one needs to tell my kids about this. They never cease to whinge about how much it sucks.
Oh, hang on, that’s the ratings for research. How about the ratings on student satisfaction, value for money, employability after graduating, student services or quality of education provided?

There you go kids, I bet you never realised your old man was such a rebel hey?

Finally, how can a university which has the police commissioner of Gotham City in charge ever hope to be taken seriously? http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080321214520/batman/images/c/ca/Batman_photos_oldman.jpg

Masquara said :

University of Canberra? They must be in there somewhere … surely …. I got down to 650 without finding UC.

Ironic that their radio ads are making the unapologetically boastful claim of being Australia’s leading University… though their website and anything in print still retains the slogan “Australia’s capital University.”

I dunno. It may be a case of “things were better in the rosy glow of the good old days before I entered the Autumn of my life yadder yadder”, but in the area of undergraduate teaching I thought the ANU was “better”, in the sense of having higher academic standards and degrees being harder to obtain, when I went through there.

It’s ironic, because I think that pedagogical techniques at the ANU are much better than they once were. Most of my lecturers had not the faintest idea about how to present a coherent hour of instruction, simply because they’d never been taught how to teach. The one guy who took a summer course on lecturing techniques improved out of sight. Anyway, in my experience we now have much higher quality teaching of undergraduates, but at the same time, the commercial pressure to graduate people (or some other reason) seems to have resulted in an overall lowering of standards. In my direct experience, this has resulted in degrees being awarded to people who don’t appear to know very much about the basics of the subjects that they have studied. My impression is that these folks would not have made it through the academic filters that I went through.

At the end of the day though, when all cliches have been avoided like the plague, much of it depends on the qualities of each individual student. I work with a number of ANU graduates, and they are all great people with superb skills.

University of Canberra? They must be in there somewhere … surely …. I got down to 650 without finding UC. That’s well below august institutions in Argentina and Mexico. Mwa ha ha.

Anyone else have better luck finding CCAE in there?