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Courses get government tick of approval
27 June 2008
The New South Wales government has approved the largest block of courses submitted by Avondale College for accreditation.
The 11 courses include master's degrees in education, leadership and management and ministry, the Graduate Certificate and the Graduate Diploma in Leadership and Management, and bachelor degrees and double degrees in business and science. Each receives the maximum five-year approval from the Department of Education and Training.
A government-mandated change in format saw staff members at Avondale re-writing documentation, which added to the size of the task. "I'm proud of our staff," says vice-president (learning and teaching) Dr Malcolm Coulson. "They've approached this task with professionalism and dedication."
Avondale's teacher education degrees are awaiting accreditation. The New South Wales Institute of Teachers is currently reviewing the courses before submitting them to the Department of Education and Training.
In other research news:
PUBLICATIONS
Dr Robyn Pearce, a senior lecturer in home economics and design and technology, has co-authored an article with six others that appears in the March 2008 edition of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The article title is, "The relative impact of a vegetable-rich diet on key markers of health in a cohort of Australian adolescents."
Biology lecturer Dr Jason Morton (pictured) is also a published author. "Differences in feeding ecology among three co-occurring species of wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae) on rocky reefs of temperate Australia," written by Jason and two others, appears in the May 2008 edition of Marine Biology.
PAPERS
Dr John Watts, a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, and former student Clinton Jackson will present a paper at the Science Teachers Conference in Brisbane this month (July). The paper argues that "A stratified view of knowledge leads to a rich experiential learning sequence: implications of critical realism in the science classroom."
John and early childhood lecturer Elva Fitzgibbon are members of the Centre for Education, Research and Children on the Ourimbah campus of the University of Newcastle. The centre is producing a book of occasional papers-one is John's.
And deans Dr Keith Howson (Faculty of Business and Information Technology) and Wayne Miller (Faculty of Lifestyle Education and Visual Communication) will present papers at conferences later in the year.
APPOINTMENTS
The Australian Music Examinations Board has appointed music lecturer Cherie Watters-Cowan as an examiner. Vice-president (administration and research) Dr Vivienne Watts joins an Adventist Accreditation Association working party to revise accreditation guidelines for research degrees.
SCHOLARS WANTED
Contact Vivienne (vivienne.watts@avondale.edu.au, 4980 2120) to contribute to the scholarly activity at Avondale, as a conjoint staff member, postdoctoral fellow, research leader, sessional staff member or visiting scholar, or as a PhD student in education, theology, health or history.
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