Richard James (educational scientist)

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Richard James (born March 9, 1956 ) is an Australian education scientist and university professor. At the end of the 1970s he was also successful as a sprinter .

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Richard James put at Melbourne State College the Diploma of Education from and received at the University of Melbourne to the Bachelor of Science , the Master of Education and Doctor of Education.

He holds a Chair in Higher Education at the University of Melbourne and is the University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic). Since 2006 he has been Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne and since 2008 Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Administration.

In his sporting career he was sixth over 100 m at the Athletics World Cup in Montreal in 1979 and came with the Oceania team in seventh place in the 4 x 100 meter relay . In 1980 he became the Australian 100 m champion.

He has been a member of the Melbourne University Sports Board since 2014.

Sporting successes

(Personal bests)

  • 100 yards: 9.3 s, December 20, 1979, Melbourne
  • 100 m: 10.48 s, March 23, 1980, Sydney (hand-stopped: 10.2 s, November 10, 1973, Melbourne)
  • 200 m : 20.6 s, December 30, 1979, Sydney

Fonts

  • with Craig McInnis, Alison Morris: The Masters degree by coursework. Growth, diversity and quality assurance. Australian Government Public Service, Canberra 1995, ISBN 0-644-35684-7 .
  • with Kate Beattie: Expanding options. Delivery technologies and postgraduate course work. Australian Government Public Service, Canberra 1996, ISBN 0-644-45885-2 .
  • with Gabrielle Baldwin: Tutoring and demonstrating. A guide for the University of Melbourne. Center for the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne 1997, ISBN 0-7325-1067-8 .
  • with Gabrielle Baldwin: Eleven practices of effective postgraduate supervisors. Center for the Study of Higher Education, Parkville 1999, ISBN 0-7340-1622-0 .
  • Rural and isolated school students and their higher education choices. A re-examination of student location, socioeconomic background, and educational advantage and disadvantage. National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Higher Education Council, Canberra 1999, ISBN 0-642-23871-5 .
  • with Gabrielle Baldwin, Craig McInnis: Which university? The factors influencing the choices of prospective undergraduates. Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra 1999, ISBN 0-642-23914-2 .
  • The last boys of the Tanner Ball. Book Stop, Grantham around 1999, ISBN 0-94820427-3 .
  • with Craig McInnis, Robyn Hartley: Trends in the first year experience. In Australian universities. Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra 2000, ISBN 0-642-44864-7 .
  • (Ed.): Cornerstones of higher education. Papers presented at the 1999 HERDSA international conference at the University of Melbourne, July 12-15, 1999. HERDSA, Sydney 2000, ISBN 0-908557-46-9 .
  • TAFE, university or work? The early preferences and choices of students in years 10, 11 and 12. National Center for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook 2000, ISBN 0-87397-525-1 .
  • with Ka-ho Mok (Ed.): Globalization and Higher Education in East Asia. Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore 2005, ISBN 981210-402-X .
  • with Katrina Alford: Pathways and barriers. Indigenous schooling and vocational education and training participation in the Goulburn Valley region. National Center for Vocational Education Research, Adelaide 2007, ISBN 978-1-921170737 .
  • with Simon Marginson (Ed.): Education, science and public policy. Ideas for an education revolution. Melbourne University Press, Carlton 2008, ISBN 978-0-522-85608-8 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Professor Richard James ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to Chancellery (Academic & International) at the University of Melbourne @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / msl.unimelb.edu.au
  2. ↑ Prof. Richard James on sport.unimelb.edu.au
personal data
SURNAME James, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian education scientist, college professor and sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1956