A lot of people are upset at the government's decision to close the Australian Learning & Teaching Council but David T. Jones comes out in support. He writes, "I'm not convinced that ALTC had, or could of hope to have, a significant impact on the higher education sector within Australia." The very fact that the ALTC is "the champion of teaching and learning in the higher education sector" illustrates, he argues, the disconnect. Universities should be the champions, but they have other priorities these days, making money being not the least of them. And this means "the efforts of an external body like ALTC are always going to be limited" because there's "a chasm which inherently limits the ability to spread the ideas generated by the interested folk to the uninterested folk."
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