Dr Neil Peach

  Aesthetics - A way for encountering the world informed by Bernard Stiegler’s Technics and Time 4 Author: Neil Peach   Aesthetics - Why? This note on aesthetics, cum artistic judgement, cum artistic critique, cum sensibility, follows a long arc in my interest.  I will explain my arc further but before doing that, it is important to explain why I would expend so much interest on such an ‘esoteric’ issue at a time of so many more worthy/imminent issues arising in our world. It is simple, for me at least, and that is - I believe that the core of aesthetics goes to the very issue of how the human race may or may not deal with the issues confronting it in regard to politics, climate, war, technology, work and so on. Therefore I connect [that area of human study and philosophy called several things including] aesthetics with informing us, as human beings, on how we are best enabled to deal with our very survival.  I conflate contemporary aesthetics with all manner of ar...

  How well is the AQF working for students in the workforce? NEIL W. PEACH   Work Based Learning Programs, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia   And MALCOLM G. CATHCART   Institute of Work Based Learning, Middlesex University, Perth, Australia And SHAYNE D. BAKER   OAM Workplace Training Advisor: Training and Education Institute of Australasia, Charters Towers, Australia Higher education is a significant part of the Australian economy. In 2011, universities had revenue of $23.8 billion (Norton 2013, p. 38). Australian universities have clearly developed the capacity to respond, in broad terms, to the challenges confronting a knowledge based, ‘hourglass’ shaped labour market; however,  existing approaches whilst not broken are coming under pressure.   This research has been prompted by the authors in the course of undertaking a project that is designed to expand the implementation of work based learning in Australia. Work based learn...