teach your children well

[extemporanea]

Brisbane was grey and rainy today, but still rather pleasant. The airport serves decent Earl Grey, and I'm sitting on a comfy chair waiting for the Melbourne flight, watching Qantas planes take off into a perfect rainbow, while fat tadpole raindrops chase each other down the window in shoals. What do airports coat their windows with? It makes water

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[schedule5]

What exactly is the purpose of the trip? Are you looking at admin-y stuff?

[xavierxalfonso]

The trip sounds like a brilliant opportunity. Australia seems to have learned from the Americans on the valuing teaching front, while Extemp's cherished institution must have cribbed from the Brits (teaching? Oh yes, those annoying things that get in the way of research). As to the formal purpose of the trip:

Joint
University delegation exploring
New
Knowledge for
Educational
Transfer

[extemporanea]

Hee. Definitely that sort of junket, and not a bad stab at the purpose ;>. Technically it's a benchmarking trip in the area of teaching and learning. We're interested in these institutions in terms of how they deal with the student experience, staff development and student throughput, plus anything else that seems interesting and relevant.