Seventh Annual IAFIE Conference

Australia and Intelligence Education

Becky MitchellCentre for Policing,

Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT)

Macquarie University, Sydney

55% Cheesehead, 45% Aussie

Centre for Policing, Intelligence

and Counter Terrorism (PICT)Sydney, Australia

•Began in 2005•First classes offered in Semester 2, 2006

Australian context

• Playing field smaller, but many similar strategic goals

• National Security Statement of Dec 2008 changed intelligence education approach

Australian Qualifications FrameworkFocuses on:

• academic standards

• learning outcomes/graduate capabilities

• quality of “teaching and learning”

Challenges

• Intelligence education lacks a common core curriculum

• Staying relevant in rapidly evolving threat environment

Challenges

• Publish or perish

• Professional experience vs. academic credentials of staff

Trend – Blended Learning

Trend – Blended Learning

• significant advantage of a blended program is the ability to cater for students’ individual needs

• caters for professionals, full time workers (military deployments, etc) and other adult students

Trend - Globablization of Learning

Trend – Outreach

• Council for Asian Transnational Threat Research (CATR)

• International liaisons

Trend/Concern

• Plagiarism

• Blurred concept of “authorship”