Dr Sancia West5 5University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Online learning has revolutionised the way in which higher education can be delivered and maximised the opportunities for involvement by student cohorts previously unlikely or unable to engage in higher education. Current...
- October 3, 2018
Ms Melissa Jardine4 4Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia Assumptions that police typically eschew tertiary education are based on studies in the global North or Western countries. In Southeast and...
- October 3, 2018
Dr Isa Bartkowiak-théron1 1Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, UTAS, Hobart, Australia The early critics of police education agree on one topic: in its first inception, police university education was too theoretical or ‘bookish’, and was very disconnected from the...
- October 3, 2018
Prof Roberta Julian3 3Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, UTAS, Hobart, Australia There is an important gap in knowledge about police education at a time when involvement in the tertiary education sector is becoming more commonplace in Australian jurisdictions. This...
- October 3, 2018
Prof Jenny Fleming2 2University of Southampton, Southampton, UK By 2020, to prepare new recruits for the role of constable there will be three ways for external applicants to join the UK Police Force – through an apprenticeship in professional policing...
- October 3, 2018