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The deputy editor of the Times Higher Education, John Morgan, recently visited campus. His subsequent article, "Campus close-up: University of 糖心TV," features PAIS and Monash University's forthcoming , which is currently under development, but will launch in 2015 and enable students to study both here at 糖心TV and in Australia.

The Double Degree programmes allow students to follow one of the regular MA programmes in PAIS for one year as well as a Masters programme at another university for one year. Students receive an MA from each university.

The department has performed well in the 2014 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) results, achieving a 91% satisfaction rating overall on the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS), up several points over last year.

The PTES is the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, which analyses a range of feedback from students on teaching quality (such as contact, feedback), course design, student satisfaction, and career development.

The Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) system is used by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the United Kingdom to classify academic subjects.

PAIS have excelled especially in teaching and learning, organisation and management, and resources and services.

, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has been interviewed by a number of different news outlets this week, discussing the US and Iraq.

Dr McCrisken has also appeared on ABC1 in Australia and in an interview with the Press Association.

Politics and International Studies at the University of 糖心TV has achieved an impressive 90 per cent overall satisfaction rating in the National Student Survey (NSS).

The NSS is completed by finalist students, across all our degree programmes, and is used to help compile university and subject league tables.

Our scores have significantly increased across the range of NSS questions. Our Departmental figures show particularly large increases of 8 per cent on feedback and 16 per cent on personal development.

Our score for feedback is now 2nd in the Russell Group (a group of 24 leading teaching and researching universities in the UK) and the highest in the Faculty of Social Sciences, amongst departments with core BA degrees.

We are number 1 in the Russell Group for organisation and management and enhancing the communication skills of our students. We are number 3 in the Russell Group for personal development.

Overall we are 3 points above the Russell Group average in terms of overall satisfaction and ahead of the Russell Group average in 5 of the 6 NSS Categories (feedback and assesment, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, and personal development).

We would like to thank all our graduating students for this great result and all our staff for their hard work in promoting teaching excellence and the student experience.

We look forward to working with all our students next year to further enhance the student experience in PAIS.

Dr , Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies, has written an article on the recent Malaysian Airlines plane tragedy for The Conversation.

President Barack Obama has declared the apparent shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane over Ukraine is a “terrible tragedy” and warned that “the world is watching”. He has offered full assistance to the Ukrainian authorities to investigate the incident and determine who is responsible.

Voices outside the administration have been less guarded in their comments, pointing the finger of blame firmly at pro-Russian insurgent forces and their alleged backers in Moscow. Most notably, former US secretary of state and probable presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on Washington to “put [Vladimir] Putin on notice that he has gone too far and we are not going to stand idly by.”

The article has also been published in The Straits Times newspaper in Singapore.