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Ammigan, Ravichandran; Jones, Elspeth – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2018
This article evaluates the degree to which international students are satisfied with different dimensions of their university experience, namely, their arrival, living, learning, and support service experiences. Using quantitative survey research methods based on data from the International Student Barometer (ISB), the study evaluates the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Students, Educational Experience, Meta Analysis
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Amorin-Woods, Lyndon; Gonzales, Hugo; Amorin-Woods, Deisy; Losco, Barrett; Skeffington, Petra – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (ATSI), it is expected that non-ATSI health-care professionals become culturally aware; however, participants' perceptions of the relative merit of cultural awareness training (CAT) formats is uncertain. Design/methodology/approach: The authors compared…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders
Mahboob, Ahmar; Jacobsen, Britt; Kemble, Melissa; Xu, Zichen Catherine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
This paper examines how language development aid is managed and distributed via grant programs administered by federal and state Aboriginal affairs departments across Australia. While these departments are not the only organisations offering grants for development and language-related projects in Australia, they are in a good position to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Native Language Instruction, Indigenous Populations
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Foss Lindblad, Rita; Lindblad, Sverker – Australian Educational Researcher, 2013
Current tendencies in educational research in Sweden are presented and compared to Australia. We here refer to; organization of research, research allocation, publication patterns, and assessments of research qualities. Different trajectories of educational research were identified, where Australian research was organized as a field of study,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Research Administration
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Song, Steve; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
This study investigates the relative roles of home and school variables in accounting for achievement gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students in Australia and New Zealand. Using data from the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] 2009, our findings show that achievement gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Indigenous Populations, Achievement Tests
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Hemmings, Brian Colin; Kay, Russell; Sharp, John; Taylor, Claire – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
Benchmarking within higher education is now relatively commonplace, as institutions increasingly compete directly with one another to improve the overall "quality" of what they do and attempt to establish and better their position among peers as measured against sector standards. The benchmarking of confidence among academic staff in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Benchmarking, Quality Assurance
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Altbach, Philip G. – Higher Education in Europe, 1984
The responses of higher education institutions in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the rest of Western Europe to declining enrollments, changing financial support, fiscal problems, and changes in the professoriate and academic careers are compared. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning, Comparative Analysis
Sanders, Douglas – American Indian Journal, 1980
Stressing the importance of comparing the experiences of indigeneous people throughout the world, this article reviews history of British aboriginal relations in New Zealand and Australia, thus shedding a new perspective on Indian affairs in North America. (Author/ DS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Federal Legislation, Government Role, Land Settlement
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Wagner, Alan – Higher Education Management, 1996
New methods of financing higher education used in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom are summarized and compared. The paper concludes that while these approaches are designed to improve efficiency, realize specific outcomes, and leverage additional funds from other sources, they may have unanticipated, unintended, and, in some…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
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Johnston, Ron; And Others – Australian Universities' Review, 1995
A study in England and Australia suggests that in science and engineering, where researchers within a research unit of any size re-form themselves into smaller groups (5-12), communication is efficient and productivity optimal, with little economy of scale for larger groups. In less tightly-organized disciplines such as mathematics and social…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Departments, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Brockman, J. R. – 1984
Based on material obtained and observations made in 1982, this Australian study focuses on the British Library's inter-library comparison (ILC) project for academic libraries. The report is presented in five sections, the first of which is a brief introduction. The second section deals with the general concept of inter-organization comparison as a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency
Piper, David Warren – Journal of Tertiary Education Administration, 1995
Four forms of funding universities (capitation, categorical, initiative, inventive) in Australia are examined for their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. The option of using these funding mechanisms for allocating resources within individual universities, based on performance, is explored. Finally, use of the four kinds of funding…
Descriptors: College Administration, Comparative Analysis, Competition, Educational Finance
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Bracey, Rhonda – Australian Library Journal, 1987
A secondary school librarian uses her experience to compare Canadian and Australian secondary school libraries in terms of educational philosophy, library role, staffing, budgets, resources, and library organization. (CLB)
Descriptors: Budgets, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Levacic, Rosalind; Downes, Peter – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
This study sets out to examine the relationship, if any, between the decentralization of funding for schools and the prevalence of corruption and fraud. It is based upon work carried out in four countries: Australia (the State of Victoria), the United Kingdom (specifically England), Poland (with particular reference to two cities) and Brazil…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Audits (Verification), Educational Finance, Deception
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Niklasson, Lars – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1996
The formal regulatory frameworks for higher education in four nations (Australia, Great Britain, Holland, and Sweden) who have recently enacted similar policies are described. Focus is on five areas: (1) higher education system design; (2) planning approaches; (3) funding; (4) outcomes assessment; and (5) government regulation of degrees,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning
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