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Chris Percy; Tristram Hooley – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Return on investment (ROI) has become part of the policymaking toolkit, particularly pertinent for activities like school-based career guidance deemed optional by some policymakers. There are institutions supporting ideal ROI methods alongside an academic critique, but little research on how ROI has been applied in practice in a guidance setting.…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Outcomes of Education
Boeskens, Luka; Nusche, Deborah; Yurita, Makito – OECD Publishing, 2020
While teachers' initial education is key to ensuring that new teachers are prepared for their work, it is only one piece in the continuum of teachers' professional growth. Continuing professional learning is vital for teachers to broaden and deepen their knowledge, keep up with new research, tools and practices and respond to their students'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Professional Continuing Education, Educational Practices, Policy Formation
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Fraser, Kym; Ling, Peter – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
University provision for academic development is well established in the USA, UK and many other countries. However, arrangements for its provision and staffing vary. In Australia, there has been a trend towards professional rather than academic staff appointments. Is this appropriate? In this paper, the domains of academic development work are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Evaluation
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
Universities have much to contribute to the improvement of health delivery, research, and teaching/learning. In progressing health reform, the Government should be mindful of the need to: (1) strengthen high quality medical research; (2) promote translation of research to teaching, population health and health services; and (3) address Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Stakeholders, Educational Change
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2010
The demand for workers (employers, self-employed people and employees) having research training extends beyond the researcher workforce itself and is increasing. The research workforce is not uniform but segmented according to disciplines and the economic and sectoral contexts in which researchers work. The growth of cross-disciplinary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Block Grants, Research, International Cooperation
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Nichols, Sue; Jurvansuu, Sari – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
There is currently movement internationally towards the integration of services for young children and their families, incorporating childcare, education, health and family support. Shifting service provision towards partnership between services, and between these services and families, has been the subject of policy formation at various levels.…
Descriptors: Human Services, Policy Formation, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs
Lo Bianco, Joseph – 1993
A discussion of language policy in Australia chronicles the history and context of policy formation and looks at the role of the National Languages and Literacy Institute. The paper first examines the phases and processes of both explicit and unofficial policy-making on language issues in Australia, highlighting the role that language…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
McNamara, Kathleen – 1995
This publication outlines the process for developing policies for Australian child care and education programs--policies that are not only relevant and useful but that also reflect the parents' wishes and the programs' philosophies. Based upon principles of the Quality Improvement and Accreditation System (QIAS), this document highlights the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
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Beresford, Quentin – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
Australian governments at both federal and state levels have collaborated for the past 15 years to lift Indigenous students from their position as the nation's most educationally disadvantaged group. The introduction in 1989 of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Plan was accompanied by an ambitious target of achieving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Indigenous Populations, Equal Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Wilson, David N. – 1993
This combination report/guide summarizes practical "how-to" information on the development and operation of national training boards that was gathered in a series of case studies of the effectiveness of national training boards in Canada, Singapore, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and in studies of training boards in Australia, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Case Studies
Lamb, Stephen; Davies, Merryn; Polesel, John; Teese, Richard – 2003
This report examines issues related to the performance indicators used for international comparisons of Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system. Chapter 2 examines main sources of international comparisons of VET and main features of indicator frameworks used for comparisons. Chapter 3 presents an outline of these two main…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Cornford, Ian – 1994
This paper examines and critiques the Australian Federal Government's efforts to put pressure on universities to increase the links between business and universities and to adopt more business practices. Examination of the 1992 and 1993 World Competitiveness Reports reveal ratings which cast serious doubt about the effectiveness of Australian…
Descriptors: Business Administration, College Role, Competition, Conflict of Interest
McIntyre, John; Freeland, John; Melville, Bernice; Schwenke, Cristina – 1999
The effectiveness of initial vocational education and training (VET) and support services in preparing early school leavers in Australia to negotiate an effective transition from school to adult roles was examined in a study that focused on two areas of the Central Coast of New South Wales. The following three data collection activities were used:…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts
Smith, Erica; Harris, Roger – 2000
The literature on work placements in education and training courses and current Australian practice related to work placements was reviewed. The review focused on the school, university, and vocational education and training (VET) sectors. The following major issues were considered: lack of a common name and common body of literature; purposes of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Definitions, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 2002
This document contains the first two volumes of a three-volume annual national report on Australia's vocational education and training (VET) system. Volume 1, which constitutes approximately 30% of the document, details progress in achieving the following national priorities: (1) a quality national training system that provides value for money…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Annual Reports, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)