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Biggs, John S. G.; Marchesi, August – Journal of Research Administration, 2013
The principal ethics committee in Australia's Capital, Canberra, underwent a major revision in the last three years based on changes debated in the literature. Committee or Board structure varies widely; regulations determining minimum size and membership differ between countries. Issues such as the effectiveness of committee management,…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Review (Reexamination), Organizational Change, Change Strategies
Fleming, Simon; Apps, Nathan; Harbon, Paul; Baldock, Clive – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Efficient use of resources, including space, is critical in academic departments. Traditional space auditing simply assesses occupancy levels. We present a novel approach which assesses not just the extent to which space is used, but also how well it is used. We link space use quantitatively to key performance indicators in a research-intensive…
Descriptors: Evidence, Audits (Verification), Criteria, Space Utilization
Kenny, John; Fluck, Andrew; Jetson, Tim – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
This paper presents a detailed case study of the development and implementation of a quantifiable academic workload model in the education faculty of an Australian university. Flowing from the enterprise bargaining process, the Academic Staff Agreement required the implementation of a workload allocation model for academics that was quantifiable…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Models
Bowyer, Kyle – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Student workload is a contributing factor to students deciding to withdraw from their study before completion of the course, at significant cost to students, institutions and society. The aim of this paper is to create a basic workload model for a group of undergraduate students studying business law units at Curtin University in Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Undergraduate Students, Business Education
Mukerjee, Sheila – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
This paper presents a practitioner's view on student system implementations in the Australian university sector. A student information system is a core system of any university and integral to its operations and services to students. These systems are constantly on the list of major projects and at any point in time, a university is either…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Systems, Program Implementation, Change Strategies
Wildy, Helen; Pepper, Coral; Guanzhong, Luo – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report innovative research aimed at ascertaining whether standards for school leaders could be applied to the process of selecting senior secondary school principals for appointment. Specifically, psychometrically robust measures of performance are sought that would sufficiently differentiate performance to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Principals, Personnel Selection
Griffiths, Margaret F.; Baxter, Stacey M.; Townley-Jones, Maureen E. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2011
The valuable social and economic contribution of financial counselors receives little public attention, as discourse related to consumer credit and debt invariably focuses on the impacts of consumer defaults for consumers and the broader community. Policy makers and organizations sustaining the work of financial counselors must ensure they care…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Job Satisfaction, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries
Bretherton, Tanya – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The early childhood education and care industry in Australia is undergoing a shift in philosophy. Changes in policy are driving the industry towards a combined early childhood education and care focus, away from one on child care only. This move has implications for the skilling of the child care workforce. This research overview describes the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Child Care
Langford, Peter H. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
The purpose of the current study was to benchmark a broad range of work practices and outcomes in Australian universities against other industries. Past research suggests occupational stress experienced by academic staff is worse than experienced by employees in other industries. However, no other practices or outcomes can be compared confidently.…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Benchmarking, Performance Technology, Foreign Countries
Wood, Leigh N.; Vu, Tori; Bower, Matt; Brown, Natalie; Skalicky, Jane; Donovan, Diane; Loch, Birgit; Joshi, Nalini; Bloom, Walter – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
Due to the changing nature of learning and teaching in universities, there is a growing need for professional development for lecturers and tutors teaching in disciplines in the mathematical sciences. Mathematics teaching staff receive some training in learning and teaching but many of the courses running at university level are not tailored to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2011
Currently, the decline in teacher numbers has become an important topic for discussion in the field of teachers' work in Australia. The purpose of this article is to discuss current initiatives being implemented by both the Australian federal government and the South Australian state government to retain and attract prospective teachers and some…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Chowdhury, Gobinda G. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2009
Universities in Australia, like their counterparts abroad, are making available several different kinds of electronic information services for their student communities. University students need different types of information for the frequently entwined purposes of learning and living, and such information may be available from a variety of…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Information Services
Ireland, Jennifer; Correia, Helen Mary; Griffin, Tim Mark – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce and describe the features of a new e-learning quality framework developed for a large multi-campus university. The framework is explicitly designed to improve the quality of e-learning sites and the quality of online student learning, by developing the skills of the academics who design the sites.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, Performance Technology, Educational Improvement
Mackenzie, Noella – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
The literature suggests that teacher morale is at an all time low in Australia (Hicks 2003, Smyth 2001) with teachers feeling undervalued, frustrated, unappreciated and demoralized (Smyth 2001; Senate Employment, Education and Training References Committee (SEETRC) 1998). In this paper the author utilizes the data gathered in a recent study into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Morale, Excellence in Education, Job Satisfaction
Schoch, Herbert P.; Teoh, Hai Yap; Kropman, Margaret – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Students are becoming accustomed to using the Internet as an information source that supplements or replaces the normal institutional and classroom handout. However, the use of full electronic books through the Internet or CD instead of a printed full text book is a uniquely different experience, not only for these students but also for academics…
Descriptors: Accounting, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Learning, Use Studies
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