Parental education is not a good proxy for measuring socioeconomic status, writes Trevor Gale. The long-awaited move to a new way of measuring the socioeconomic status of higher education students is gathering pace. Submissions in response to DEEWR’s recent discussion ...

Managing the demands of work-integrated intense higher education, by Stephen Billett. A growing concern for many universities is meeting the increasing demand to locate, organise and sustain their students’ workplace experiences for programs with work-integrated learning components. As one senior ...

There is very little difference between old performance measures and the new ones, writes Marcia Devlin. Except in one very important area. And so, round two of the national “debate” about teaching quality is on. The federal government teaching indicators ...

Living and studying in Australia, PhD student Afroz Shah is angered by accusations of racism leveled by the Indian media. Australia is considered one of the safest places on the planet to live, and more so, a favorite educational destination ...

We need to denationalise, globalise and humanise the concept of international security, writes Simon Marginson. Death comes to all of us. But in a few special cases, a person’s death takes on a great significance because of its timing within ...

Differences among the Australian states and territories in school-to-work transition outcomes are dramatic, ranging from well above the OECD average to well below. And the differences found in a recent analysis of OECD and ABS data are considerably greater than ...

The great challenge posed by the government’s draft policy framework for higher education is to construct an architecture in which to resurrect the principle that universities build nations by cultivating fine minds, writes Jennifer Oriel. Just when the press had ...

Any new measure of SES needs to have the confidence of the sector and is fit for purpose, writes Trevor Gale. DEEWR is on the verge of releasing its discussion paper on how to measure socioeconomic status (SES) for higher ...

Next year, higher education reform will move more squarely into the implementation stage. There will adjustments to be made, says Peter Coaldrake. After two years we have a clear picture of the nature and intent of the Rudd government’s education ...

The 10 commandments of higher education? Heck no, it’s the ongoing imperatives in relation to the institutional research agenda going forward, writes Gavin Moodie. St Julia of Lalor wandered in the western suburban wilderness for 11 long years when she ...