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ItemNo Preview AvailableA Framework for Differentiation(Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2017)This chapter is built on the basic premise that if Australia wants a truly differentiated tertiary education system it needs to move from formula driven policies that provide identical incentives to all institutions to tailored performance contracts that play to the strengths of individual institutions and build strengths in the national interest. From a political perspective, the most contentious part of this premise is the argument that we need an independent co-ordinating authority. The purpose of the authority would be to develop a national strategy for the system and implement this by monitoring the performance of institutions on the basis of individual institutional performance contracts established with the input of relevant stakeholders. This approach has been advocated by a number of experts in and around the university system since the demise of Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (CTEC) in the 1980s and has been consistently rejected by both sides of politics. This chapter offers a rationale for such a strategy based on an analysis of international trends and issues impacting tertiary education and an assessment of the current strengths and weaknesses of the Australian system. This is followed by a brief inventory of what Australia needs as a minimum from its tertiary education system and a proposed set of policy elements that will lay the foundations for the creation of a truly diverse system with the potential for effectiveness, efficiency and greater value to Australia. This chapter provides a set of interrelated propositions that aims to stimulate debate about the nature of a tertiary education system befitting the country.
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ItemFactors associated with job satisfaction amongst australian university academics and future workforce implications(Springer Netherlands, 2013-01-01)© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013. Australian academics appear to be fairly critical when it comes to their valuing of the attractiveness of the academic profession. On the set of indicators constructed for this volume, Australians, together with their British colleagues, score the lowest. This chapter provides some possible explanations for this, drawing on the policy reforms that have confronted the sector over the last two decades. It also highlights a particular feature of the current profession that so far has not received much attention internationally, namely, its substantive use of casuals in both teaching and research. Combining these issues and trends with the imminent retirement of large groups of senior academics, this chapter concludes with a series of strategies that could be implemented to increase the attractiveness of the profession.
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ItemAustralian Academics, Teaching and Research: History, Vexed Issues and Potential Changes(Springer, 2014)The traditional expectation that academics in Australian universities divide their time roughly equally between teaching and research has become challenged. Australian universities have increased their use of specialised teaching-only and research-only positions, while academics in combined teaching and research positions include academics with only limited engagement in teaching or research. We examine the extent of the changes in academic work by presenting a historical account for the roles of teaching and research in Australian universities over the past 150 years, and more recent policy initiatives influencing the relative balance between teaching and research. Based on the CAP data, we argue that the relative engagement in teaching and research partly reflects individual interest and institutional emphasis on these activities.
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ItemAustralia(Springer Netherlands, 2003)
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ItemThe Demise of Public Good in the Neo-liberal Coordination of Higher Education: the Case of Australia(Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2005)
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ItemGood governance and Australian higher education: An analysis of a neo-liberal decade(Routledge, 2009-02-05)
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ItemThe Governance of Public Universities in Australia: Trends and Contemporary Issues(University of Toronto Press, 2005-01-31)
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ItemSelection for Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region(Springer Netherlands, 2003)