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Catherine Thiele; Susan Simon; Joanne Casey; Shelley Dole; Linda Eager – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2024
Set within the broader employment crisis facing Australian schools, attracting preservice teachers to teach in a regional, rural, and remote (RRR) school community has been a long-standing educational priority. Research has identified the role of placement initiatives, the benefits of preparing preservice teachers for RRR contexts, and the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Schools, Geographic Isolation, Foreign Countries
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A. Ian Glendon – Australian Universities' Review, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian government's response, and longer-term influences within Australia's higher education sector, provided the background and rationale for this study in an Australian public university. From a context of how Antipodean University (AU) dealt with the revenue crisis, this paper describes how a sample of staff were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Colleges
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Kelly K. Miller; Trina Jorre de St Jorre – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
To advance the employability agenda in higher education, we need new ideas for embedding career skills into university curricula and novel tools for articulating the capabilities of learners. Situated in the discipline of environmental science, the aim of this study was to examine employer perceptions of the skills needed for a career in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Microcredentials, Higher Education, Education Work Relationship
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Sebastian Smith; Karine Dupre; Julie Crough – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study explores practitioners' perspectives on the perceived gap between university and practice beyond the hard and soft skill paradigm. Utilising Tomlinson's graduate capital model of employability (2017), we explored human, social, cultural, and psychological capitals to enrich the understanding of this issue and employability. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Employer Attitudes, School Business Relationship
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Nashid Nigar; Alex Kostogriz; Laura Gurney; Mahtab Janfada – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
This article investigates how non-native English-speaking teachers' (NNESTs) professional identities can be affected by their employment experiences in Australia. Hermeneutic phenomenological narrative analyses of the written narratives of lived experiences of a group of NNESTs demonstrate how their professional identities were negatively affected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, English (Second Language), Native Speakers
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Perry L. Glanzer – Christian Higher Education, 2024
Historically, Australian higher education has been statist, uniform, and secular. Indeed, up until 1989, even communist Poland had more Christian universities than Australia. Only in the last 3½ decades have eight different Christian universities and colleges emerged. This article first explores the origins of these new institutions and the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Higher Education, Decision Making