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Cardak, Buly; Brett, Matt; Burt, Sally – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
Australia established a demand-driven funding model for government-subsidised undergraduate places at public universities between 2012 and 2017. This allowed public universities to expand subsidised undergraduate places over this period. However, private universities and colleges did not have access to demand-driven funding but nonetheless grew…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Molloy, Carly S.; Guo, Shuaijun; Goldfeld, Sharon – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected children's care and education worldwide. This article reports on patterns of participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC) across Australia as influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and national policies. Using ECEC data from Xplor -- a software platform used across Australian childcare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Malfroy, Janne; Willis, Karen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
The current focus on identifying criteria for academic teaching practice is influencing performance goals for teaching academics. This has produced a strong imperative to engage with the scholarship of teaching and learning; however, it is not always clear how teaching academics continue to build capacity to do this during their academic career.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
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Goldworthy, Jeffrey – Australian Universities' Review, 2008
Commonwealth funding formulae have caused Australian universities to become obsessed with maximising external research funding. Considerable pressure is applied to faculties, departments and scholars to apply for funding, and relative success in attracting it is given excessive weight in evaluating research performance. This may be productive in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Funding Formulas, Researchers
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Valadkhani, Abbas; Worthington, Andrew – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2006
This paper clusters and ranks the research performance of 36 Australian universities according to their research performance over the period of 1998-2002. Research performance is measured according to audited numbers of Ph.D. completions and publications, and research grants income (in accordance with rules established by the Department of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grants, Factor Analysis, Doctoral Degrees
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Stevens, Robin S.; McPherson, Gary E. – Psychology of Music, 2004
Music education research in Australia has grown almost exponentially over the past 25 years. Particularly in the area of doctoral research studies, there has been a substantial increase in the number of theses completed from two in 1977 to 72 in 2002. In addition, there have been increases in professional research undertaken by university…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Print, Murray; Hattie, John – Higher Education, 1997
A study tested a procedure to identify and weigh various indicators of college faculty research productivity, as one measure of program quality. Eighty-six faculty in 34 Australian schools of education were surveyed. Highly valued indicators of research productivity included refereed journal articles, peer reviewed books, and major competitive…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competition, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria