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Misko, Josie – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Australia has had a long history of using migrants to fill skill gaps and labour shortages, and continues to target skilled foreign workers for permanent and temporary migration. The purpose of this report is to investigate the role of qualifications in the labour mobility of these foreign workers, especially as those who do not have employer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Workers, Skilled Workers, Occupational Mobility
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Robbins, Spring C. Cooper; Rawsthorne, Margot; Paxton, Karen; Hawke, Catherine; Skinner, S. Rachel; Steinbeck, Katharine – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
We sought to discover adolescents' thoughts about participation in longitudinal research and identify recruitment and retention strategies that were meaningful to them. We conducted seven focus groups with 10-15-year-olds in two large rural centers in New South Wales, Australia, and all focus groups were digitally recorded, transcribed, and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Recruitment
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Parkinson, Patrick N.; Oates, R. Kim; Jayakody, Amanda A. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2012
This article reports on a retrospective study of cases of child sexual abuse complaints made against clergy, other employed pastoral staff, and volunteers in the Anglican Church of Australia between 1990 and 2008. There were 191 allegations of sexual abuse made by 180 complainants against 135 individuals. Twenty-seven of those 135 had more than…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Prevention, Professional Personnel, Foreign Countries
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Bano, Zakia; Shakir, Aleem – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The university prospectus is supposed to be a forceful and pioneering text in promoting and marketing higher education. The present research will deal with the disparities in the frequencies of first and second person pronouns in online prospectuses in cross-cultural linguistics from marketing point of view. The research question is to which…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Student Recruitment, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement
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Lynch, Timothy – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to advocate the resource package for producing quality graduates to work in rural, regional and remote Australia (TERRR Network), using a global perspective. This paper argues that the resource package achieves more than the objectives of the original project; "Developing Strategies at the Pre-service Level to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Rural Education, Global Approach
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Howlett, Catherine; Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Seini, Monica; Matthews, Christopher – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2013
This article presents a discussion on a study undertaken by academics within the Griffith School of Environment, Brisbane, Australia that sought to explore the potential of an Indigenised curriculum to attract and retain Indigenous students, and thereby facilitate greater participation of Indigenous students in science. The article highlights the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Curriculum
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Helmer, Janet; Harper, Helen; Lea, Tess; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Chalkiti, Kalotina – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
This paper explores the challenges of conducting systematic research, using our experiences of conducting a study to evaluate the effectiveness of ABRACADABRA, an online tool for early childhood literacy instruction as the contextual framework. By discussing how the research team resolved such perennial issues as high teacher turnover, low or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Computer Software, Literacy
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Gobby, Brad – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
The launch of the Independent Public Schools (IPS) programme in Western Australia (WA) in 2010 reflects the neoliberal policy discourse of decentralisation and school self-management sweeping across many of the world's education systems. IPS provides WA state school principals with decision-making authority in a range of areas, including the…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Governance
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Harrington, Ingrid – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Teacher preparation and preparedness have been the focus of much research connecting quality teaching and learning, retention, and teacher satisfaction (Halsey, 2005; Hayes, Mills, Christie, & Lingard, 2006; MCEETYA, 2006). The successful recruitment and retention of teachers to rural and remote schools Australia-wide has been problematic for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Scholarships, Teacher Recruitment
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Forsyth, Hannah – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2015
The history of universities in the twentieth century is, at least from the perspective of growth, a massive success. Australian higher education is no exception. Prior to the Second World War, Australia had six universities and approximately 10,500 students. Now there are in excess of one million students attending 39 institutions. In each phase…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Development, Educational Trends
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Drew, Christopher – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
Australia's neoliberal education agenda drives a competitive market climate where schools compete for potential clientele. In this climate, school impression management and self-promotion has become an important factor in maintaining a financially viable school. Schools produce image management texts including school prospectuses, newspapers…
Descriptors: Marketing, Selective Admission, Web Sites, Neoliberalism
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Hopkins, John L. – Australian Universities' Review, 2013
In a recent study, the issue of transnational academic mobility of academic staff, considering moves to higher education institutions in Australia, was examined using a web-based portal that attracted interested parties from around the world with information about Australian academic career opportunities. Web analytics were used as the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Faculty Mobility, College Faculty
Cattle, Stephen R.; Bloomfield, Dianne M.; Klineberg, Iven J. – Metropolitan Universities, 2013
The University of Sydney has a long-standing record of commitment to social inclusion in tertiary education. The Australian government agenda has brought into sharp focus the importance of universities engaging with rural and remote communities. The University of Sydney provides placement opportunities and pathways to attract more undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness
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Ross, Mitchell; Grace, Debra; Shao, Wei – Educational Review, 2013
This paper investigates higher education (HE) student recruitment practices from the standpoint of market orientation. By adopting the well-established market orientation framework of Narver and Slater [1990, The effect of a market orientation on a business profitability. "Journal of Marketing" 54, no. 4: 20-35], we examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Online Surveys
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Skelton, Christine – Educational Review, 2012
This review discusses and critiques the literature on men teachers and "feminised" primary schools from a feminist poststructuralist position. It is aimed at an audience new to the topic. The focus on "men primary teachers" as a field of research flourished as a consequence of concerns over boys' underachievement when an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Elementary School Teachers, Disproportionate Representation
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