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O'Donoghue, Tom; Chapman, Anne – History of Education, 2011
Up until the 1960s, Catholic schools throughout most of the English-speaking world were dominated by members of religious teaching orders, including female religious. For over a century following their establishment in 1866, one of the most prominent female religious teaching orders in Australia was that of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Catholic Schools, Books
Pont, Beatriz; Figueroa, Diana Toledo; Zapata, Juliana; Fraccola, Sylvain – OECD Publishing, 2013
This policy profile on education in Australia is part of the "Education Policy Outlook" series, which presents comparative analysis of education policies and reforms across OECD countries. Building on the OECD's substantial comparative and sectoral knowledge base, the series offers a comparative outlook on education policy by providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Equal Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The Standard for Vocational Education and Training (VET) financial data offers a nationally consistent standard for the collection, reporting and analysis of the public vocational education and training system information throughout Australia. It forms part of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Standards, Financial Policy
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Stephens, Maria; Warren, Laura K.; Harner, Ariana L. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
The "Comparative Indicators of Education" report series has been published on a biennial basis since it began in 2002, although this year's is the first to expand its focus to the G-20 countries, having previously been focused on the G-8 countries. "Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-20 Countries:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Indicators, Global Approach, International Assessment
Open Society Foundations, 2015
This paper and the four commissioned works on which it is based are guided by the important question: How can we start valuing practices and outcomes of teaching and learning that are difficult to reduce to numbers? As the process of developing indicators for the Post-2015 education targets unfolds, some of the targets are at risk of being dropped…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Preschool Education
Beddie, Francesca, Ed.; Curtin, Penelope, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The essays in this publication are intended to stimulate thinking about how the current appetite for vocational education and training (VET) reform can be harnessed to shape a bright future for vocational education. The editors approached six writers and commentators on VET to give their views on the future of VET. The editors asked Robin Ryan,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Fitchett, Paul G.; Russell, William Benedict – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
The New Social Studies movement was an effort by social scientists to reform US social studies/history curriculum at all levels during the 1960s and early 1970s. In the end, more than 50 different projects attempting to revitalise social studies were developed. Many of the projects focused on inquiry-based teaching practices and curriculum.…
Descriptors: Social Scientists, Social Studies, Units of Study, Anthropology
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Forbes-Mewett, Helen; Marginson, Simon; Nyland, Chris; Ramia, Gaby; Sawir, Erlenawati – Higher Education Policy, 2009
The omission of international students from the Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee (AVCC) 2007 national study on student finances is indicative of a pattern of exclusion. The exclusion is unacceptable from a humane perspective and feeds the belief that Australians perceive international students primarily as "cash cows". This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Universities
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Furtado, Michael – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
This paper seeks to explain why the policy history of school funding in regard to Australian Catholic Education looks and sounds the way it does today through the production of a genealogy of the subject. The questions addressed are, first, why has the funding of Catholic schools in Australia become an occluded historical site since the 1970s,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Catholic Schools, Catholics, Foreign Countries
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Davis, Glyn – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2008
Australian public universities are hybrid public-private institutions. Though established and regulated by government, they have always enjoyed substantial academic autonomy and for most of their history raised some of their revenue privately. Both these aspects have become more marked over the last twenty years, with increased regulation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Government School Relationship, Institutional Autonomy
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Walshe, Terry – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2008
Current implementation of Australia's Learning and Teaching Performance Fund rewards universities that demonstrate outstanding performance. This paper critically evaluates the capacity of the fund to "promote improvement" in learning and teaching. Analysis of past data describing institutional performance clearly shows that the rank…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Incentives, Universities
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Sutherland-Smith, Wendy; Saltmarsh, Sue – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Online education has a presence in most Australian universities, and its uptake has been broadly understood as being driven by external imperatives associated with intensive competition within the global knowledge economy. However, the implementation of online education does not take place uniformly, and tensions can arise as a consequence of the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Human Resources, Teacher Educators, Higher Education
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Clarke, Angela; Budge, Kylie – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2010
The current tertiary education climate in Australia and other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is one where class numbers are increasing and contact hours between students and teachers are reducing to keep them financially viable. In this context increasing pressure is being placed on teachers to essentially…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Small Classes, Educational Practices, Educational Finance
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Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Cropper, Porsha – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
While Canada is often described as the most and France as one of the least successful countries in the realm of immigrant incorporation, the question remains unresolved of how to evaluate a country's policies for dealing with immigration and incorporation relative to that of others. Our strategy is to examine the relationships among (1) countries'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants
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Rubin, Mark – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
In 2008, Denise Bradley and colleagues published their "Review of Australian Higher Education." A key point of the Bradley Review was to highlight the long-standing under-representation of working-class people at Australia's universities. Working-class people represent 25% of Australia's general population; however, they represent only…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Working Class, Social Life
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