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Queensland Board of Teacher Education, Toowong (Australia). – 1987
During 1985 and 1986, the Queensland Board of Teacher Education undertook a major review of teacher education and certification in Queensland. The report analyzes the social and educational trends emerging in Australia and formulates a view of the desirable roles and competencies of teachers in the future. Full recognition of teaching as a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Neill, Jane; Taylor, Kerry – Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2002
Two urban Australian nursing students' stories of their experiences in clinical placements in rural and Aboriginal communities indicate their interest in and enthusiasm for returning to rural nursing after graduation. Unfortunately, many urban students are disadvantaged financially by the added expense of their rural clinical rotation. Assisting…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Clinical Experience, Cross Cultural Training, Educational Needs
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McInnis, Craig – Australian Universities' Review, 1992
Effects of recent changes in Australian higher education on everyday academic work are examined, including changed emphases in teaching, research, administration, and public service and new demands associated with allocation of time, self-regulation, fragmentation of work into more discrete tasks, greater uniformity of effort, recruitment…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Faculty Recruitment
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Lyons, Michael; Quinn, Andrea; Sumsion, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2005
This paper reports the attitudes of parents, staff and teacher education students towards the employment of men in the children's services "industry". The attitudinal survey questions were grouped around four distinct issues: gender roles, labour market behaviour, workplace behaviour and policy. Surprisingly, all three stakeholder groups…
Descriptors: Role Models, Student Attitudes, Labor Market, Recruitment
Hoyal, Digby – 1994
This paper addresses the shortage of physicians providing medical services to rural communities in Queensland, Australia. Queensland is the fastest growing Australian state, but it has the lowest ratio of total doctors to population. Data indicate there may be twice as many patients per rural doctor compared with the city, which represents a…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Work Relationship
McIntyre, John – 2000
Indexes of socioeconomic status (SES) are widely used in school and higher education because of the known relationship of low educational participation and achievement by socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Because an index of SES can predict which areas and social groups need to be "targeted" to improve educational participation,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
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Yarrow, Allan; Herschell, Paul; Millwater, Jan – Education in Rural Australia, 1999
Examines the need for better preparation of teachers to live and work in rural Australia. Uses responses from a rural Queensland community meeting to discuss preparation needs related to multiage classrooms, cultural differences, and school-community involvement. Describes a new internship/mentor program at Queensland University of Technology that…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Needs, Cultural Differences, Educational Needs
Queensland Dept. of Education, Brisbane (Australia). – 1992
The purpose of the workshop conference reported in this publication was to provide: recommendations on developments in preservice teacher education and professional development for teachers of languages other than English (LOTE), advice to the Board of Teacher Registration and universities on issues related to the preparation and registration of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Kogan, Maurice; And Others – 1994
This volume uses recent research in the United States, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom and other nations to articulate the issues of faculty recruitment, training, rewards and employment in higher education. Chapter 1 looks at staffing as a policy issue. Chapter 2 explores how the academic profession is changing and touches on access to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Demography, Employment, Employment Level
Shah, Chandra; Cooney, Richard; Long, Michael; Burke, Gerald – Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 2005
This report investigates the future supply of and demand for certain types of skilled labour at the trades and sub-trades levels that will be required for these projects up to 2010. In particular, it focuses on skilled labour in the mechanical, fabrication and electrical trades and mobile plant operators and construction workers in the sub-trades.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supply and Demand, Skilled Workers, Apprenticeships
Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. – 1998
The impact of labor hire companies (employment agencies) on Australia's apprenticeship system was studied. Three data collection strategies were used: literature review; survey of a random sample of 200 labor hire firms in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia; and case studies of four recruitment and labor hire firms and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Employment Practices
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Crothall, Jodi; Callan, Victor; Hartel, Charmine E. J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1997
Study investigated faculty recruitment procedures across universities, departments, and sectors (public/private) in Australia, using reports from department heads and job applicants and case studies. Results revealed varied recruitment and selection strategies. Job applicants reported satisfaction with most but identified some areas needing…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, College Administration
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Everett, James E.; Armstrong, Robert W. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1990
A University of Western Australia market segmentation study for the masters program in business administration examined the relationship between Graduate Management Admission Test scores, work experience, faculty of undergraduate degree, gender, and academic success in the program. Implications of the results for establishing admission criteria…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Bachelors Degrees, Business Administration Education, College Administration
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Allen, Nessy – Higher Education, 1988
Formal faculty promotion procedures are examined in the context of costs, declining recruitment, declining staff mobility, federal restrictions and legislation, increasingly uneven distribution of faculty rank and age, and the tenure system. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Costs, Economic Change
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Stanley, Gordon; Reynolds, Pat – Higher Education, 1994
A survey of 2,000 Western Australia high school seniors indicates that, although most are unlikely to qualify for university, most would prefer it to vocational training. Institutional preferences are linked to their own perceived level of academic achievement and overall image of the institution. Implications for university marketing are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Students
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