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Ma Rhea, Zane – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper examines the nexus between Indigenous rights, the modern university, and graduate attributes and theorises the potential of the university in postcolonial democracies to address Indigenous rights in its professional education programs. It posits the postcolonial professional as one who has been educated about internationally recognised…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Civil Rights, Indigenous Populations, Educational Policy
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Reddan, Gregory – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Field Project A is an elective course in the Bachelor of Exercise Science program at Griffith University and includes elements of both career development learning and work-integrated learning. This paper aims to determine the effects of the learning activities and assessment items developed for the course on students' self-efficacy in making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Self Efficacy, Decision Making
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Gray, Kathleen; Radloff, Alex – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
Universities put considerable resources into developing learning and teaching plans. In this paper, we examine the purpose of these plans in the context of legislative requirements, public accountability and the quality agenda. We analyse a sample of Australian university learning and teaching plans using a framework we have developed based on…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Accountability, Role of Education
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Dixon, Mary – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
As noted in other papers in this volume, a group of health and education researchers and practitioners came together to further develop their understanding of the situation of young people, who were clients of The Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute in 2007 in Melbourne, Australia. The resultant research project, funded by the Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Institutional Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
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Devlin, Brian – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article analyses the status and future of bilingual education programs using Indigenous languages and English in remote Northern Territory schools. It explains why this educational approach is so contested at present, resulting in an unresolved situation which can best be regarded as an uneasy compromise on the ground and a stalemate at…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism
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Shurville, Simon; Browne, Tom; Whitaker, Marian – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the emerging role of the Senior Academic Technology Officer (SATO) in higher education. It aims to consider two existing templates for this professional role derived from mainstream information management and information technology: the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Information Management
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Uys, Philip M. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This paper analyses the change and innovation strategies that Charles Sturt University (CSU) used from 2007 to 2009 during the implementation and mainstreaming of an open source learning management system (LMS), Sakai, named locally as "CSU Interact". CSU was in January 2008 the first Australian University to implement an open source…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Management Systems, Criticism, Educational Technology
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Nathan, Robert Jeyakumar; Siang, Terence Tan Gek; Shawkataly, Omar – Australian Universities' Review, 2013
Higher education is viewed as part of the national agenda in transforming Malaysia into a high-income nation. This has resulted in a sky-rocketing number of graduates in Malaysia's recent history. Industry relies on higher education as the source of skilled employees, and it is important for industry to attract and retain talented employees in…
Descriptors: Universities, Commercialization, School Business Relationship, Knowledge Economy
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MacGillivray, W. R. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2013
Southern Cross University (SCU) has established a pathways college to increase access to and widen participation in higher education for people in regional areas of Australia. While many Australian universities have preparatory colleges associated with them, SCU College has been designed to make it unique in the sector. SCU College will operate…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Transitional Programs, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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Missingham, Roxanne – Australian Library Journal, 2012
On May 31st 2012 the ACTive ALIA Group and Australian Government Libraries Information network (AGLIN) ran a national symposium on the topic of "Value of Libraries". Approximately 80 attended this event which was designed to challenge librarians with conversations that focused on economic and other means of demonstrating our value--value…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Library Services, Focus Groups
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Ferreira, Jo-Anne; Davis, Julie – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Participation in networks, both as a concept and process, is widely supported in environmental education as a democratic and equitable pathway to individual and social change for sustainability. However, the processes of participation in networks are rarely problematized. Rather, it is assumed that we inherently know how to participate in…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Social Change
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Barnard, A.; Nash, R.; McEvoy, K.; Shannon, S.; Waters, C.; Rochester, S.; Bolt, S. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Peer review of teaching is recognized increasingly as one strategy for academic development even though historically peer review of teaching is often unsupported by policy, action and culture in many Australian universities. Higher education leaders report that academics generally do not engage with peer review of teaching in a systematic or…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peer Evaluation, Sustainability, Models
Kitchen, Hannah; Fordham, Elizabeth; Henderson, Kirsteen; Looney, Anne; Maghnouj, Soumaya – OECD Publishing, 2017
Romania's education system has made impressive strides over the past two decades, with an increasing share of students mastering the basic competencies that they need for life and work. But these average improvements mask significant disparities in learning outcomes and attainment, with an increasing share of students leaving education early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation
Taylor-Leech, Kerry; Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This overview identifies some common features of macro-level language planning and briefly summarises the changing approaches to the analysis of macro-planning in the field. It previews six cases of language-in-education planning in response to linguistic diversity presented by the contributors to this issue. The cases show how macro-planning can…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Definitions
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Gurr, David; Drysdale, Lawrie; Clarke, Simon; Wildy, Helen – Management in Education, 2014
In this article, we report on our initial work with the International School Leadership Development Network. In doing so, we present two cases of principals leading high-need schools, and conclude with some key observations in relation to what is distinctive about leading these schools. The first case features a principal leading a suburban school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Leadership, Principals
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