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Christopher, Joe – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This study seeks to confirm if internal audit, a corporate control process, is functioning effectively in Australian public universities. The study draws on agency theory, published literature and best-practice guidelines to develop an internal audit evaluation framework. A survey instrument is thereafter developed from the framework and used as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Governance, Audits (Verification)
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De Silva Lokuwaduge, Chitra; Armstrong, Anona – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Australian government concern for improved governance in the higher education sector over recent years has driven the implementation of governance protocols. However, there has been little evidence of any evaluation of the impact of the governance structures on the performance of universities. This paper presents an analysis of the impact of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
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O'Connor, Pat; Carvalho, Teresa; White, Kate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This article is concerned with the extent to which the leadership of higher education is a universally positive or contingent experience. It draws on comparative data from semi-structured interviews with those in senior leadership positions in public universities in Australia, Ireland and Portugal, countries which are differently located on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Public Colleges, College Administration
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Moodie, Gavin – Australian Educational Researcher, 2012
This paper considers the rate at which students are crossing the boundaries between Australian vocational and higher education. It finds that public universities admit a higher proportion of students on the basis of a vocational education qualification than do private colleges and that private colleges broadly do not admit a higher proportion of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocational Education, College Transfer Students, Public Colleges
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Christopher, Joseph – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This article draws on the multi-theoretical approach to governance and a qualitative research method to examine the extent to which the corporate approach is practised in Australian public universities. The findings reveal that in meeting the needs of multiple stakeholders, universities are faced with a number of structural, legalistic, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Public Colleges, Governance
Thornton, Margaret – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law" is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret Thornton considers the impact of the…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Privatization
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Winter, Richard P.; O'Donohue, Wayne – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Our study explores the relationship between values and academic identity in the public university. Framing the study is the proposition public universities face academic identity tensions arising from pressures to combine and sustain competing and contradictory managerial (economic) and academic (professional) values systems. Academic responses to…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Values, Correlation, Teacher Attitudes
Malouff, John M.; Hall, Lena – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of university instructors meeting individually with students early in a term to discuss the students' career goals and plans and how those may relate to the course. Two psychology instructors set up individual 15-minute meetings with students. Evaluation of the meetings involved evaluation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Psychology
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Trinidad, Sue; Broadley, Tania; Terry, Emmy; Boyd, Don; Lock, Graeme; Byrne, Matt; Sharplin, Elaine; Ledger, Sue – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2012
This paper reports on outcomes of Phases One and Two of the ALTC Competitive Research and Development Project "Developing Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools". This project funded over two years aims to strengthen the capacity and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Rural Education, Foreign Countries
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Sharrock, Geoff – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
In a new mixed economy of higher learning, Australian universities require more strategic management to compete and collaborate sustainably. However, many scholars argue that new modes of university management are at odds with scholarly aims and values. This article examines how Australian universities frame their missions and communicate their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Public Colleges, College Administration
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Lindsay, Bruce – Australian Universities' Review, 2010
Although a growing body of research has been conducted on student misconduct in universities, quantitative data on disciplinary action undertaken by institutions against student transgressions are largely absent from the literature. This paper provides baseline quantitative data on disciplinary action against students in the universities. It is…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Foreign Countries, Plagiarism
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Christopher, Joe – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
This study draws on the multi-theoretical approach to governance and the views of university chief executive officers (CEOs) to examine the extent to which internal auditing as a control mechanism is adopted in Australian public universities under an environment of change management. The findings highlight negative consequences of change and their…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Theory Practice Relationship, College Administration, Foreign Countries
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Douglas, Brian; Lovat, Terence – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
This article investigates the movement of theological education away from diocesan controlled theological colleges in the Anglican Church of Australia into the mainstream curriculum of public universities. Particular reference is made to the establishment of Theology as an area of study at The University of Newcastle. Other models of theological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Philosophy, Theological Education
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Tsolidis, Georgina – Australian Universities' Review, 2009
School choice is most commonly considered in the context of private/public schooling and access to university. University entry remains a key element in family decision-making about which school they would like their children to attend. Debates about school choice are most commonly framed in relation to marketisation and the relative popularity of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Education, Foreign Countries, High Achievement
Birchard, Karen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article focuses on a report by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada which states that four-year public colleges in the United States have significantly more resources for teaching and research than do their counterparts in Australia, Canada, and Britain. According to the report, "Trends in Higher Education: Volume 3:…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Income, Educational Finance, Teacher Student Ratio
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