This collection of papers discusses issues of quality, institutional research culture, and processes which encourage, achieve, sustain, and assure high quality teaching and research in universities, primarily from a British and Australian perspective. Part 1 is titled "Issues of Quality and Institutional Research Culture" and contains the following six papers: "Planning for Quality in Graduate Studies" (Ingrid Moses); "From Thesis Writing to Research Application: Learning the Research Culture" (Peter Sheehan); "Staff Development in Relation to Research" (Lewis Elton); "A Model for the Management of Research Degree Supervision in a Post-1987 University" (Jan Whittle); "Gender and Postgraduate Supervision" (Linda Conrad); and "Quality in Supervising Overseas Students?" (Tania Aspland and Thomas O'Donoghue). Part 2, "Educational Processes To Achieve Quality," presents the following eight papers: "Improving the Quality of Postgraduate Supervision through Residential Staff Development Programmes" (Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt); "The 'Big Picture' about Managing Writing" (Robert Brown); "Supervising the Writing of a Thesis" (Nanette Gottlieb); "The Postgraduate's Journey--An Interplay of Roles" (Pam Denicolo and Maureen Pope); "Avoiding Communication Breakdown" (Estelle Phillips); "Supervising Literature Reviews" (Christine Bruce); "Contracts and Checklists: Practical Propositions for Postgraduate Supervision" (Yoni Ryan); and "'Guidelines for Discussion': A Tool for Managing Postgraduate Supervision" (Barbara Grant and Adele Graham). (Each paper contains references.) (JDD)