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Direct linkAndrew Harvey; Michael Luckman; Catherine Yuan Gao – Intercultural Education, 2024
This paper presents findings from a campus climate survey conducted at an Australian university. Unprecedented compositional diversity now exists in higher education, with students enrolled from different religious, socio-economic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds. Despite this diversity, little research has been conducted into the ways that…
Descriptors: College Environment, Student Diversity, LGBTQ People, Student Experience
Fotovatian, Sepideh; Miller, Jenny – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This case study profiles eight international PhD students and describes the process of the construction and negotiation of their social and institutional identities in an Australian university. Audio-recorded informal conversations of the students highlight the role of social membership, staffroom interactions and language in the construction of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Identification (Psychology), Audio Equipment
Download full textHughes, Clarissa – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
This paper reports the results of a small qualitative pilot study on the role of alcohol in college life, undertaken at three residential colleges at an Australian university. Focus groups (involving 43 students aged between 17 and 23 years) investigated participants' views of the social functions of alcohol in the residential college environment.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Foreign Countries, College Environment, Focus Groups
Genn, J. M. – Australian University, 1975
A study of education students' perceptions of actual and ideal educational environment showed similarity between student and faculty perceptions of ideal environment, dissimilarity between student actual and ideal perceptions, but little relationship between student perceptions and achievement, sex, educational background, or personality needs.…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Students, Education Majors
Peer reviewedStanley, Gordon; Oliver, Jeff – Higher Education, 1994
Data on admission criteria for four undergraduate business administration programs in Western Australian universities were used to investigate variation in student characteristics across schools. Results indicated large differences in student characteristics among schools, which could affect student progress and outcomes. Implications for such…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education, College Admission, College Environment
Peer reviewedTaylor, Tony; Gough, John; Bundrock, Valerie; Winter, Richard – Studies in Higher Education, 1998
A survey of faculty in three Australian universities indicates serious concern in many areas of academic responsibility and future prospects. The quality of new students, teaching, and research are perceived as declining. Changes in university administration to a more corporate style are seen as a threat to academic freedom. Research universities…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty
Peer reviewedCarpenter, P. G.; Western, J. S. – Australian Journal of Education, 1984
In an investigation of Australia's declining rate of college bound students, a social psychological model of academic attainment (linking students' social origins to school experiences, perceptions of others' support, self-assessment, and high schools seniors' aspirations and grades) is applied to the processes used by students in adjusting to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, College Choice
