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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Australian higher education"”.
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Quality management in Australian higher education : A critical review
Quality management in higher education is a politically contentious issue in Australia. as it is in North America, New Zealand, and many European countries. The Australian government has instituted a quality management system for higher education that it claims will improve university efficiency, …
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A study of organisational justice and participative workplace change in Australian higher education
… justice framework within the context of the Australian Higher Education (HE) sector. The thesis examines the extent to which the Australian HE sector makes provisions for participative workplace change, the extent to which participants within the sector perceive participative workplace change …
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Technology enhanced learning innovation, TEQSA threshold standards and Australian higher education : a developmental phenomenographic study of educational designer's understandings and experiences
… Developmental Phenomenographic study, twenty-six Educational Designers/Developers’ (EDs’) understandings and experiences of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) innovation both generally, and whilst working under TEQSA Threshold Standards (TS), were investigated with the aim of illuminating how TEL …
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Workplace Bullying: An exploratory study in Australian academia
… have to date been conducted in the context of Australian academia. This study therefore contributes through breaking new ground by exploring bullying within the increasingly corporatised and competitive Australian higher education sector. New Public Management (NPM) practices, diminished …
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Challenging the orthodoxy : an alternative strategy for the tertiary teaching of piano.
… piano teaching model for application in the Australian higher education environment. Initially, the history and development of the piano learning and teaching profession is investigated, prior to a synthesis of the research literature and perceptions of piano pedagogies in action, which …
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Reconceptualising engagement : a study of Australian academics
… is set amidst the series of changes made to the Australian Higher Education sector that have had a profound effect on the management of its human capital. The changes have larg ely been driven by government policy in response to globalisation, increased competition and technological advances. As …
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Home and away: The effects of patriotic education on Chinese international students in Australia through a critique of identity theories and policy myth making
… who have been studying post-graduate courses in Australian universities, following a lifetime of loyalty and state-based patriotic education in China. The key research question, framed by Bourdieu’s habitus and field concepts, asks: What happens to these students’ identity after studying and …
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The Politics of Numbers: Statistical Fairness, Market Justice and the ‘inclusion’ of First Nations people in Australian Universities
… First Nations peoples’ participation in higher education has gained increasing policy attention since the introduction of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (NATSIEP) in 1989. The main focus of this policy, and allied research, has been on Indigenous …
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Resilience, complete mental health and academic achievement in traditional and non-traditional first year psychology students
Since reforms in Australian higher education in the late 1980s, students from historically under-represented backgrounds (i.e., ‘non-traditional’ students) have become increasingly the norm. While some argue that widening participation is problematic, research regarding the relationships between …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
The need for non-Indigenous Australians to be more cognisant of the entangled histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, has reverberated through a range of recent reviews of Australian higher education and policy documents which recommend better understanding of Indigenous Australia …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
The need for non-Indigenous Australians to be more cognisant of the entangled histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, has reverberated through a range of recent reviews of Australian higher education and policy documents which recommend better understanding of Indigenous Australia …
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The global market and its impact on an Australian university's pathway programs : policies, pragmatics and personal realities
… the influences of the global market narrative on higher education, the policy responses by one Australian university (Tyler University) and the impact on English language education, the Tyler Foundation Studies pathway program and the staff in that program. The literature points to patterns and …