Australian Journal of Education articles from November 1998

Australian Journal of Education archives from November 1998

SPECIAL ISSUE: MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING QUALITY IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
November 1, 1998... Editor's introduction The issue of quality in higher education is even more elusive than it is in other human endeavours. To use a well-worn but eminently serviceable cliche, quality, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Depending...

An assessment of past and current approaches to quality in higher education.
November 1, 1998... This paper argues that, despite an increasing uniformity of approach to quality monitoring, there is little analysis of the rationale behind the methods because there is little exploration of what `quality' is in a higher education context....

Managing quality in higher education institutions of the 21st century: A framework for the future.
November 1, 1998... The Australian university system developed with a commitment to academic independence of the sort expressed by yon Humboldt in early nineteenth-century Europe. `Pursuit of truth' came to be seen by many members of the academic community as a...

Managing the quality of teaching in higher education institutions in the 21st century.
November 1, 1998... The management of quality in Australian higher education has had one eye on the quality agenda associated with accountability and the other eye on the major transformations affecting teaching and learning. This paper examines some of the ways...

Supporting quality research in institutions of higher education.
November 1, 1998... Over the past three decades, governments and universities in OECD countries have relied mainly on six different mechanisms to safeguard quality in university research: competitive allocation of research funding to institutions; competitive...

Performance appraisal, performance management and quality in higher education: contradictions, issues and guiding principles for the future(1).
November 1, 1998... The quality of institutional outcomes depends fundamentally on the work of staff, individually and collectively. Systematic staff appraisal or performance management procedures are generally assumed to comprise an important part of quality...

Professional development and quality in higher education institutions of the 21st century.
November 1, 1998... The issue of quality in higher education in Australia, as elsewhere, remains problematic. This is not surprising given that past and current approaches at both the institutional and sectoral levels have tended to focus on the assurance,...