Vol. 50, no. 2.

Published September 2008.
Cover photograph by Makoto Yamashita.

Articles
Golden Jubilee – Part Two! Ian R Dobson

The Australian Universities’ Review: A life (so far). Simon Marginson

How large are the cuts in operating grants per student? Gerald Burke

Research grant mania. Jeffrey Goldsworthy

High society: Are our social sciences as relevant to government as they might be? Gary Wickham

Dilemmas of dissent International students’ protest, Melbourne 2006/2007. Paul Rodan

Plagiarism: Academic dishonesty or ‘blind spot’ of multicultural education? Helen Song-Turner

Methodology, meaning and usefulness of rankings. Ross Williams

The evisceration of equal employment opportunity in higher education.
Margaret Thornton

Reconceptualising post-PhD research pathways: A model to create new postdoctoral positions and improve the quality of postdoctoral training in Australia. J Berman, S Juniper, T Pitman & C Thomson

Reviews

The legitimacy of quality assurance in higher education: 'Council of Europe higher education series No.9' by Luc Weber and Katia Dolgova-Dreyer (eds). Review by David Woodhouse

Casting for the VC: ' Recruitment and Selection of Vice-Chancellors for Australian Universities' by Bernard O’Meara and Stanley Petzall
Review by Paul Rodan

Vol. 50, no. 1

Published March 2008.
Cover photograph by Skip O'Donnell.

Articles
Golden jubilee by Paul Rodan

The retreat from the critical: social science research in the corporatised university by Margaret Thornton

Efficiency and effectiveness in higher education: who is accountable for what? by John Kenny

Update on National University Stress Study by Tony Winefield, Carolyn Boyd, Judith Saebel and Silvia Pignata

HECS: some missing pieces by Elisa Rose Birch and Paul W Miller

Breaking university rules: discipline and indiscipline past and present by Bruce Lindsay

Fat Cat and Friends: which university pays its general staff the best? by Ian Dobson

Reviews

Limited space in the ivory tower: 'A Large and Liberal Education: Higher Education for the 21st Century' by Donald Markwell. Review by Alex Millmow

Vol. 49, no. 1 & 2

Published July 2007. Cover photograph by Alex Nikada.

Articles

After Copernicus: Beyond the crisis in Australian universities by Geoff Sharrock

Future Shock: The view from the top

• Which standards? by Ian Chubb
• Esteem-powered learning by Glyn Davis
• Diversity for what? by Anne R Edwards
• Regulation and markets by Margaret Gardner and Julie Wells
• The big changes are yet to be seen by Ian Young
• Unimagined futures by Carolyn Allport

Oh, the Humanities! Australia’s innovation system out of kilter by Stuart Cunningham

How not to fund teaching and learning by Leesa Wheelehan

Off the radar: the problem of distance-learning in ‘integrated’ degrees by Monir Mir and Abu Shiraz Rahaman

Beached: The Cronulla events a year on by David Burchell

Reviews

Remembering the nineties: 'The Longest Decade' by George Megalogenis. Review by Andrew Nette

Moving with the times: 'Making and Breaking Universities' by Bruce Williams. Review by Alex Millmow

Vol. 48, no. 2

Published May 2006. Cover photograph by Flavia Bottazzini.

Articles

Multiculturalism’s discontents

• All in the same boat by David McKnight
• An email from the ether: after the Cronulla events by David Burchell

Fight for your right to say it?

• Beyond ‘political correctness’ by Carolyn Allport
• Race matters by Gillian Cowlishaw
• ‘It is forbidden...’ by Jennifer Rutherford
• Legitimate enemies by Dr Judy Lattas

Sedition and academic freedom

• Strategies to protect academic freedom by George Williams
• A short history of sedition laws in Australia by Andrew Nette

The international student journey by Gail Baker & Ken Hawkins

Peer mentoring as academic resource by JaneMaree Maher, Jo Lindsay, Vicki Peel & Christina Twomey

Satire

Diseases of the thesis by Chris Fleming

Reviews

Young man Luther: 'The Latham Diaries' by Mark Latham. Review by David Burchell

Girt by sea: 'Australia Fair' by Hugh Stretton. Review by Dennis Woodward

The eastern academy: 'Asian universities: historical perspectives and contemporary challenges' by P G Altbach & Toru Umakoshi (eds). Review by Norma Koehne

Vol. 48, no. 1

Published September 2005. Cover photograph by Mark van Driel.

Articles

Running on empty by John Quiggin

Pursuing the Ubiquity Principle by Tom Clark

Reversing the slide by Michael Gallagher

Academia’s own demographic time-bomb by Graham Hugo

Advertising change by Alec McHoul

Belittled: The state of play on bullying by Eva Cox and James Goodman

No academic borders? by A Wendy Russell

Satire

QA, RTS & quality of post-graduate theses in Australian universities by N O Grants and V B Slim (aka Cameron Grant)

Reviews

A spider’s web: 'Material thinking' by Paul Carter. Review by Judy Lattas

Those dismal scientists: 'Economia' by Geoff Davies. Review by Alex Millmow

Networking niceties: 'Consortia' by David C B Teather (ed). Review by Dr Eric Beerkens

Around the Journals. Reviews by Maryanne Dever

Vol. 47, no. 1

Published December 2004. Cover artwork by Damien Frost.

Articles

Labor's poor form by David Burchell

How not to do change management: The birth of a Murdoch University School by Dianne van Rhyn and David A Holloway

A personal memoir of policy failure: The failed merger of ANU and the Canberra CAE by Roger Scott

A contrasting courtship: The Monash takeover of Chisholm Institute of Technology by Paul Rodan

Shaping university teaching towards measurement for accountability: Problems of the Graduate Skills Assessment Test
by Kate Chanock, Rosemary Clerehan, Tim Moore, Anne Prince

It's a shame about audit by Deborah Tyler & Russell Daine Wright

The neglected role of a neglected body: Academic Boards’ role in assuring ‘equivalent’ standards by Gavin Moodie

Review

Ivory Basement Leadership: 'Power and invisibility in the changing university' by Joan Eveline. Review by Jane Maree Maher

Vol. 46, no. 2

Published December 2004. Cover artwork by Jie Zeng.

Articles

The Howard Era - in retrospect?

• Border control by Judith Brett
• Aussie battler, or wordly opportunist? by James Walter
• Mr Howard goes to Washington - and brings home victory by Dennis Glover
• Something to chew on by David Burchell

Under no circumstances resolve the main problem: The Higher Education Policy Overview in Australia by Tom Clark

A modest victory for academic values: The Demise of David Robinson by Paul Rodan

Corporate governance disaster: The implications for governing bodies by David Holloway

Duty, discretion and conflict: Governance and the legal obligations of governing boards by Suzanne Corcoran

Reviews

'Working Knowledge: The New Vocationalism and Higher Education' by Colin Symes & John McIntyre (ed.). Review by Susan Yell

'Off Course: From Public Place to Market Place at Melbourne University' by John Cain & John Hewitt. Review by Paul Kniest

'Quality and Power in Higher Education' by Louise Morley. Review by Maryanne Dever

'How to Write a Thesis' by Rowena Murray. Review by Maryanne Dever

Vol. 46, no. 1

Published August 2003. Cover artwork by Gavin Brown.

Articles

An American empire?

• The Burden by Michael Ignatieff
• A Brittle Optimism by David Goodman
• The Burden of ‘Hyper-Power’ by Neville Meaney
• Fear of Slipping by David McKnight
• Upsetting the Balance by Bob Howard
  

Markets in merit

• Markets in Merit or Merits in Markets by Frank Stilwell
• Markets, Markets Everywhere by Michael Darcy

Shameless! Reconceiving the Problem of Plagiarism by Robert Briggs

Canuck-Do Higher Education by Mark Rosenfeld

Examining the Examiners by Alan Lawson, Helene Marsh and Trevor Tansley

Reviews

Panic Stations: 'Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society' by Ghassan Hage. Australian Humanities Review, Special issue on ‘The War on Terror’. Reviews by David Burchell.

The trouble with radicals: 'The unchained university' by Andrew Norton. Review by Tom Clark.
'Research Methods for Students, Academics and Professionals: Information Management Systems' by Kirsty Williamson (ed.). Review by Maryanne Dever.

'Sexual Politics and Greedy Institutions: Union Women, Commitments and Conflicts in Public and Private' by Suzanne Franzway. Review by Maryanne Dever.

'The Devil’s Dictionary of Education' by Tyrell Burgess. Review by Maryanne Dever.

Vol. 45, no. 2.

Published December 2002. Cover artwork by Chris Orr.

Articles

The Complexities of Communicating Science by Ian Lowe

Dilemmas of Defending Dissent: The Dismissal of Ted Steele from the University of Wollongong by Brian Martin

Fish or Fowl? Collegial Processes in Managerialist Institutions by Gavin Moodie

Managing Student Plagiarism in Large Academic Departments by Justin Zobel and Margaret Hamilton

Plagiarism and Managerialism by David Pyvis

Comment

Representations of Academic Labour in a Commodified World by Stuart Rosewarne

Reviews

ONE.TEL, Once Told: ‘Rich Kids’ by Paul Barry. Review by Alex Millmow.

Arguing Yourself Silly: ‘How to Argue with an Economist’ by Lindy Edwards. Review by Geoff Davies.

‘Gender and the Restructured University’ by Ann Brooks & Alison Mackinnon (eds). Review by Maryanne Dever.

‘Research Methods for Postgraduates’ by Tony Greenfield (ed). Review by Maryanne Dever.

‘Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming (R)Elations’ by Alison Bartlett & Gina Mercer (eds). Review by Maryanne Dever.

‘A Woman’s Guide to Doctoral Studies’ by Diana Leonard. Review by Maryanne Dever.

Vol. 45, no. 1. The Indigenous Issue

Published September 2002. Cover artwork by Eddie Liddle Jagamara.

Articles

A Practical Critique of Practical Reconciliation. What is the Reality of Indigenous Funding? by Greg Crough

Indigenous Australian Participation in Higher Education: The Realities of Practical Reconciliation by Wendy Brabham and John Henry, with Esme Bamblett and Jennifer Bates

Regional Agreements, Higher Education and Representations of Indigenous Australian Reality (Why wasn’t I taught that in school?) by Greg McConville

Approaching Ethical Issues: Institutional Management of Indigenous Research by Gus Worby and Daryle Rigney

Superannuation Issues for Indigenous Australians: Scope for Reform by Brad Pragnell

Treaties, Partnerships and Cultural Heritage: Beyond Apartheid, Australian-Style by Joel Wright

Understanding Australian Racism by Laksiri Jayasuriya

Vol. 44, no. 1 & 2.

Published 2001. Cover artwork by Jiri Tibor Novak.

Articles

'A Golden Age': A personal reflection, 1970s and now by Jill Roe

The Myth of the 'Golden Age' by Paul Rodan

The view from the west - Dawkins and the University of Western Sydney by Michael Symonds

Academic freedom and organisational identity by William G Tierney

Economics: From emperor to vassal? by Steven Keen

A new approach to non-traditional student recruitment and retention by Nadine Pelling

Educating and organising globally: perspectives on the internet and higher education by Carolyn Allport

Reviews

An elegant morality tale: 'Facing the Music' by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson. Review by David Burchell

Keen vision; short sight: 'The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia' by Simon Marginson and Mark Considine. Review by Don Aitken

The policy parabola: 'Social policy, public policy: from problem to practice' by Meredith Edwards et. al. Review by Jane Nicholls

Keenesian economics, anyone? 'Debunking Economics:The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences' by Steve Keen. Review by Alex Millmow

Are doctorates worthwhile? 'The Ph.D. Trap Revisited' by Wilfred Crude. Review by Brian Martin

Universities survive? 'Adaptive University Structures: An Analysis of Adaptation to Socioeconomic Environments' by Barbara Sporn. Review by Deanna de Zilwa.

Vol. 43, no. 2.

Published 2000. Cover artwork by Jiri Tibor Novak.

Articles

A Research training’ and the conceptual barbarism of the White Paper’s postgraduate research agenda by Bradley Smith

Universitas21 - From handloom to chatroom by Simon Booth

Marketisation and the new quality agenda: postgraduate coursework at the crossroads by Bradley Smith and Mark Frankland

Research grants: problems and options by Brian Martin

Maximising the benefits from intellectual property in universities:awareness of our rights and obligations by Ann L Monotti

Exercising our duty of care as researchers for those we diagnose to be ‘at risk’ by Gary D Bouma and Benedict J Canny

Reviews

Helping us to finish: 'Doing Post Graduate research in Australia' by Kate Stevens and Christine Asmar. Review by Tom Clark

International postgraduate supervision: 'Supervising POstgraduates from non-English speaking backgrounds' by Yoni Ryan and Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt (eds). Review by Qinglin Chen.