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vol. 52 no. 1

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Vol. 52, no. 1.

Published February 2010.
Cover photograph by Arter Ng. Sculpture by Greg Johns.

Articles

Export earnings from the overseas student industry: how much? Bob Birrell and T Fred Smith

Higher education’s role in ‘education for sustainability’ Kerry Shephard

Academics and the media in Australia. Graeme Orr

Research output of Australian universities: are the newer institutions catching up? Ross Williams

The frustrated career: casual employment in higher education. Lorene Gottschalk & Steve McEachern

Ethics, ethical human research and human research ethics committees. Margaret Lindorff

Moving beyond university rankings: developing a world class university system in Australia. Tony Sheil

Opinion

Run that sexy motto by me again. Joseph Gora

Reviews

School? Choice! School choice – How parents negotiate the new school market in Australia by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor and Geoffrey Sherington. Review by Georgina Tsolidis

All we are saying… Peace education: Exploring ethical and philosophical foundations by James Page. Review by Patricia Kerslake

Studied success Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities by William G Bowen, Matthew M Chingos & Michael S McPherson. Review by Patricia Kerslake

Down and out in London and Paris (and Helsinki and Berlin ...and Oslo) Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe. A joint international project co-ordinated by the Higher Education Information System (HIS), Germany, by Dominic Orr (ed.)
Student Finance in a Welfare State: Effects of reducing economic barriers to higher education in Norway by Vibeke Opheim. Reviews by Ian R Dobson

Just a bunch of rankers. Mapping the higher education landscape: Towards a European classification of higher education by Frans van Vucht (ed.). Review by Leo Goedegebuure

The Joshua Trees: Private schools and the poor. The beautiful tree: A personal Journey into how the world’s poorest people are educating themselves by James Tooley. Review by Jonathan Sibley


vol. 51 no. 1

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Vol. 51, no. 2.

Published September 2009.
Cover photograph by Dirk HR Spennemann.

Articles

Letter from the editor. Ian R Dobson

University fodder. Georgina Tsolidis

Improving student retention in higher education. Glenda Crosling, Margaret Heagney & Liz Thomas

Student/Worker/Carer: The intersecting priorities of Arts students. JaneMaree Maher, Jennifer Mitchell & Kate Brown

The international student as student, migrant and victim. Paul Rodan

Rethinking the Australian doctoral examination process. Margaret Kiley

Cultural issues in commencing the supervision of Chinese research students. Richard Ingleby & Mona Chung

Diversity in Australian higher education. Leo Goedegebuure, Hamish Coates, JJ van der Lee & V Lynn Meek

The vanishing idea of a scholarly life. Ann Lazarfield Jensen & Kylie Morgan

Widening participation? Liz Dunphy & John P Wilson

The competition for industry research funding. Troy Coyle

Opinion

University Rankings 2.0. Alex Usher

Reviews

The virtuous researcher: 'Researching with integrity: The ethics of academic enquiry' by Bruce Macfarlane.
Review by Margaret Lindorff

Waiting for Gough: 'Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History. The Biography, Volume I' by Jenny Hocking.
Review by Paul Rodan

Cheaters’ superhighway: ' Plagiarism, the Internet and Student Learning Improving Academic Integrity' by Wendy Sutherland-Smith.
Review by Helen Song-Turner

Free trade in education: ' Teaching in Transnational Higher Education: Enhancing learning for offshore international students' by Lee Dunn and Michelle Wallace (eds).
Review by Paul Kniest

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vol. 51 no. 1

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Vol. 51, no. 1.

Published February 2009.
Cover photograph by Garry Schlatter.

Articles

Letter from the editor. Ian R Dobson

The Bradley Review and access to higher education in Australia. Bob Birrell & Daniel Edwards

Research productivity: some paths less travelled. Brian Martin

The Trade Practices Act, competitive neutrality and research costing: issues for Australian universities. Tania Bezzobs

The profile of university research services staff. Darlene Sebalj & Allyson Holbrook

Hey Big Spender! An analysis of Australian universities and how much they pay their general staff. Ian R Dobson

Not quite like a honeymoon: Charting the first 24 months of Sino-foreign educational programmes. Mike Willis & Rowan Kennedy

Professional staff in UK universities: recent developments. Celia Whitchurch, Maureen Skinner & John Lauwerys

Keeping it local: geographic patterns of university attendance. Daniel Edwards

Reviews

The theatre of the classroom: 'Improving Student Retention in Higher Education: The Role of Teaching and Learning', by Glenda Crosling, Liz Thomas and Margaret Heagney (eds). Review by Maree Conway

Higher education under the rising and midnight suns: 'University Reform in Finland and Japan', by Timo Aarevaara & Fumihiro Maruyama (eds). Review by Eric Skuja

Education Revolution’s little red book: ' Education, Science and Public Policy: Ideas for an Education Revolution'.
Review by Paul Rodan

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vol. 50 no. 2

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Vol. 50, no. 2.

Published September 2008.
Cover photograph 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' Luc Weber and Katia Dolgova-Dreyer (eds). Review David Woodhouse

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

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vol. 50 no. 1

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Vol. 50, no. 1

Published March 2008.
Cover photograph Skip O'Donnell.

Articles
Golden jubilee. Paul Rodan

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

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

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

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

Breaking university rules: discipline and indiscipline past and presen. Bruce Lindsay

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

Reviews

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

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vol. 49 no. 1&2

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Vol. 49, no. 1 & 2

Published July 2007. Cover photograph Alex Nikada.

Articles

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

Future Shock: The view from the top

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

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

How not to fund teaching and learning. Leesa Wheelehan

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

Beached: The Cronulla events a year on. David Burchell

Reviews

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

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

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vol. 48 no. 2

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Vol. 48, no. 2

Published May 2006. Cover photograph Flavia Bottazzini.

Articles

Multiculturalism’s discontents

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

Fight for your right to say it?

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

Sedition and academic freedom

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

The international student journey. Gail Baker & Ken Hawkins

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

Satire

Diseases of the thesis. Chris Fleming

Reviews

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

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

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

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vol. 48 no. 1

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Vol. 48, no. 1

Published September 2005. Cover photograph Mark van Driel.

Articles

Running on empty. John Quiggin

Pursuing the Ubiquity Principle. Tom Clark

Reversing the slide. Michael Gallagher

Academia’s own demographic time-bomb. Graham Hugo

Advertising change. Alec McHoul

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

No academic borders? A Wendy Russell

Satire

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

Reviews

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

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

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

Around the Journals. Reviews Maryanne Dever

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vol. 47 no. 1

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Vol. 47, no. 1

Published December 2004. Cover artwork Damien Frost.

Articles

Labor's poor form. David Burchell

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

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

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

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

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

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

Review

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

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vol. 46 no. 2

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Vol. 46, no. 2

Published December 2004. Cover artwork Jie Zeng.

Articles

The Howard Era - in retrospect?

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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vol. 46 no. 1

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Vol. 46, no. 1

Published August 2003. Cover artwork Gavin Brown.

Articles

An American empire?

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

Markets in merit

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

Shameless! Reconceiving the Problem of Plagiarism. Robert Briggs

Canuck-Do Higher Education. Mark Rosenfeld

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

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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vol. 45 no. 2

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Vol. 45, no. 2

Published December 2002. Cover artwork Chris Orr.

Articles

The Complexities of Communicating Science. Ian Lowe

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

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

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

Plagiarism and Managerialism. David Pyvis

Comment

Representations of Academic Labour in a Commodified World. Stuart Rosewarne

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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vol. 45 no. 1

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Vol. 45, no. 1. The Indigenous Issue

Published September 2002. Cover artwork Eddie Liddle Jagamara.

Articles

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

Indigenous Australian Participation in Higher Education: The Realities of Practical Reconciliation 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?) Greg McConville

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

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

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

Understanding Australian Racism. Laksiri Jayasuriya

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vol. 44 no. 1 & 2

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Vol. 44, no. 1 & 2 (double issue)

Published 2001. Cover artwork Jiri Tibor Novak.

Articles

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

The Myth of the 'Golden Age'. Paul Rodan

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

Academic freedom and organisational identity. William G Tierney

Economics: From emperor to vassal? Steven Keen

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

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

Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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vol. 43 no. 2

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Vol. 43, no. 2.

Published 2000. Cover artwork Jiri Tibor Novak.

Articles

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

Universitas21 - From handloom to chatroom. Simon Booth

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

Research grants: problems and options. Brian Martin

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

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

Reviews

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

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

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vol. 42 no. 2/vol. 42 no.1

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Vol. 42, no. 2/Vol. 43, no. 1 (double issue)

Published 2000. Cover artwork Jiri Tibor Novak.

Commentaries

Everybody wants quality education: but what does it mean? Greg McConville

Feature: International Higher Education

Living with the Other: higher education in the global era. Simon Marginson

The General Agreement on Trade in Services: Implications for public post-secondary education in Australia. Marjorie Griffin Cohen

Global Corporations “R” Us? The impacts of globalisation on Australian universities. Graham Pratt and David Poole

The role of the state in the provision of higher education in the United States. Brian Pusser

Tuition policy issues in Russian higher education. Olga Bain

The Americanisation of the reformed university in Argentina. Marcela Mollis

Comparing national education systems in the global era. Simon Marginson and Marcela Mollis

Articles

Silencing the Academy? Reflecting on a dispute in a corporatising university. Allan Patience

Tensions unresolved: some current issues in university governance. Paul Rodan

Reviews

Exercise in nostalgia: 'Why Universities Matter' Tony Coady. Review John O’Brien

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