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