Higher education
Alternative labels
Post-secondary education
Universities and colleges study and teaching
Book
Australian clinical legal education: designing and operating a best practice clinical program in an Australian law school
Overview Clinical legal education (CLE) is potentially the major disruptor of traditional law schools’ core functions. Good CLE challenges many central clichés of conventional learning in law—everything from case book method to the 50-minute lecture. And it can challenge a contemporary overemphasis on screen-based learning, particularly when those screens only provide information and require no...
Conference paper
Going off the beaten track: exploring Chinese international students’ motivations for selecting regional Australian higher education
This study aims to understand the motivations of Chinese international students who have enrolled at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), which is a regional Australian university, which is a variation in trend from the choice of majority of Chinese international students who attend universities in Australian metropolitan contests.
Report
Access to higher education: does distance impact students’ intentions to attend university?
Data analysis indicates distance is a predictor of students’ intentions to attend university, net of selected demographic and socio-economic variables. This report applies statistical modelling and geo-mapping to existing data, contributing to current literature as well as indicating an ongoing advancement from discrete categorisation to continuous measures of students’ distance from higher education providers. Background...
Report
Investing in tertiary education assets
This report considers the effectiveness of investment in the NZ tertiary education sector assets to support educational success.
Discussion paper
The boundaries and connections between the VET and higher education sectors: 'confused, contested and collaborative'
Internationally, Australia’s tertiary education system, comprising the higher education and vocational education and training (VET) sectors, is highly regarded, with both sectors subject to ongoing national review and reforms. This paper explores in detail the multiple issues that lie at what might be termed the ‘boundaries and connections’ between these sectors. One marker that delineates...