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To access your membership details, login to Zappala, J & Lombard, M 1991, ‘The decline of Australian the members’ area at www.nteu.org.au. educational salaries’, Australian Bulletin of Labour, 17(1), pp. 76–95. vol. 52, no. 2, 2010 Published by NTEU ISSN 0818–8068 Australian Universities’ Review 3 Letter from the editor 49 The balance between merit and equity in Ian R Dobson academic hiring decisions: Judgemental content analysis applied to the phraseology of ARTICLES Australian tenure-stream advertisements Gregory J Boyle, David L Neumann, John J Furedy, H 5 Clothing the emperor: Addressing the issue Rae Westbury & Magnus Reiestad of English language proficiency in Australian The wording of university academic job advertisements can reflect a universities commitment to equity as opposed to academic merit in hiring deci- Katie Dunworth sions, but administrators need to be sensitive to this balance. There are fundamental issues about the nature, measurement and 56 Short-changed: The plight of US universities in development of student English language proficiency that need to be the age of economic instability, or around the addressed if universities are to build on those principles for good bend: The University of California in the present practice to make systemic and sustainable progress. age 11 Hegemony, big money and academic John S Levin independence With a US$800 million budget shortfall, the University of California Tim Anderson has chosen to maintain its preeminent position among US public uni- Is a threat posed to academic independence in corporate universi- versities. This article examines the conditions for this choice and the ties by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney? impending outcomes. 18 Cracking the code: Assessing institutional OPINION compliance with the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research 64 Researcher engagement and research Suzanne E Morris integrity in Australia A review of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Andrew Crowden Research institutional authorship policies and their compliance. A response to Margaret Lindorff’s Call for Papers about Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) processes (AUR vol. 52, no. 1). 27 Rates of student disciplinary action in Australian universities 66 Workload determination - an essay in applied Bruce Lindsay ethics This paper provides baseline, quantitative data on disciplinary Peter Davson-Galle action against students in the universities: rates that are not insig- An exercise in applied ethics on the topic of determining work- nificant given the effort and resources dedicated to dealing with loads in academia. misconduct and the numbers of students affected. 72 Reach for the Stars 33 Gender and shifts in higher education Arthur O’Neill managerial regimes: examples from Portugal An analysis of Australian university newspaper advertisements and Teresa Carvalho & Maria de Lurdes Machado the self-promoting marketing devices employed in the marketing As higher education