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Higher Education Reform Package Commentary Continues AAIR Newsletter September 2017 HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM PACKAGE COMMENTARY CONTINUES See our summaries on PAGE 3 LATEST MUSINGS FROM THE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHER’S BOOK REVIEWS PRESIDENT CORNER INCLUDES … BEYOND PAGE 2 FIVE QUICK QUESTIONS WITH MCDONALDIZATION: VISIONS OF MARTIN HANLON, UTS PAGE 11 HIGHER EDUCATION. PLUS … A RANGE OF INTERSTING REPORTS AND NEW PUBLICATIONS THIS MONTH. SEE PAGE 9-10 2 THE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHER • ISSUE 9/2017 CONTENT From the President Learning and Teaching Positions Vacant and Trainings and Development Editorial Research Trainings, Higher Education Conferences and Events Sector News and Views Reports and Resources Institutional Researcher’s Corner Big Data, Online Learning, On the Move Analytics Graduate Outcomes and Book Reviews Employability FROM THE PRESIDENT LET’S GET A LITTLE BIT SIGGY… As reported in the last newsletter, the I vividly remember the early stages of the If you aren’t part of a SIG but think you 2017 SIG Forum was a great success, but Load Management SIG, as it coincided might like to be involved, or you just what are the SIGs and what happens in with my first involvement with AAIR back want some more information, please visit these groups? A SIG is a special interest around 2009. the SIG page on our website and sign up group organised around a particular topic to our SIG mailing list. We have also talked about the possibility or functional area of mutual interest of a Benchmarking and Ranking SIG, and If you see any gaps in the represented where members of the group discuss a Quality Assurance SIG, but we haven’t SIG topics, and you’d like to propose a topical issues, produce solutions, or just yet progressed these too far. As a not- new SIG that we haven’t covered, please share knowledge. Apparently, the term for-profit organisation run primarily by do not hesitate to get in touch with either was first used in 1961 by the Association volunteers, we rely on the support of me or Don Johnston. We can support for Computing Machinery, which is ‘an members to take on some of these tasks you in establishing a new group by international learned society for and offer these services to our members. offering you advice and assistance to get computing’ that was founded in 1947 – or It is therefore not through lack of it off the ground. so says Wikipedia. interest, but most people just don’t have For AAIR, our SIGS have evolved over the time to devote to what is needed to time, and we have the following active run a SIG. SIGs: If you’re interested in coordinating either • Data Warehousing, Business the Benchmarking and Ranking SIG or Intelligence and Analytics the Quality Assurance SIG and getting • Load Management them off the ground, please contact our • Government Reporting Vice President, Don Johnston by email to [email protected]. • Surveys and Evaluations Each AAIR SIG is organised and lead by I would like to take this opportunity to an AAIR member. thank our outgoing SIG Coordinator, Michael Cudmore (Load Management). From time to time, various members of Thank you for stepping up and Kathie Rabel the organisation have proposed new SIGs embracing the opportunity to increase AAIR President – a notable example was the your involvement with your professional establishment of the Load Management association. SIG, which was spearheaded by Jeff Holmes (who was at the time at QUT). 3 THE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHER • ISSUE 9/2017 universities’ strong global performance could be taken for granted.” SECTOR NEWS AND EDITORIAL Tim Cahill, Associate Director from KPMG VIEWS writes in the Financial Review that, universities can think more creatively about Higher Education Reform Package efficiency: “It is impossible to think about efficiency as a universal measure, and the Welcome to the September 2017 Science, technology, engineering and maths efficiency solution might not be as simple as courses would be hardest hit by the reducing university funding. There are a host edition of The Institutional Government's proposed cuts to university of alternative policy, governance and funding Researcher. funding. New analysis by Universities mechanisms that could be looked at. For Australia has confirmed the STEM disciplines example, given all universities effectively are September has been dominated will take the biggest hit of any field of study if governed by the same regulatory again by the Higher Education the legislation passes, bearing 35% of the mechanisms, there are opportunities for Reform Package. Four months brunt of the $1.2 billion in cuts. Listen to this shared services models across procurement, after being released it finally podcast to find out more. finance, recruitment, reporting and so on”. made its way to the House of Representatives for debate (week Australian Education Minister Simon Don Edgar, foundation director of the starting September 11) with Birmingham has issued a tough warning to Australian Institute of Family Studies calls on much opposition. The legislation universities to focus on efficiency and value us to refocus the education debate and to for money or risk losing public trust and “call out to those who claim having a degree passed the House of goodwill. He said he welcomed new research is an individual luxury. Ask them who is Representatives after two solid from former Australian National University teaching their kids. Who is doing their days of debate and it is now economics and business dean Keith accounts? Who is caring for them in hospitals anticipated t package will be Houghton, which showed that universities and surgeries? Or inventing new technology, debate in the Senate the week had room to boost productivity to more than new jobs, new futures for this country?” After commencing the 16th of October. recoup the $1.2 billion efficiency dividend all, the notion that education is a private Universities Australia has been which the government wants to cut from rather than a public good feeds on a false vocal, as expected, via social and universities over the next four years. dichotomy. It is both, writes Mr Edgar. mainstream media and used the And speaking at the Australian Financial The tit for tat continues as universities were release of the annual OECD Review’s Higher Education Summit on 30 scrutinised for spending big on advertising, Education at a Glance report to August, Simon Birmingham has dismissed marketing and promotions whilst “crying benchmark Australia’s position in vice-chancellors’ opposition to his proposed poor,” writes Stefanie Balogh in The a global higher education market. budget cuts for higher education, saying that Australian on 9 September. As universities universities can find efficiency savings to run a fierce campaign against higher Aside from this, the sector has allow for the shortfall. Birmingham said while education reforms that would impose been busy with plenty of activity university funding has been increasing over efficiency dividends on the sector, it can be internationally, rankings news, recent years, costs have been growing at a revealed they spent $300 million on and we found out a new data slower rate. campaigns, slogans and sponsorship last year visualisation technique via the while competing for domestic and use of Data Comics. If you are In Commentary from Carlton, Andrew Norton international students, staff and research interested, the Emerging Genre asked: Has the demand driven system largely partners. The spending was $30m more than achieved its objectives? Norton adds that the in 2015, an increase of 11 per cent. Andrew of Data Comics published by IEEE 40 per cent attainment target “itself shows Norton (via Twitter) reminded them that 1 Computer Graphics and that long-term planning is difficult ... It would per cent of revenue on promotional spending Applications is a good starting not be sensible to try to push enrolments up is “not excessive for unis in competitive point. just to meet the target. It would be better for markets”. enrolments to stabilise or decline (they have The Editors have been fortunate grown slowly since 2014)”. And as we get ready to publish the again to snag a rather excellent September newsletter, the Turnbull interview for the Institutional Margaret Gardner, Chair of Universities government’s $2.8 billion higher education Researcher’s Corner – Martin Australia, has warned that universities may reforms are expected to head to the Senate Hanlon from UTS. And, there is be at risk of collapse if the government’s after the changes were on track to pass their the usual selection of books, funding cuts go ahead. “A number of first parliamentary hurdle in the lower house. Education Minister Simon Birmingham will resources and reports. institutions in higher and vocational education will be at greater risk, creating need the support of 10 of the 12 Senate Happy Reading. uncertainty for their staff and students, the crossbenchers if the Coalition is to be communities they serve and the markets in successful in its third attempt at reining in Tracy and Monica which they operate,” said Professor Gardner. higher education costs and making the sector The risk was that federal policy would more sustainable. assume the sector could “always be made to wear cuts, that overseas student revenue Other news would cover any shortfall, and that our 4 THE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHER • ISSUE 9/2017 As noted in the Editorial, the release of the Graduate Outcomes and Employability engineering and computer science faculty 2017 OECD Education at a Glance Report has section. Media outlets summarised outcomes and run by Genevieve Bell, who has recently been used by the sector to highlight the around employment outcomes and graduate joined ANU from Intel. value of education and the comparative rates salaries. other countries invest. Writing for The Student surveys Conversation, Megan O’Connell from the In his keynote address to the Australian Mitchell Institute argues that spending more Financial Review Higher Education Summit, In the UK the weighting of the National money on education does not necessarily Navitas CEO Rod Jones said that major Student Survey (NSS) in their Teaching yield better student outcomes.
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