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Transnational higher education is play- ing a major role in the economic, cultural and social development 5 Going to university: Pacific Island migrant of the Arab Gulf States perspectives Michael Cuthill and Sue Scull OPINION An examination of university access through the specific eyes of migrants from the Pacific Islands 84 Preparation and aspiration: access to higher education for working class students 14 Pinnacle: Evaluation of the Graduate Teacher Heather Brook Training Programme at the ANU It’s a long way to the top... Aditi Barthwal, Diane Chenoweth, Cathy Day, Meredith Hughes, Elizabeth Kirk, Simon Kitson, 89 An interrupted pathway Taweetham Limpanuparb, Penelope Marshall & John Dee Michell Shellard ...when you want to rock ‘n’ roll! Teacher training for PhD students: what a good idea! 94 Looking back into the future 21 Lessons from a student engagement study: benefits for students and academics Arthur O’Neill & Bob Speechley Robert Errey & Glen Wood What’s been did and what’s been hid! (And more). A study from the University of Ballarat demonstrates the benefit of 100 We’ll support you ever more! having students who are ‘engaged’. Joseph Gora 35 A ten year citation analysis of Australian I wish to register a complaint....this time about university rankings research institutions 102 The English language growth project – an Robin J Batterham introduction Australian biomedical researchers punch above their weight! Judith Rochecouste, Rhonda Oliver, Denise Mulligan 42 Supporting and evaluating transitional learning and Martin Davies for international university students REVIEWS Alison Owens How to help international students to help themselves. 105 Vote 1 – the clever country Why knowledge matters in curriculum – a socialist realist argu- 50 On being a happy academic ment by Leesa Wheelahan. Brian Martin Review by Neil Mudford Happy staff are better staff! Everyone should invest in happiness. 107 The Real Education Revolution 57 The new ERA of journal ranking: the consequences of Australia’s fraught encounter Private Schooling in Less Economically Developed Countries: with ‘quality’. Asian and African Perspectives Oxford Studies in Comparative Education, by Prachi Srivastava & Simon Cooper & Ann Poletti Geoffrey Walford (eds). Another report about ‘quality’ with a Capital ‘K’. Why can’t our gov- ernments and agencies get it right? Review by