Papers from the 1979 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, whose theme was the promotion of higher education research and development, are presented. Specific topics were staff development in higher education, field experience, assessment and evaluation, teaching methods and curriculum design, and the tertiary student. Papers and authors are as follows: "The Changing Student" (Malcolm Skilbeck); "Research in Adult Education" (Barrie Brennan); "Staff Development for Experience-Based Learning" (Dave Boud and John Pascoe); "European Approaches to Staff Development" (Dietrich Brandt); "Preventing Industrial Conflict in Higher Education" (Tom M. Heffernan); "Intervention and Staff Development" (Ray McAleese); "Learning in General Practice--The Newcastle Experience" (Sandy Reid); "Group Medicine" (Andrew Hill); "Student Response to Continuous Assessment, Examination Format and Peer Marking" (John Coulson); "Evaluation of a Comprehensive Programme for Student Assessment" (Grahame I. Feletti and Graham Colditz); "The Adaptation of Flanders Interaction Analysis to Evaluation of University Teaching" (Heinz-Otto Gralki); "Evaluating an Educational Inservice Program" (Jacqueline Lublin); "The Management of Client Relationships in Instructional Design" (John Hedberg); "Scientific Enquiry in University Laboratory Classes" (Elizabeth H. Hegarty); "Visual Analogies in Higher Education" (Deane W. Hutton); "Curriculum Evaluation in Higher Education: Self Reflection in a Critical Community" (Stephen Kemmis and Clare Hughes);"Self Selecting Mature Age Students" (Allan Pitman); "Student Attitudes at a New and Old University" (J. S. Western and Ernest Roe); and summary of nonformal conference activities (Roger Landbeck). (SW)