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Stuteville, Rebekkah; Click, Eric – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
The acceptance of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as a legitimate form of scholarly investigation and the shape that it takes in post-secondary education are inherently discipline-specific. This paper examines how the character and heritage of public administration influence the acceptance of SoTL, and the form that it takes. It…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Practices, Educational Trends
Hickey, Andrew; Pauli-Myler, Tanya – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This paper charts the experiences of a group of young people and their involvement in a local government initiative to engage young people in public decision-making. Activated through a youth leaders' council that sought to influence and inform local government decision-making, the participating young people were given responsibility for enacting…
Descriptors: Youth Leaders, Local Government, Participative Decision Making, Public Officials
Dawkins, Roger – Open Learning, 2019
I am a lecturer with professional marketing experience, and this study was motivated by my dismay at university about what I have perceived as oversights in colleagues' typical use of mass email (emailing a single message to a large group of subscribers) for content delivery, in comparison to the communication strategies of major industries (for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Strategies, Electronic Mail, Business Communication
Gekara, Victor; Snell, Darryn; Molla, Alemayehu; Karanasios, Stan; Thomas, Amanda – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and automation are transforming the world of work. Developing the appropriate digital skills in the workforce is an important component in Australia's effort to compete in this rapidly emerging global digital economy. This research explores the current digital skills demand-and-supply…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Labor Supply, Transportation, Safety
Henman, Paul; Brown, Scott D.; Dennis, Simon – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
In 2015, the Australian Government's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment of research quality declined to rate 1.5 per cent of submissions from universities. The public debate focused on practices of gaming or "coding errors" within university submissions as the reason for this outcome. The issue was about the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Universities, Achievement Rating
Eacott, Scott; Norris, Judith – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
On an international scale, public administration is undergoing considerable restructuring as principles of private enterprise are becoming the orthodoxy. At the same time, economic instability (or crisis) is gripping both national and global financial markets, suggesting a flaw in the system or even that capitalism has reached it limits. Crises in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership
Newman, Joshua – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
Academic integrity matters are relevant to all areas of university teaching, but they are of particular importance to degree programmes whose graduates intend to work in the public service. While a large body of scholarship exists on academic integrity, very little has been written that specifically relates to students who intend to pursue careers…
Descriptors: Integrity, Public Administration Education, Prevention, Plagiarism
Keough, Mark – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
A common complaint from business and industry is that employees entering the workforce are not "job ready." They often lack the practical skills, maturity, and workplace experience to perform well in their roles, leaving employers to fill the gap by providing training either at their own expense or with public funding. In contrast, a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fire Science Education, Fire Protection, Volunteer Training
Carole, Hooper – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: Soon after its establishment in 1863, the Board of Education -- the body responsible for administering public education in Victoria -- determined that a system of universal mixed (coeducational) schooling would be adopted in the colony. Existing single-sex departments were "encouraged", or compelled, to amalgamate, and no new…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Secondary School Students, Educational History
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Lofgren, Hans – Australian Library Journal, 1998
Examines implications of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) to Victoria (Australia) public libraries and the revision or abandonment of previously dominant ideals of public administration. Topics include the role of government; public services as a competitive market environment; economic rationalism; and the threat to the…
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System
Administrative Scale Economies in Public Organisations: Evidence from Australian Public Universities
Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung; Dollery, Brian – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
A voluminous empirical literature has examined scale economies in public organisations, particularly in local government. By contrast, little effort has been directed at the empirical investigation of economies of scale in higher education administration, including in Australian universities. To address this gap in the empirical literature, this…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
Freeman, Andrew R. – 1984
In this thesis, consideration is given to the interrelationships between a number of key concepts (devolution, decentralization, participation, consultation, coordination, and networking) and reports in educational and general public administration which have been produced over the last decade. Networking is the interconnecting concept. In the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coordination, Data Processing, Decentralization
Western Australia Post Secondary Education Commission, Nedlands. – 1984
Information is presented on current management education courses offered in Western Australia, based on a survey conducted by the Management Education Advisory Group. These management education courses include both undergraduate and graduate courses that cover public administration and educational administration. Four tables provide the following…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration Education, College Programs, Course Descriptions
Warhurst, John – 1986
Public administration, long considered a poor relation of political science in Australian academic circles, has recently been revitalized by a new concentration in public policy studies. This paper summarizes the efforts of 10 Australian universities to develop public policy degree programs, describes University of New England's new program, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Haigh, Yvonne – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
This paper draws on nine years of undergraduate student course evaluation surveys to explore learning and teaching practices in an introductory public policy course in Australia. The paper situates student responses in terms of an increasingly complex teaching and learning environment. The student cohort includes a diverse group of arts, law,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Public Policy, Public Administration Education