The structure of tertiary education is described and the meaning of continuing education as used in England and Wales is clarified. The dilemma between the conflicting demands of financial constraints and academic standards is discussed. The English and Welsh experience is compared to the Australian. (MLW)

The issues confronting Australian tertiary institutions in the assessment of non-English-speaking-background students are discussed. A survey of tertiary institutions that identified test instruments currently being used is described and some of these test instruments (SST and CULT tests) are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Three models of academic governance are compared, and the importance of conflict in academic institutions is examined with reference to Australian colleges of advanced education. Sources and effects of conflict, methods of coping with them, and attitudes toward conflict are discussed. (Author/MSE)

The advantages and disadvantages of college mergers are examined in the context of Australia's experience, and the opportunities offered by cooperative rather than adversarial change are emphasized. (MSE)

Extensive organizational changes made in an Australian university during a period of 10 years are discussed, including the issues of the government's role in forcing a merger, other forces in higher education, funding, administrative change, educational reorientation, and conflicts and resistance within the institution. (MSE)

Australian government policy designed to achieve wider access to postsecondary education is outlined, and two different responses from the higher education community are compared. Strategies for developing student recruitment and admission policies and practices based on access goals are suggested. (MSE)

The implications of recent social changes for the social responsibility of higher education institutions are examined, and it is argued that institutions should initiate change rather than have it forced on them, but must find a balance between social responsibility and educational values. (MSE)

The increase in appointments of scientists as vice chancellors of higher education institutions in Australia since 1963 is examined in the context of declining science enrollments and the accepted pattern of scientific research and teaching. (MSE)

A mathematical model for costing college courses, designed for purposes of accountability, subprogram cost analysis, marketing to foreign students (in Australia), and course cost analysis across institutions, is presented and discussed. (MSE)

Enrollment trends in secondary and higher education in Australia are examined for indications of the direction and possible need for redirection of higher education policy and institutional planning. (MSE)

The implications of social change for the role and problems of educational coordinating bodies in Australian postsecondary education are explored, drawing on the experience of the Queensland Board of Advanced Education. (MSE)

Budgeting and resource allocation systems that work for one institution may not work well for another. Each institution's procedures should meet its specific requirements and characteristics, even when that means adapting or drawing on other systems. (MSE)

Most North American institutions have developed valuable institutional research capabilities. Consensus about some issues of institutional research has not yet been reached, but the work, either using existing databases or obtaining new data, helps the institutions know themselves better and is worth supporting. (MSE)

The attitudes of South Australian university personnel managers concerning the relationship between personnel offices' roles and certain factors such as funding, government legislation, the needs of senior academics and administrators, general staff's perceived needs, and trade unions are outlined and discussed. (MSE)

The methods used by Indonesia's New Order government to regulate the civic activities of university staff and students in the government sector are discussed in the context of the government's pursuit of stability and economic growth, and the possible directions to be taken by the bureaucratic government are examined. (MSE)