Issues in selective admissions in Australia and especially in Victoria are reviewed. Administrative and policy issues are analyzed and some of the consequences of an imbalance between supply and demand are addressed. (MLW)

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)

A discussion of recent British experiences and policy concerning the recruitment of foreign students looks at a 1979 policy decision about international student fees, institutional response, overseas marketing efforts, and the resulting foreign student population and its problems, and proposes directions for institutions, public agencies, and…

A discussion of strategies marketing in higher education focuses on the social marketing approach, outlining a conceptual framework, and looking at specific concerns and costs. The issue of entrepreneurialism's effect on higher education institutions is considered. (MSE)

Australian public universities have responded to market forces in faculty appointment, deregulation of faculty outside earnings, exploitation of intellectual property, creation of entrepreneurial structures, promotion criteria, research vs. teaching priorities, measurement of teaching efficiency, course offerings, meeting the overseas market, and…

The history of academic unions in Australia is reviewed, and it is argued that institutional and union leaders are more likely to succeed in stopping decline in higher education by cooperative efforts to influence governments than by the existing pattern of inter-sectoral or employer-employee rivalry. (MSE)

Innovation can be as much a matter of process and content as of structure. Innovation in Australian higher education will be necessary in the next few years, but without the growth or structural change that usually accompanies it. (MSE)

Aspects of higher education that differ in Australia and North America are highlighted, including government's role, governance, institutional advancement activities, the president's role, faculty, program design, and students. (MSE)

Higher education institutions in Australia are cautioned against placing too much emphasis in admissions on previous academic performance, whose predictive validity is questioned, and too little emphasis on other important factors relating to equity in the selection process and to educational supply and demand. (MSE)

The University of Tasmania's Computing Policy Committee's efforts to introduce technological change at the institution in a rapid and controlled manner in the last five years are described, and the likely progress of information technology and its impact on higher education institutions are discussed. (MSE)

Resource allocation is a key factor in promoting or retarding innovation. In a restrictive economic climate, it is easy to use resource allocation for decremental rationing and to stifle innovative thinking. The technique can also be used to ensure that the institution's human resources are encouraged to identify opportunities for innovation. (MSE)

Examples of international interinstitutional collaboration in instructional material development and exchange in Canada and Hong Kong are described. Considerations in establishing such collaborative arrangements are outlined, including organizational and technical issues such as support and copyrights. (MSE)

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)

Issues in the ownership of academic research results and the relationship of industry to the academic institution performing research it has funded are examined and summarized in five paradoxes. (MSE)