HE Response to Change in Australia

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HE Response to Change in Australia

• A China-Australia Shadowing Program Seminar
  Discussion
• Professor Brian Stoddart

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Consequences of the Reforms

• Rapid increase in student numbers
• Small increase in staff numbers
• Declining per head funding
• Increased systemic demands

• Greater accountability
• Increased administrative requirements
• Increased need for diversified income
• More focussed thinking about the future

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Planning and Strategy

• Budget and resource thinking
• Setting longer term goals
• Thinking about risk
• Thinking about strengths.
• and about weaknesses
• Differentiation

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The Impact Upon Research

• Identifying areas of strength and emerging
  strength
• Diversifying income
• Developing staff
• Strengthening postgraduate work
• Changes outside the university system
• Commercialisation

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Impact Upon Teaching Learning

• Revisiting the student experience
• Improving teaching
• Evaluation
• Recognition and rewards for staff
• Modes of delivery

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Audit, Compliance and QA

• Proving and improving what we do
• External inquiry AUQA
• Benchmarking
• The resource question
• Greater accountability to government/s
• A better paper trail

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What Might Lie Ahead?

• Increased links between funding and evaluation
• More differentiation
• More internationalisation
• More pressure
• More competition