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Higher Education report for the 2001 to 2003 triennium

Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs

The Hon. Dr David Kemp MP

 


© Commonwealth of Australia 2000

ISSN: 1442-7680
ISSN: 1443-6000 (Online version)
DETYA No. 6641HERC00A


Contents

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1 Overview
2 Quality Assurance
2.1 Quality assurance framework
2.2 New elements of the framework
2.3 Diversification of Australia’s international education and training focus
2.4 International recognition of qualifications
2.5 Australian Universities Teaching Committee
3 Prudential Assurance
3.1 University financial statements
3.2 Summary of key findings
3.3 Financial projections
3.4 Commonwealth funding for higher education
4 Teaching and Learning
4.1 Equity
4.2 HECS—the Higher Education Contribution Scheme and fees
4.3 Operating and related grants
4.4 Capital Development Pool funding
4.5 HEIP—the Higher Education Innovation Programme
4.6 EIP—the Evaluations and Investigations Programme
5 Research and Research Training
5.1 Research Training Scheme
5.2 Research Quantum
5.3 Research Infrastructure Block Grants
5.4 Access of the Institute of Advanced Studies to research funding programmes
5.5 Research and research training management reports
5.6 Higher degree research student enrolments and completions
5.7 Funding research and research training
5.8 Funding the Learned Academies, the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board and other organisations
Appendix A
Higher education cost adjustment factors—levels
Appendix B
Research and research training management reports guidelines
Appendix C
Programmes—projects and schemes
Appendix D
Map—University access
Appendix E
Map—University access (capital cities)
Appendix F
Map—University access (insets)
Appendix G
Institutions and campuses
References

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Vignettes

Chapter 2
V1 Graduate attributes
V2 GradStats
V3 Graduate Skills Assessment
V4 Protecting the interests of overseas students in Australia
V5 Innovative practices
V6 Australian Universities Teaching Committee (AUTC) projects
Chapter 3
V7 Activity based costing in universities
V8 Commercialisation
V9 Universities’ 2000 annual financial reports
Chapter 4
V10 Enabling programme
V11 Breaking the bandwidth bottleneck
V12 Difference between metropolitan and non-metropolitan participation
V13 Information Technology and Communications (ITC) initiatives
V14 Indigenous higher education centres
V15 Master of applied epidemiology (Indigenous health), Australian National University
V16 Workplace reform
V17 Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation
V18 Enterprise education
V19 Science lectureships initiative
V20 Tall poppies
V21 Beyond borderless education
V22 Information technology and physical infrastructure planning
Chapter 5
V23 Research Commercialisation and Innovation

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Figures

1.1 The Australian education system and its qualifications
1.2 Non-overseas student places 1995–2001
1.3 Total higher education revenue 1995–1999 (actual) and 2000–2003 (estimated)
 
2.1 The Australian Quality Assurance Framework
 
3.1 Safety margin
3.2 Current ratio
3.3 External borrowing
3.4 Cash and investments
3.5 Net capital expenditure
3.6 Revenue and expenditure
3.7 Sources of revenue—trend analysis
3.8 Sources of revenue—contribution analysis
3.9 Revenue from full-fee paying overseas students
3.10 Expenditure analysis
 
4.1 Equity groups in higher education, 1995–1999
4.2 Commencing Indigenous students, 1989–1999, and award course completions by Indigenous students, 1988–1998
4.3 Access to higher education by people from low SES postcodes, 1999
4.4 Students from rural and isolated backgrounds in higher education, 1991–1999
4.5 HECS liabilities and operating grants, 1991–2003
4.6 Repayments and Commonwealth contribution as a percentage of the HECS special account, 1990–1991 to 2002–2003
4.7 Average fees per EFTSU for undergraduate and postgraduate non-overseas fee-paying students by broad field of study, 2000

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Figures in Vignettes

FV1 Full-time employment rate for new graduates available for full-time employment, 1982–2000
FV2 Graduates’ median starting salaries relative to average weekly earnings, 1978–2000
FV3 Overall satisfaction with courses, 1993–2000
FV4 60 per cent ranges for test scores by area of study

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Tables

1.1 Some indicators of the diversity of the Australian higher education system
 
2.1 All overseas students by country of permanent home residence, 2000
2.2 Australian awards for university teaching, 2000—Individual awards
2.3 Australian awards for university teaching, 2000—Institutional awards
3.1 Liquidity and financial stability measures
3.2 Commonwealth funding available for higher education 2000–2003
 
4.1 Equity groups in higher education, 1999
4.2 Proportion of performance funds for equity target groups
4.3

Higher Education Equity Programme, 2001 allocation

4.4 Indigenous Support Funding, 2001–2003 allocations
4.5 How students pay HECS, 1989–1990 to 2003–2004
4.6 HECS payment option by type of enrolment (EFTSU), 1998–2000
4.7 HECS remission cases, 1999–2000
4.8 EFTSU fee-paying status by course level, 1998–2000
4.9 EFTSU for fee-paying non-overseas students by broad field of study and level of course, 2000
4.10 Institutional performance, 2000
4.11 Commonwealth fully-funded places and operating grants, 2001–2003
4.12 Commonwealth fully funded places, 2001–2003
4.13 Operating grant, Research Quantum and Research Training Scheme 2001
4.14 Medical rural bonded-scholarships by institution
4.15 Teaching hospital grants, 2001–2003
4.16 Capital Development Pool, 2001–2003 allocations
4.17 Higher Education Innovation Programme grants, 2000
4.18 Evaluations and Investigations Programme grants, 2000
4.19 Variations to Evaluations and Investigations Programme grants previously reported
4.20 Evaluations and Investigations Programme, 2000 publications
 
5.1 Research Training Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.2 Composite Index components, 2001
5.3 Research Quantum, 2001 allocation
5.4 Research Infrastructure Block Grants Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.5 IAS contributions to research schemes
5.6 Higher degree research enrolments and completions, 1991–2000
5.7 Commencing and all higher degree research enrolments by institution, 1993 and 2000
5.8 Higher degree research enrolments by broad field of study, 1993 and 2000
5.9 Higher degree research completions by broad field of study, 1993 and 1999
5.10 Small Research Grants Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.11 Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.12 International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS) Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.13 New Research Fellowships commencing in 2001, by type and institution
5.14 Indigenous Researchers Development Scheme grants, 2001 allocation
5.15 Large Grants, 2001–2003 allocations
5.16 SPIRT Scheme grants with industry partner contributions, 2001 allocations
5.17 SPIRT Australian Postgraduate Awards (Industry), 2001 allocation
5.18 Special Research Centres, 2001 allocation
5.19 Key Centres of Teaching and Research, 2001 allocation
5.20 International Researcher Exchange Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.21 Learned Academies Special Projects, 2001
5.22 Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Scheme, 2001 allocation
5.23 Grants-in-aid, 2000–2003

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Tables in Vignettes

TV1 Differences between average non-metropolitan and metropolitan participation rates
TV2 Funding under the Workplace Reform Programme

 

 

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