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Characteristics and Performance Indicators of
Higher Education Institutions
In recent years, interest in performance indicators for the higher education sector has grown both in Australia and in a host of other countries. This interest has been driven by a number of pressures such as:
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to add to the information that prospective local and international students, their parents, school counsellors and others can use in guiding their choice of institution for enrolment;
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for institutions to compare their characteristics and performance against each other to inform future developments in the delivery of education services;
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to illustrate the diversity of higher education institutions; and
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to contribute to public accountability of a large element of Government funds and assist the future development of higher education policies.
The indicators provide a measure of the common features of higher education institutions as well as their diversity. They also reveal a number of aspects of the student experience at higher education institutions and assess the performance of institutions in several areas which are relevant to the core purposes of higher education institutions. Other indicators, particularly those related to the financial performance of institutions, attempt to gauge the resources available to institutions.
There are three major data sources for the performance indicators. The first is the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) Higher Education Students, Staff and Finance Collections. The second source is the DETYA Research Data Collection. The third major source is the Graduate Careers Council of Australia’s (GCCA) annual Graduate Destination Survey (GDS) and Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ).
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This
Time Series has been published on the Internet Only.
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Only the
information for the most current year is available in HTML. All data
for previous years is available via the attached Microsoft Excel
files.
Student indicators
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Students
enrolled, 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
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Actual
student load (equivalent full-time student units - EFTSU) for all
students, 1992-1999 updated (22 August 2001) |
| 03 |
Type of enrolment,
1998 updated (22 August 2001) |
| 04 |
Postgraduate students
as a share of total students, 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
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Overseas students (share of total students
(%)): 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
| 06 |
Non-overseas
HECS liable, fee-paying and non-award student numbers (share of
non-overseas students (%)), 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
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Basis for
admission of non-overseas bachelor pass level commencing students
(%), 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
| 08 |
Median age of
students by type of enrolment, 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
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Equity groups as
a share of non-overseas students (%), 1992-2000 updated (22
August 2001) |
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Female students
as a share of non-overseas students by broad field of study (%),
1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
| 11 |
Number
of broad fields of study in which undergraduate students are
enrolled, 1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
| 12 |
Number
of broad fields of study in which postgraduate students are enrolled,
1992-2000 updated (22 August 2001) |
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Separations-completions ratio for higher degree research students,
1996-1999 updated (22 August 2001) |
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Staff indicators
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Finance indicators
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