The promotion of quality and innovation in higher education : advice of the Higher Education Council on the use of discretionary funds
- Bib ID:
- 895118
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Higher Education Council (Australia)
- Description:
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- Canberra : Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1995
- xiv, 59 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0644360364 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The amount of discretionary funds available to the higher education sector will be significantly reduced from this year until the 1998-99 financial year so that by 1999 the available resources will represent only about 40% of the total budget in 1994-95 for quality assurance and the National Priority (Reserve) Fund. This advice represnts the Higher Education Council's views on the most appropriate use of these funds for the remainder of this decade and presents a possible set of objectives for future quality and innovation initiatives.
It is the council's view that future discretionary funding should consist of the following three major componets: a national quality assurance process that will promote improvement and development in the sector; an innovation and enhancement program that will have a major emphasis on teaching but will be more outcome-focused and operate within the framework of the quality process; and a reserve fund which can be used to address areas where systemic change is needed due to the changing environment, or to address matters of national significance.
This advice discusses various options for the management of a program with these three major funding component. The preferred model proposes a role for the Higher Education Council in which it advises the Minister through the National Board of Employment, Education and Training on priorities and on appropriate balance of resources between the major components of the discretionary budget. The council recommends the establishment of a Committee for Quality Improvement which would report through the council and the National Board to the Minister and be responsible for a two-phase national quality audit across the sector on a three-yearly cycle.
This quality process would provide additional resources to intitutions for quality improvement initatives described in a comprehensive quality improvement plan. Progress towards the goals set in this plan would be monitored in the quality review process, and financial allocations made on the basis of satisfactor performance. A teaching enhancement advisory group is also propose, which would use the name of the Committee for the Advancement of University Teaching, to capitalise on the currency established in the sector by that committee during the last three years.
The role of this committee would be narrower than its present brief, and would focus on the conduct of a submission-based program similar to the current national teaching development grants but with greater emphasis on the award of a smaller number of larger grants. The Higher Education Council would be responsibility for coordinating the objectives and priorities of these two groups and for liaising with the Department of Employment, Education and Training over systemic evaluation projects currently conducted through its Evaluations and Investigations Program
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background
- Historical allocations
- 2.2. Objectives of components of the program
- 2.3. Management processess
- 2.4. Effectiveness of the program
- 3. The future discretionary funds program
- 3.1. Funding levels
- 3.2. Issues
- 3.3. Nature and objectives of the program
- 4. Quality
- 4.1. International review
- 4.2. Issues raised in submissions
- 4.3. Objectives of the future quality assurance process
- 4.4. Nature of the process
- 4.5. Future priority areas
- 5. Teaching enhancement and innovation
- 5.1. Context
- 5.2. Issues raised in submissions
- 5.3. Objectives
- 5.4. Structure and process
- 6. Ministerial discretionary reserve
- 6.1. Contect
- 6.2. Ministerial discretionary reserve
- 7. Evaluation
- 7.1. Context
- 7.2. Evaluations and Investigations program
- 7.3. Coordination arrangements for evaluation
- 8. Coordination and priority setting
- 8.1. Linkages between components of the program
- 8.2. Process
- 8.3. Options
- 8.4. Recomended model
- 8.5. Funding balance
- 9. Timing and transition
- appendix 1. Reference
- appendix 2. Submissions and consultations
- appendix 3. National Priority (Reserve) Fund priority areas 1989-1995
- - appendix 4. Comparisons of quality assurance mechanisms in place in selected overseas countrie. Û National Board
- Notes:
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- Cat. no. 95 13043.
- "November 1995".
- At head of title: National Board of Employment, Education and Training.
- Bibliography: p. 59.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australia. National Board of Employment, Education and Training
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- Commonwealth of Australia 1995.
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