AUR vol.50, no.1, March 2008
Cover photograph by Skip O'Donnell
In this issue of AUR:
ARTICLES
Golden jubilee
Paul Rodan
Australian Universities Review (formerly Vestes) celebrates 50 years of union academic journal publishing.
The retreat from the critical: social science research in the corporatised university
Margaret Thornton
The commodification of research in the social sciences sees a focus on ‘inputs’ rather than ‘outputs’ and an emphasis on the ‘science’ rather than the ‘social’. The empirical prevails at the expense of the critical, with lessening interest in, and support for, knowledge designed to interrogate orthodoxy. Increasingly, scholars have to operate in a government-created culture of compliance.
Efficiency and effectiveness in higher education: who is accountable for what?
John Kenny
A discussion of the state of tertiary education in
Update on
Tony Winefield, Carolyn Boyd, Judith Saebel and Silvia Pignata
In 2003/4, thirteen Australian universities took part in a follow-up survey of occupational stress, following an earlier one conducted in 2000. This paper presents the cross-sectional data obtained on both occasions as well as the longitudinal data provided by participants of both surveys.
HECS: some missing pieces
Elisa Rose Birch and Paul W Miller
Is HECS working the way it was intended? Is it having undesirable or unanticipated consequences?
Breaking university rules: discipline and indiscipline past and present
Bruce Lindsay
The contemporary forms of university misconduct are symptomatic of a fundamental contradiction in the university-student relationship: between the maintenance of academic order and the market-orientated instrumentalism of university education.
Fat Cat and Friends: which university pays its general staff the best?
REVIEW
Limited space in the ivory tower
A Large and Liberal Education: Higher Education for the 21st Century by Donald Markwell
Review by Alex Millmow