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Title

The promotion of teaching excellence in higher education: a comparison of the Australian and New Zealand approaches

Author(s)

Abbott, Malcolm

Abstract

In this paper a comparison is made between the structure and operations of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council and the Ako Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence of New Zealand. Both of these organisations were established in the mid 2000s and were created at a time when higher education institutions in both countries were attempting to increase their research profiles in response to changing funding criteria. Although the two organisations were established for similar reasons they did not operate in quite the same fashion and with the same degree of focus. Instead large differences in the scale of funding has meant that the Australian agency undertakes far more activities than its New Zealand counterpart, although the relative influence of the two bodies in their respective jurisdictions is similar.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Education Research and Perspectives, Vol. 39, no. 1 (2012), pp. 24-41

Publication year

2012

FOR Code(s)

13 Education

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Finance;  Funding;  Government;  Higher education;  New Zealand;  Teaching

Publisher

Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia

ISSN

0311-2543

Publisher URL

http://erpjournal.net/

Copyright

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