Mapping government reforms in quality against higher education theory : is the relationship symbiotic? / Lyn Alderman

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Author	ALDERMAN, Lyn
Title	Mapping government reforms in quality against higher education theory : is the relationship symbiotic? / Lyn Alderman
Publication year	2016
Source/Footnote	In: Quality in higher education. - 22 (2016) 3, S. 197 - 212
Inventory number	45307
Keywords	Ausland : Australien : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein
Abstract	In Australia, a review of the higher education sector is usually triggered by a change in government leadership, followed by the development and implementation of the governments response in the form of a reform package to enact change. The aim of this study was to conduct an independent evaluation of a large-scale national government policy implementation. This article concludes that the 2003 Government Reform Package was successful in bringing attention to learning and teaching practice in the Australian higher education sector through three national initiatives: (1) Learning and Teaching Performance Fund; (2) Australian Learning and Teaching Council; (3) Australian Universities Quality Agency. These initiatives were implemented with the full delivery of the initial funding cycle, each initiative applied a different model of quality and these models were found to be aligned to Biggs theoretical model of teaching and learning and to have a symbiotic relationship. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)