Digital copying and the statutory licences in Australian universities

Environmental Constraints Management in Digital Right Licences

In the past years, Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been used in order to control media’s resources usage, for instance for the consumers. Several proposals have been made in order to define what kind of controls one could apply and how to apply them. It has also been proposed more recently to use DRM mechanisms in the enterprises (EDRM), not to control media’s resources usage but to protect...

Liquor licences issued to Australian schools

BACKGROUND Children's positive socialisation to alcohol is associated with early initiation of drinking and alcohol-related harm in adult life. Internationally, there have been reports of adults' alcohol consumption at school events in the presence of children. The aim of this research was to identify the conditions under which Australian schools are required to apply for a liquor licence and t...

How Australian universities fund the student experience

Developing female middle managers in Australian universities

Universities should be developing female middle-managers for reasons of gender balance (Aitkin 2001), the skills shortage, pending mass retirements (Chesterman 2004) and sustainable, postbureaucratic organizations (Kira and Forslin 2008). Investigating the learning and development of women managers is timely. Research assumes that women in academe have the qualifications, experience and skills ...

Is there Cultural Safety in Australian Universities?

This paper examines the cultural safety offered to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students within their university environments. In the context of this paper, cultural safety includes cultural competency, as recently subscribed by Universities Australia, and ‘extends beyond (to) cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity’ (Bin Sellik, 2003, p. 210) and includes putting in pla...