Drastic changes proposed for Australian higher education

A Proposed Data Mining Framework for Higher Education System

Educational data mining is concerned with the development methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from the educational context. Furthermore, educational data mining is an emerging discipline that concerned with the developing methods for exploring the unique types of data that come from the educational context. This study focuses on the way of applying data mining techniques fo...

A Proposed Model for Evaluating Modular Education

Introduction: Educational evaluation is one of the main elements of educational systems. It also has a particular role in different educational standards such as ISO 10015. It seems that oral and written examinations are not enough for an effective evaluation of instructions. In order to accomplish an efficient educational evaluation, an evaluation model was designed for educational assessment ...

Retaining students in Australian higher education: cultural capital, field distinction

In the global phenomenon of widening participation policy in higher education, lower retention rates for students from less advantaged socio-economic circumstances have potential to undermine the social inclusion agenda of HE. This might be an issue in Europe but is not necessarily the case elsewhere. In this paper we consider statistical data on Australian university students from underreprese...

Setting and Monitoring Academic Standards in Australian Higher Education

Submission to the review of Australian higher education

The paper takes as its starting point the observation in the discussion paper that higher education can enhance social inclusion and reduce social and economic disadvantage by deepening our understanding of health and social issues and by providing access to higher levels of learning to people from all backgrounds (Commonwealth of Australia, 2008b: 1). The paper argues that the current Australi...