Projecting Continuing Student Enrolments: A Comparison of Approaches
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This paper was first presented at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research, Has institutional research come of age in Australia? in Geelong, 10–12 November 2010. Correspondence to: Rob Aitken, Senior Data Analyst, Planning, Quality and Reporting, Academic and Global Relations Division, The University of Newcastle NSW 2308. E-mail: [email protected] Projecting Continuing Student Enrolments: A Comparison of Approaches
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