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Report of AUQA Audit due out on 28 Nov 07

Issue #4, November 2007

Last issue for 2007...

This last issue of it figures for 2007 briefly looks at a Go8 background analysis for the election. We see how ANU fared in the league tables: the Commonwealth's Learning and Teaching Performance Fund and the Times rankings for 2007. We also take a bit of a closer look at one of our own staff members.

Feature stories

To help inform the policy debate in this Federal election, Go8 has been offering some background analyses. This background paper looks at the trends in training Australia's future researchers and the trend is looking decidedly down, according to Go8! To see all of the Go8 backgrounders go to: latest news >>

Most lecturers and students are familiar with the ANU’s system for gathering student feedback on teaching and courses. In the last decade demand to gather feedback from students using the ANUSET system (ANU student evaluation of teaching) has increased four-fold. Also, the range of types of teaching and learning, course timing and delivery methods, have all increased. These changes have led to a need for changed processes and different aspects of our students’ experience to be surveyed.

During 2008, CEDAM will introduce an improved system for gathering student feedback on teaching and courses. The new version of ANUSET will substantially improve the ability of teaching areas to gather student feedback and streamline administration by enabling requests for surveys to be made via the web. MORE >>

In our Comparative Figures section (below), we have a look at the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund outcomes for 2007 (BTW - ANU did pretty well again!)

You may well be familiar with the vast array of information that Statistical Services provide on a regular basis either through the website or by way of targetted communication. But you may not be as familiar with the faces behind the scenes. For instance, Leone Nurbasari has recently won a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Innovation and Excellence in Service Quality. MORE >>

Peter Haines (Statistical Services) will join with John Wellard (from Office of the Vice-Chancellor), and Catherine Rayner (Research Office) to form a new 'virtual' team providing a more focussed resource supporting planning and review processes within the ANU. We'll find out more about what this means on the ground in a later issue of it figures.

explore unistats

On a weekly basis, Statistical Services monitor ANU's preferences for 2008 through UAC. You'll need a username and password so just ask if you don't have them. MORE >>

Statistical Services is monitoring higher degree research applications for 2008 (both domestic and international) on a weekly basis. MORE >>

Pivot Table Training

Register on our waiting list with the Information Literacy Program (ILP) for the full length course (3 hours) through ANUBIS (go to "Training Catalogue" and select the Training Code "SSPT01") or see our 30 minute quick on-line self-learn training manual.

There's unlikely to be any formal classes before April 2008. If you'd like some one-on-one or small group training, just let us know.

The Go8 Executive Dashboard has been recently updated. It shows some of the key information for the eight institutions over the past five years (2003-2007) such as: student load; load funding; finance; staff; CEQ results; L&TPF; and research. It's definitely worth a look. MORE >>

comparative figures

On 3 October 2007, the Minister announced which universities will receive funding from the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund in 2008. So how did ANU compare nationally?

• Overall - ANU was placed in the Band A1 group for three of the four discipline areas (it was deemed ineligible for the fourth group). ANU is the only university to have achieved this in both 2006 and 2007.
• Outstanding achievement - The expert panel made special mention of ANU for performing 'exceptionally well' in Discipline Group 1 (Science, Computing, Engineering, Architecture and Agriculture)
• Funding allocations - ANU will receive just over $4 million
• Adjusted scores - these tables provide how the scores were adjusted
• ANU's scores - these tables show the scores for ANU used in determining the allocations

ANU has again been ranked Australia's top university according to the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) Rankings. Overall ANU was ranked 16th in the world for the second year in a row. MORE >>

AUQA has just put on its website a report by Anthony Stella and David Woodhouse called Benchmarking in Australian Higher Education: A Thematic Analysis of AUQA Audit Reports (and thanks to Rob Sheehan from AAIR for this useful link). MORE >>

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