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Issue #7, August 2008There's always some figures you haven't seen... it figures!In this issue we take a peek at the Group of Eight's new look website; there's good news from our government coffers; what destination our graduates?; one of our graduates takes home an IPAQ. And the countdown to the launch of iMIS has commenced! Feature storiesAnother happy winner of the ANU AGS Prize DrawIt was Yosep's lucky day! From over 1,100 graduates to have completed the Australian Graduate Survey (AGS), he was randomly drawn as the winner of the IPAQ personal organiser/pocket PC. The photo below shows Yosep receiving his prize from ANU's Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lawrence Cram.  iMIS - ready for launch!Well it's probably one of the most awaited launches of the year... the University's new Integrated Management Information System, iMIS. A prototype of the Research Performance module was launched on 31 July with the next release due on 15 September. More >> New website for the Group of EightFor those of you who are interested in comparative Group of Eight (Go8) benchmarking and statistics, the Go8 have expanded their capacity to collect and analyse data. Alan Mackay and Helen Montesin are putting together a range of measurements from DEEWR, OECD and the ABS. More >> Government budgets give funding for ANUAs part of the Federal Government's May budget, the ANU is to receive some of Julia Gillard's Education Revolution dollars (they're the type of 'figures' we like; ones with $s in front of them). And the ACT government, not long after, followed the Feds with some monies of their own. MORE >> AAIR Seminar :: 'Writing an Academic Paper'The Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR) is holding a one-day seminar titled 'Writing an Academic Paper' on 18 November as a prelude to their Annual Forum which is being held in Canberra from 19-21 November. MORE >> explore unistatsWhat destination our graduates?The 2007 summary results from the Graduate Destination Survey are now available from the Unistats website. These include: Full-time occupations by Major; Employment Rates by Discipline; Median Salaries by Discipline; and Employment and Study Outcomes by Discipline with national benchmarks. These have been compiled from Graduate Careers Australia's own summary data. MORE >> Admissions Reporting now on Alliance websiteThe pivot table reports for Direct and HDR admissions are now available only via restricted access to the Alliance website. To be become an authorised user of this site, you will need to contact Leone Nurbasari in Statistical Services. Follow the Weekly Enrolment MonitoringStatistical services provides a weekly overview of the student enrolment figures as they currently stand for each of the student categories e.g. domestic vs international; postgraduate and undergraduate; commencing and continuing. MORE >> Pivot Table Training - 19, 21 and now 22 August!Due to overwhelming demand, we have opened another session on Friday morning 22 August. You can register 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. If you'd like some one-on-one or small group training, just let us know. What's planned for Unistats in the next few monthsOver the next month or so a number of reports will be updated. The 2007 Statistics Summary Card will be published. This will show a broad summary of the key statistics for 2007 with respect to students, staff, research and finances. |
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it figures is distributed via email. If you have difficulties with the links, visit unistats.anu.edu.au/itfigures to read the online version. |
