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2009 Staff
Full-time and Casual data NOW AVAILABLE

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Issue #11, August 2009

This issue of it figures will look at the implications of the May Federal Budget and reveal figures in many matters, figures to clear the sinuses, and figures to strengthen the synapses. The Good Universities Guide ratings are out and, once again, ANU has achieved well.

Earth Hour - Courtesy Stuart Hay

Good Universities Guide 2010 - ANU rankings

The Good Universities Guide 2010 rankings have once again highlighted ANU's premier national standing in the categories of research intensity, student demand, graduate satisfaction and graduate starting salary.

For seven years in a row, ANU has succeeded in claiming 5 stars for Graduate Starting Salaries. These starting salaries were particularly excellent in Accounting, Business and Management, Law and Humanities and Social Sciences.

The May Federal Budget proposed that the caps on Commonwealth-supported domestic places be lifted in 2012. What will this mean for ANU up until then and then afterwards? MORE >>

This update reveals that the anticipated spike in the number of baby boomers deferring their retirement in the economic downturn has not happened, while our international student now make up 22% of our total student population. MORE >>

Admissions 2010

Over the next 2 months, Fiona Sutherland and Dave Marr from Statistical Services will be visiting College executives to discuss their plans for intakes in 2010.

The Consultative Operations Group (COG) was established in March 2009 to draw together the various staff within the ANU who have a broad insight into planning at ANU. MORE >>

survey results

Every two years the ABS run the national Research and Experimental Development Survey to capture all the research undertaken in Australia. ANU has just submitted its data for 2008. See how that compares to 2006. MORE >>

The latest results of the Australian Graduate Survey show excellent full-time employment outcomes in all disciplines for our domestic bachelor graduates. When compared to the national rates of graduate employment, all ANU disciplines had stronger employment figures. Medicine and Social Sciences performed particularly well with 100% full-time employment rates. MORE >>

Results from the 2008 Course (Program) Experience Questionnaire and the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire show that our students are very satisfied with their programs. Undergraduate and Postgraduate coursework graduates have rated ANU at its highest level in over five years on all scales (Good Teaching, Generic Skills, Intellectual Motivation, Graduate Qualities and Overall Satisfaction) with ratings higher than the Group of Eight and National results. MORE >>

During August, Statistical Services are administering the 2009 Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) to a sample group of undergraduate students. The AUSSE is a survey run by the Australian Council for Educational Research and is designed to gather information about our students' involvement with the University. MORE >>

A sample group of First Year students at ANU have been invited to participate in the 2009 National First Year Experience Questionnaire. This is a survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and has been conducted every five years since 1994. This survey will provide valuable benchmarking information about our first year students, compared to the sector. MORE >>

explore unistats

iMIS now has Higher Degree Research data added to the previously released research data. Two additional reports on HDR supervision are now available.

iMIS staff are working closely with the HR Workforce Planning team to include HR data in the next release. MORE >>

More great news to all you iMIS users! The new Staff homepage now contains a link to the iMIS data warehouse! This will make it both simpler to access and provide a visual reminder of the warehouse for those of you who aren’t yet using it.

The full-time and part-time staff data for 2009 and the Casual staff data for 2008 are now published on Unistats. Design your own historical tables and see the changes over the years.

Pivot Table Training

The next likely training will be in September/October 2009. You can register for the full length course (3 hours) through HORUS (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 the Manager, Statistical Services know.

did you know?

The Bologna Process is named after the Bologna Declaration, which was signed in the Italian city of Bologna on 19 June 1999 by Ministers in charge of higher education from 29 European countries. Ten years down the track, the Process unites 46 European countries in their commitment to the goals of the European Higher Education Area.

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