This article examines the effects, if any, of the Asian financial crisis and the 'Hanson' factor on the number of international students wishing to study in Australia. The Asian financial crisis does seem to have impacted on foreign student numbers, with ELICOS (English language short courses)...

Finnish universities are about to enter a period of radical change. This paper considers the reforms expected of a new Universities Act currently before parliament and a set of institutional mergers. When passed, the new act will provide universities with independent legal status, change their...

This article examines trends in Australian university staffing through an analysis of ten years’ staff statistics, 1994-2003. An introduction which considers definitions, methodological issues, and overall changes in patterns of casualisation, sex and the distribution of academic and general...

On examine dans cet article rapport l'évolution du personnel universitaire australien à partir d'une analyse des statistiques sur dix ans, de 1994 à 2003. Après l'introduction qui traite des définitions, des questions méthodologiques et de l'ensemble des changements qui intéressent la...

Academic staff and the academic research, teaching and scholarship they undertake are quite properly the prime focus in universities. However, in the modern university, these functions could not be carried out without the input of general (AKA “nonacademic”) staff. Staff who are not members...

Le personnel universitaire, ainsi que la recherche, l’enseignement et l’acquisition du savoir auxquels il se consacre, constituent le cœur même des universités, ce qui n’est que normal. Mais dans l’université moderne, ces fonctions ne pourraient pas être menées à bien sans...