Education Research Unit Research Articles

Contracts Between Government and Higher Education Institutions

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsTerry Hore∗∗ Associate Professor Terry Hore is Director of the Higher Education Advisory and Research Unit at Monash University. ∗ Associate Professor Terry Hore is Director of the Higher Education Advisory and Research Unit at Monash University.

An analysis of the functions of selected australasian higher education research and development units

An analysis of the functions of selected australasian higher education research and development units

Whatever Happened to the Nursing Process?

The introduction of a systematic approach to their work by nursing colleagues in the last decade provoked a great deal of comment and literature some of it amusing if perhaps slightly dismissive. Not a great deal is known about how widespread is the practice, or how well it is working in places where it has been adopted. Indeed the DHSS has set up a working party within the Nurse Education Research Unit of King's College to obtain enough basic information with a view to developing a research project into the effectiveness of the nursing process.

Factors influencing the quality of wards as learning environments for student nurses

A main aim of the Clinical Learning Project at the Nursing Education Research Unit, Chelsea College, is to provide criteria for the evaluation of hospital wards as learning environments. The project, which is concerned specifically with student nurses, is attempting to identify factors promoting and inhibiting the clinical learning of this group. This paper will present some of the results of the projects’s pilot research. We should emphasise that, although numbers are small in this pilot study, we are now following up certain aspects of this work in a longitudinal study.

Today's midwife tomorrow: A preview of the 19th International Congress of the ICM

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF MIDWIVES has taken the theme 'Today's Midwife Tomorrow' for the 19th International Congress which is being held in Brighton from September 13-18, 1981. The appropriateness of this theme will be apparent in the 60 and more papers to be presented by midwives from the 51 member associations of the ICM. Midwives in the United Kingdom have been discussing during the past five to ten years the 'changing' and 'extending' role of the midwife. The Nursing Education Research Unit of Chelsea College, London University has attempted to analyse the role and responsibilities of the midwife as a prerequisite to developing a curriculum for that role. Increased technology, hospitalisation for delivery, transfer home early in the post-natal period, an increasing demand for home confinement, consumer participation in decisions on the management of care, and an increasing emphasis on family planning, all influence the role and responsibilities of the midwife. These changes and developments are not peculiar to the United Kingdom, and the ways in which other countries are responding to them, and the role of the midwife in maternity care today and tomorrow, are extremely topical. However, the majority of childbearing women in the world do not have the care of a trained midwife or doctor and the efforts being made, particularly in the developing countries, to bridge this gap and achieve the World Health Organisation's objective of 'Health for all in the year 2000' is also topical, and some very interesting developments will be highlighted during the Congress. A feature of this Nineteenth Congress is that the majority of papers are being presented by midwives and have been offered by the individual midwives concerned to fit into the overall theme and subthemes. This is a new development, as in the past there has been a major input from doctors, since obstetrics and related subjects are so inter-related with midwifery. Another interesting development is that several of the midwives' papers result from research they have undertaken individually or as members of a research team. Six years ago at the Seventeenth International Congress in Lausanne one of the discussion groups tackled the subject of the role of the midwife in research, and at the subsequent Congress in 1978 in Jerusalem a special-interest session considered the progress being made' by midwives internationally in research. Perhaps in three years' time the majority of Congress papers will be based on research by midwives.

British Sign Language

Dr Jim Kyle and Bencie Woll, School of Education Research Unit, Bristol University, report on the use of British Sign Language in the United Kingdom and dispel some of the myths that surround the language

ASSESSMENT IN AUSTRALIAN HIGHER EDUCATION 1971–1979

During the last five years no book specifically devoted to assessment in higher education has been published in Australia. In place of book reviews which would normally appear in this journal this issue contains a review and bibliography of other material which has appeared during the last five years either in Australia or written by Australian academics for publication elsewhere. Ingrid Moses is assistant editor of LABYRINTH, the clearinghouse bulletin for higher education research and development units in Australia and New Zealand, and many of the items under review are drawn from LABYRINTH.

A Contribution to the Psychology of Designing

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsM L J AbercrombieM L J Abercrombie was Director of the Architectural Education Research Unit at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 1963-75. She is a biologist by training and coedited the Penguin “New Biology” series and coauthored the Penguin Dictionary of Biology. Her main interests are in finding ways of making information about human behavior (especially perception, communication and group interaction) available so that people can direct their own behavior more effectively in a variety of situations. P M Terry is a clinical psychologist who is interested in group and community work, particularly in non-clinical settings. He worked with Mrs Abercrombie at the Bartlett on the studies described here and on a University Grants Committee sponsored project on improving group teaching in universities. He currently works as a counselor at the Polytechnic of Central London. The work reported here was supported in part by grants from the Leve-hulme Trust Fund and the Social Science Research Council UK.

Book Reviews : Using and Misusing the Materials of Teaching and Learning E. Roe, Canberra, A.N.U. Education Research Unit, 1975, pp. 292, $A9.95

Book Reviews : Using and Misusing the Materials of Teaching and Learning E. Roe, Canberra, A.N.U. Education Research Unit, 1975, pp. 292, $A9.95

Student work loads

The problem of student work loads has been the concern of staff and students in tertiary institutions for some time. Studies of success, failure and wastage in higher education have indicated a number of factors which may be relevant to the problem of student work loads, but until recently no comprehensive study of the problem has been attempted. A detailed plan for the investigation of student work loads has been prepared by the Higher Education Research Unit at Monash University. Two studies, of quite different type, based on this overall plan, were conducted in 1972 and further studies are proceeding in 1973. This paper includes a general description of the plan for investigating student work loads and gives details of the two studies conducted at Monash University in 1972.

Economics of scale

This paper is based on the results of a study of university costs being undertaken in the Higher Education Research Unit, London School of Economics, directed by Dr. Bleddyn Davies. The study is based on cross-section data supplied by the University Grants Committee and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals on current costs, inputs and outputs in all UK universities, except Oxford and Cambridge and certain institutes attached to the University of London, in the academic year 1968-69.

Salaries of recruits to university teaching in Britain

This paper investigates the determinants of the salaries of recruits to university teaching. The data sources are the University Grants Committee survey of recruits 1967–68, and a special survey of recruits to twenty universities undertaken by the Higher Education Research Unit at L.S.E. in 1969. Salaries of recruits are regressed on grade, age, subject, university type, quality of first degree and highest degree attained. The regression results generally accord with the theoretical predictions. However, the more substantive result is that (excluding grade) the age variable is the dominant influence on salary. The influence of subject taught on salary is surprisingly low given that the different subjects comprise non-competing groups. This tentatively suggests that equity considerations are more important to universities than economic efficiency considerations when universities set recruits' salaries.

Pay in university teaching and similar occupations

This article reports on one part of a larger study of the academic labour market being undertaken in the Higher Education Research Unit at the London School of Economics. A more comprehensive treatment of its contents is given in a mimeographed paper available on request to the author. He is grateful to Gavin Osmond for data collection and compuational assistance; to Mark Blaug, Harry Johnson and Ray Richardson for helpful discussions; and to the National Board for Prices and Incomes for sponsorship of the whole project.

Choice in Education

Decision Models for Educational Planning By Peter Armitage, Cyril Smith and Paul Alper. (LSE Studies on Education, from the Higher Education Research Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science.) Pp. ix + 124. (Allen Lane (The Penguin Press): London, December 1969.) 15s.

Challenges and Advances in Medical Education Conference & Summer Institute

CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: May 15, 2010 3 3rd International Congress in Medical Education Sponsored byMedical Education Research Centre, Università AmbrosianaInternational Graduate Medical Education ProgramMedical Education Research Unit, University of CalgaryFollowed by a Summer Institute in Medical Education, July 19-23

THE DENTAL PROFESSION AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES

Australian Dental JournalVolume 14, Issue 5 p. 342-342 THE DENTAL PROFESSION AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES D. S. Anderson, Corresponding Author D. S. AndersonAustralian National University, Education Research Unit, The Research School of Social Sciences, Box 4, P.O., Canberra, A.C.T. 2600Search for more papers by this authorJ. S. Western, Corresponding Author J. S. WesternAustralian National University, Education Research Unit, The Research School of Social Sciences, Box 4, P.O., Canberra, A.C.T. 2600Search for more papers by this author D. S. Anderson, Corresponding Author D. S. AndersonAustralian National University, Education Research Unit, The Research School of Social Sciences, Box 4, P.O., Canberra, A.C.T. 2600Search for more papers by this authorJ. S. Western, Corresponding Author J. S. WesternAustralian National University, Education Research Unit, The Research School of Social Sciences, Box 4, P.O., Canberra, A.C.T. 2600Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1969 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1834-7819.1969.tb02723.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, Issue5October 1969Pages 342-342 RelatedInformation

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SALARIES OF RECRUITS TO UNIVERSITY TEACHING IN BRITAIN

This paper investigates the determinants of the salaries of recruits to university teaching. The data sources are the University Grants Committee survey of recruits 1967–68, and a special survey of recruits to twenty universities undertaken by the Higher Education Research Unit at L.S.E. in 1969.