We have argued for a number of years now that there is little if any relationship between quality teaching and learning and Staff to Student Ratios (SSR). Attempts to reduce the ratio is little more than a distraction. Student to ...
More »ATO works with QILT, CompareED to provide students with accurate salary information
Earlier this month it was announced that 2021 ATO salaries data will become part of the ComparEd website, allowing prospective higher education students to more accurately assess the salary data related to their professions and vocations. ComparEd is a website ...
More »The student voice has spoken: and our response is…
The conversations about higher education were never more listened to, or diverse. But what do we hear, what sense do we make of it, and how do we respond? What I heard most clearly last week was the student voice. ...
More »2020 QILT employer satisfaction survey bucks student survey’s negative trends
Despite decreases in student satisfaction affecting the Australian higher education sector in 2020, the 2020 Employer Satisfaction Survey provided a more positive outlook of the sector, including an improvement in overall satisfaction levels since 2019. The survey found that 84.7 ...
More »2020 student experience survey: drops in satisfaction levels but independent providers make their mark
It was expected that the 2020 Student Experience Survey (SES) would contain a number of surprises this year, with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting virtually every part of our globalised world. Domestic students In Australia, for instance, there was a nine ...
More »University graduates: pharmacists lowest paid, dentists highest
Pharmacists are the lowest paid graduates in Australia with new data revealing the profession offers those straight out of university a $49,600 salary. The Graduate Outcomes Survey by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) revealed pharmacists came in $12,900 below the ...
More »Rural universities shine but gender gap persists in latest QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey
The latest Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) report shows an unsurprising decline in employment for higher education graduates over the last 12 months, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey, which was released on ...
More »2020 Graduate outcomes are promising, but gender gaps persist
The 2020 Graduate Outcome Survey – Longitudinal (GOS-L) report was recently released by Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), with figures showing a significant jump in the number of graduates in full-time work since 2017 and varying gender gaps ...
More »Slight dip in positive education quality rating: QILT student survey
Students were slightly less positive about the overall quality of their education last year. The latest QILT student experience survey, released today, found 78 per cent of students rated the quality of their entire educational experience positively. It was the ...
More »Latest employer satisfaction survey holds a few surprises for Australia’s sandstone universities
In university education, teaching quality, research reputation and prestige are influential in students’ application choices, but the latest survey of employer satisfaction levels of graduates shows a shift towards less prestigious institutions and more work-ready graduates. The Quality Indicators for ...
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