Quality Australian journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Australian researchers are under increasing pressure to provide evidence of quality research output, an imperative in part due to the research funding model for universities and to plans for the Research Quality Framework (RQF), which was scheduled for implementation in 2008. (1) Research output takes many forms, but journal...

Neighbors.
COLUMN: NEIGHBORS Northbridge High class of 2009 honored WHITINSVILLE - Members of Northbridge High School class of 2009 were honored last month at a Junior Medalist Reception held in the high school's theater before 180 faculty members, family and friends. Welcoming remarks were offered by...

Problems in the pipeline: gender, marriage, and fertility in the Ivory Tower.
Introduction Women have traditionally fared worse than men in the workplace. In few places has this been more apparent than higher education (Jacobs, 1996). In 2003, women received 47% of PhDs awarded (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2005a) but comprised only 35% of tenured or tenure-track...

PG education losing sheen and lustre?
Byline: B K Mishra PATNA: Has the postgraduate education in Bihar lost its relevance for students? It seems so, if the number of aspirants applying for admission to the PG courses in Patna University this year is any indication. Even as the last date for...

The virtue of reference.
Let us consider the question, what makes a good reference librarian? Can we best answer that question by developing an articulated standard of a good or bad reference librarian, perhaps a list of rules that are either followed or not, with the good reference librarian being the one who...

Writing at escape velocity: an interview with Cristina Rivera Garza.
I caught up with Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza in a rare free moment while she was overseeing the second annual Laboratorio Fronterizo de Escritores/Writing Lab on the Border, which she organized between the Centro Cultural de Tijuana and San Diego. The interview took place on July 2nd 2006,...

Profiling of the public-service elite: a demographic and career trajectory survey of deputy and assistant deputy ministers in Canada.
Inspiring this study is an attempt to construct an image of the individuals who comprise the Canadian deputy / assistant deputy cadre--a unit we have called the "public-service elite" (PSE) in this article--in order to gain a better sense of who they are. To date, surveys of the most...

Bridging the abyss.
Abstract This paper seeks to explain the epistemological bases for the two cultures and to show why this disciplinary divide continues to plague American academic culture. Next, we discuss strategies for bridging the two cultures through general education curricula which promote mutual understanding of the two cultures...

How well do you know your clients?: international students' preferences for learning about library services.
Statistics from Australian Education International (AEI) show that the numbers of international students enrolling in Australian higher education institutions have risen every year since 2002, the highest increase being 16.5% in 2002-2003 (136252) and the lowest 5.2% in 2005-2006 (172297). (1) Preliminary figures for the January-July 2007 enrolments show...

Building Bridges, Carving Niches: An Enduring Legacy. (reprint, 2000).
HG3334 981-210-439-9 Building bridges, carving niches; an enduring legacy. (reprint, 2000) Loh, Grace et al. Marshall Cavendish Academic, [c]2005 280 p. $26.00 Three scholars from the humanities and social science department at Nanyang Technological University,...