Resource Sharing in Regional Tertiary Education : Final Report.
The improvement of student learning opportunities in regional Australia is a challenge for many tertiary learning providers; this is particularly so in the current climate of declining education resources. The need to achieve economies in service provision is more acute in regional communities with...
| Institutions: | University of South Australia Edith Cowan University TAFE SA South Australia. Dept of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology |
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Office for Learning and Teaching
2014
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| Online Access: | /resources/SD12_2242_Nagy_Final_Report_2014.pdf |
| Summary: | The improvement of student learning opportunities in regional Australia is a challenge for many tertiary learning providers; this is particularly so in the current climate of declining education resources. The need to achieve economies in service provision is more acute in regional communities with VET and university students potentially benefiting from increased learning opportunities. This is the final report from a project that identified five VET and higher education collaborations as cross-sectoral case studies where data was collected from staff, students and community stakeholders separately for each collaborating institution. The team specifically sought evidence of resource sharing that involved human resources in addition to physical resources. The data formed the basis for identifying models of collaboration and also highlighted issues that were challenges to and enablers of collaboration. Models of collaboration identified were: (1) loose informal collaborations and (2) specific collaboration with industry alignment. The project found that Model 2 hosted by a university could be considered an exemplar model with evidence of identified collaboration enablers being leveraged to deliver a world class outcome. However, the context for the exemplar model was in a capital city with limited possibilities for replication in regional communities. |
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| ISBN: | 9781743616581 (PDF) 9781743616598 (DOCX) 9781743616574 (print ed) 9781743616581 (PDF) 9781743616598 (DOCX) 9781743616574 (print ed) |
