1. Database of Research on
International Education
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“The single most comprehensive and
useful source for this type of information”
“As a student of international education a few years
ago and as a practitioner today it is an invaluable
“An important
source of current research that is out there. Many of
source for
the study of
us do not have access to wonderful libraries to source Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
the information but more importantly for those of us
international ACER is an independent, not-for-profit national educational research organisation
who are very busy we do not have the time. The IDP
education” established in 1930. With offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Dubai, London
database has it all there at your finger tips”
and New Delhi, ACER is able to provide comprehensive services to the education
community nationally and internationally.
“As both a contributor and a regular user, I have
found it to be a wonderful resource in an area of ACER is a leader in the provision of quality educational research and testing services,
education that has little resources to draw upon” “Thanks for both within Australia and internationally. ACER’s Cunningham Library has been in
sharing with operation since the company’s inception and has the most comprehensive collection
the list! This is of Australian educational research publications of any special library in Australia.
“Without it, I would simply have to spend
an outstanding
hundreds, if not thousands more hours to get Staffed by 11 professionals, the Library has produced the Australian Education
resource”
data on what is happening or current in the Index, AEI, for over 50 years. Drawing on the indexing systems and content of the
Australian international education industry in AEI, it also produces specialist research databases, such as the IDP Database of
terms of qualitative and quantitative research” Research on International Education, the DE-Hub Database of Research on Distance
Education, Education Research Theses, and EdResearch Online.
“It is a fantastic site and I think it is
really helping the quality of research This is developing
IDP Education Pty Ltd
If you are part of the exciting, but ever-changing international and teaching on the topic in Australia into a really useful
archive IDP Education is the world’s largest international student placement provider,
education industry, the Database of Research on and is widely known overseas”
with a network of over 80 offices in 25 countries. IDP is owned by 38 Australian
International Education is an invaluable resource. It will keep universities and Seek Limited, Australia’s leading online employment company,
Here are just a few of and co-owns IELTS together with the British Council and the University of Cambridge
you up to date with the latest thinking in international education the recent additions: ESOL Examinations.
around the world, and allow you to examine a treasure trove • Stronger, simpler,
smarter ESOS:
Regional education hubs: global aspirations
of past research to enhance your professional knowledge
Stronger, simpler, smarter ESOS:
supporting international supporting international students
students: Review of Final report—February 2010 Regulatory regionalism and education: the European Union in central Asia. (2010)
and form a solid basis for future studies. the Education Services
for Overseas Students Bologna beyond 2010: looking backward, looking forward. (2010)
Review of the Education Services for
(ESOS) Act 2000: final
The database is managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research report February 2010.
Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000
The Singapore global schoolhouse: an analysis of the development of the tertiary education landscape in
Singapore. (2010)
(ACER), and is proudly supported by IDP Education and available on the IDP
• The Australasian
website: http://www.idp.com/idp-today/research-services/research- Survey of Student
Promoting Hong Kong’s higher education to Asian markets: market segmentations and strategies. (2010)
database.aspx Engagement (AUSSE) Doing more for learning: Deciphering ‘educational hubs’ strategies: rhetoric and reality. (2010)
a collection of data on Enhancing engagement and outcomes
The searchable database contains details of over 9,000 books, articles, the subject of students' Australasian Survey of Student Engagement Regional education hubs: rhetoric or reality. (2010)
Australasian Student Engagement Report
conference papers and reports on various aspects of international education engagement with learning
Higher education in the United Arab Emirates: an analysis of the outcomes of significant increases in supply and
in higher education. AUSSE
from publishers in Australia and abroad. The database houses material competition. (2010)
published from 1990 onwards, a period of major change in education systems • International INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION VISITATION—
TOURISM OPPORTUNITIES
International branch campuses, free zones, and quality assurance: policy issues for Dubai and the UAE. (2010)
Education Visitation –
around the world and in the trade in educational services. Tourism Opportunities Associations, networks, alliances, etc: making sense of the emerging global higher education landscape. (2009)
The role that tourism
The database has a powerful search function: and travel plays in the Regional themes and global means in supra-national higher education policy. (2009)
international student's
Search by: Australian experience Strategy for the development of a global city: study abroad in Singapore. (2009)
• Keyword or category • A report on a forum Seeking Deeper, More Enduring Ties with Asia and Australia Trends and future scenarios in programme and institution mobility across borders. (2009)
held at NAFSA 2009
By Kyna Rubin
• Organisation Varieties of regulatory regimes in Asia: the liberalization of the higher education market and changing governance
in Los Angeles on in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. (2008)
• Country “New Approaches
to Cooperation with APEC and international education. (2008)
Useful features: Asia and Australia,”
where participants met Singapore’s push for foreign students. (2008)
Michael Davidson, Hugh Wilkins,
Brian King, Perry Hobson,
The database includes useful features such as links to: journals and newsletters to share information on
Stephen Craig-Smith and Sarah Gardiner
The Bologna Club: what U.S. higher education can learn from a decade of European reconstruction. (2008)
on international education, over 60 other relevant websites, international successes and challenges
A publication of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, 2009
This publication is available on the NAFSA Web site at:
http://www.nafsa.org/ePubs
in forging cross-Pacific
education publishers and other searchable education databases. relationships.
Singapore’s global education hub ambitions: university governance change and transnational higher education.
(2008)
Submit your research: Regional quality assurance activity in higher education in Southeast Asia: its characteristics and driving
Submissions of suitable material for inclusion in the database are also welcome. forces. (2008)
By submitting your material you are bringing it to the attention of an international Knowledge economies: the Singapore example. (2008)
audience with an interest in international education. Recognition of higher education qualifications across the Brisbane Communique region: scoping study and
report commissioned by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. (2008)
For further information on submissions, contact: ndrie@acer.edu.au
Similar agendas, diverse strategies: the quest for a regional hub of higher education in Hong Kong and
Singapore. (2008)
IDP Research Database Visitors by Country (percentage) US regional accreditation abroad: lessons learned. (2008)
Trans-national higher education in a globalized world: the Hong Kong experience. (2008)
Other / Undefined 23.74%
Australia 20.97% Regional integration processes and their dynamics for external quality assurance: what can other regions learn
from the Bologna Process? (2008)
United Kingdom 3.03%
Canada 1.60% Regional networks of quality assurance agencies: towards a common framework of standards and procedures
for quality assurance. (2008)
New Zealand 1.15%
Russian Federation 0.58% The minnow and the whale: Singapore-China relations in higher education. (2007)
Netherlands 0.53%
India 0.37% IDP Education Pty Ltd
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