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• GCA is delighted to welcome in 2014...
 Over 50 participants
 from 40 institutions
 from every State and Territory
• 6 th annual forum
• Different at the 2014 forum?
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• We work together to administer the AGS (and UES)
• SMIF helps facilitate that, and foster a sense of community where all parties all work together
• Informal opportunity to meet other survey managers and GCA staff - swap tips, information, war stories, make suggestions etc
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• Cue cards
• Please mute mobile phones / tablets
• Bathrooms
• Morning tea afternoon tea
• Lunch
• Drinks
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• Bharat Balasubramanian
Senior Research Associate
• Bruce Guthrie
 Policy, Strategy and
Stakeholder Relations Advisor
• Darren Matthews
 Research Team Leader
• David Carroll
 Senior Research Associate
• Edwina Lindsay
 Research Associate
• Dr Noel Edge
 Executive Director
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• New Survey Managers
• Welcome
• Institutional Reporting and Q&A
• Leone Nurbasri (ANU), Pamela Sarly (ANU), Hiedi Wilkinson (USC), Bruce Guthrie
• Morning tea
• AGS Coding
• Usage of AGS data and the future: Chandrama Acharya (MQ)
• AGS data analysis: the gender wage gap and Q&A
• Lunch
• Maximising response rates and Q&A
• Gheeta Krishnan, UTAS; Brett Ryan, Griffith; Alberto Mendez, UTS, Darren Matthews
• Afternoon tea
• The future of the AGS
• Forum drinks and networking

• Welcome
• Implementing the QILT and Q&A
• Dr Andrew Taylor, Phil Aungles (Department of Education)
• Morning tea
• Live Reporting System
• Sonia Whitely and Eric Skuja, The Social Research Centre
• UES operations
• Inclusion of the Workplace Relevance Scale
UES Query Demonstration
• Sonia Whitely, The Social Research Centre
• Afternoon Tea
• Q&A and wrap up.

AGS 13
 Processing was completed
 Datafiles released
 Reports
 GradStats
 Where Grads Go
 Graduate Salaries
 Graduate Destinations
 Postgraduate Destinations
 Graduate Course Experience
 Postgraduate Research Experience
 Grad Jobs and Dollars (online database)
 AGS 14
 Fieldwork all but completed
 Processing underway
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 UES 13
 Completed in March 2014
 UES National Report
 National datafiles distributed
 UES 14
 GCA / SRC
 Started in May
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Beyond Graduation Survey (BGS)
 3 years after graduation
 5 years after graduation
 5 th annual survey
Graduate Outlook Survey (GOS)
 9 th annual GOS of graduate employers released
Various custom data work
 AGS / BGS / GOS data
 Custom research projects
 NAGCAS Career Service Benchmarking study
 Graduate Opportunities student survey
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Custom data work (inc AGS, BGS and GOS)
 TEQSA
 NAGCAS
 ACER
 Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture
 Australian Workforce & Productivity Agency
 Health Workforce Consulting
 Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
 Institute of Chartered Accountants
 Barbara Preston Research
 Australian Department of Families, Housing, community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
 Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
 NCVER
 Australian Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
 Australian Department of Families, Housing, community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Office of Women
 Office of Learning and Teaching
 Hobsons Press (Good Guides)
 Australian Academy of the Humanities
 Shadow Attorney-General of SA
 Plus more
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Various presentations including:
 Salman bin AdbulAzziz University Delegation
 Government Delegation from Myanmar
 National Commission for Academic Accreditation & Assessment - Saudi Arabia Conference
 The Higher Education Academy – Paul Bennett
 International Caucus – AIR conference
 AAIR conference
 AAIR SIG
 AHEEF conference
 NAGCAS conference
 Plus others
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• AGS 2014 processing and reporting
• AGS 2015 to go ahead
• UES 2014 in field in August
• BGS / GOS surveys to run???
• Custom data work to continue
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 2014-15 federal budget announced the Upholding Quality – Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching measure
“The Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching will provide a coherent suite of government endorsed surveys for higher education, that cover the student life cycle from commencement to employment.”
 Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching = QILT (was AQHE)
 13th June released the QILT Tender for the “Administration of Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching”.
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 QILT Tender
 Administration of the University Experience Survey 2015 and 2016;
 Development and administration of the Graduate Outcomes Survey 2016 and 2017;
 Review and administration of the Employer Satisfaction Survey 2014, 2015 and 2016; and
 Development and hosting of a new QILT website.
 Tenders due last Friday (11 th July)
 Project will start in August
 GCA have tendered with ACER (and ORC International)
 More on the GOS later today
 Andrew Taylor here tomorrow
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We encourage you all to participate, ask questions, share ideas, and make contacts and… enjoy!!