3414.0 - Guide to Migrant Statistical Sources, 2007 (Edition 1)

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In this Issue How to use Guide to Migrant Statistical Sources Sources by Title Sources by Topic What do you think of the Guide? About this Release	DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TRAINING (DEST) NAME OF COLLECTION Higher Education Statistics Collection OVERVIEW The Higher Education Group of the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) is responsible for the collection and dissemination of statistics relating to the provision of higher education in all Australian institutions where funding is provided by the Australian Government. DEST's Higher Education Group manages a comprehensive set of statistics collections referred to as the Higher Education Statistics Collection. Under subsection 19-70(1) of the Higher Education Support Act 2003, higher education providers are required to provide statistical and other information to DEST. Data included in the Higher Education Statistics Collection relate to: courses conducted by higher education institutions numbers and characteristics of students undertaking courses student load completion of units of study and courses students' liabilities under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) numbers and characteristics of staff in higher education institutions income and expenditure for higher education institutions research activity the educational profiles of higher education institutions The data are widely used by DEST, other Commonwealth and state/territory agencies, higher education institutions, researchers, journalists, unions and individual members of the public. SCOPE Although the Higher Education Support Act 2003 requires higher education providers to submit statistical and other information to DEST, private providers are only required to provide data relating to Commonwealth-assisted students. (Private provider data from 2007 will cover all students, not just Commonwealth assisted students.) Publications contain details of special cases relating to providers and students enrolled in more than one course or undertaking 'cross-provider programmes'. DATA DETAIL The Higher Education Statistics Collections include data on students, staff and finance. The Student Collections, for example, contain statistics relating to students enrolled in higher education courses in each Australian University. Data items include: type and level of course mode of attendance field of study disciplines for units of study attendance type nationality age gender prior education country of birth location of residence Aboriginality other personal characteristics liabilities through the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) the number and characteristics of students completing award courses and types of courses completed GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL Australia state and territory AVAILABILITY OF DATA AND PUBLICATIONS DEST's Higher Education Group, through its Statistics Unit, disseminates data from the collections through statistics publications, datasets, tabulations, extracts and analyses prepared for clients. Time series data are available back to 1949 in some cases. In addition, many reports and monographs produced by DEST and other agencies contain data from the collection. The ABS, for example, publishes data from the collections in Year Book Australia and various state year books. CONTACT DETAILS The Department of Education, Science and Training's website can be found at www.dest.gov.au . Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.