SURVEY MANAGER INFORMATION FORUM 2014 THURSDAY 17 TH JULY AUSTRALIAN GRADUATE SURVEY

2 GCA is delighted to welcome in  Over 50 participants  from 40 institutions  from every State and Territory 6 th annual forum Different at the 2014 forum?

3 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 WHY ARE WE HERE?

4 Cue cards Please mute mobile phones / tablets Bathrooms Morning tea afternoon tea Lunch Drinks HOUSEKEEPING

5 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 THE GCA TEAM

6 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 SMIF 2014 PROGRAM: THURSDAY - AGS

7 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 Lunch Inclusion of the Workplace Relevance Scale UES Query Demonstration Sonia Whitely, The Social Research Centre Afternoon Tea Q&A and wrap up. SMIF 2014 PROGRAM: FRIDAY - UES

8 THE LAST 12 MONTHS 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

9 THE LAST 12 MONTHS  UES 13  Completed in March 2014  UES National Report  National datafiles distributed  UES 14  GCA / SRC  Started in May

10 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 THE LAST 12 MONTHS

11 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 THE LAST 12 MONTHS

12 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 THE LAST 12 MONTHS

13 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 THE NEXT 12 MONTHS

14  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”. THE NEW ‘AGS’

15  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 QUALITY INDICATORS FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING

16 WELCOME TO THE 2014 SMIF We encourage you all to participate, ask questions, share ideas, and make contacts and… enjoy!!