Australia

Major organizations for graduate education:

• Australian Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies, http://www.ddogs.edu.au/home
• Australian Government Department of Science, Education and Training, http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/default.htm
• Quality in Postgraduate Research, http://qpr.edu.au
• Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations: Higher Education
  • This website contains information about higher education in Australia, including policies, funding sources, publications, research, etc. The Australian government believes that its higher education sector educates our future professional workforce, creates future leaders, provides jobs for Australians, drives much of our economic and regional success, and facilitates cultural and trade links with other countries. The sector plays a key role in the growing knowledge and innovation based economic health of Australia. http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/higher_education/default2.htm
• Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations: Indigenous
  Higher Education Centers
  • This webpage provides information about centers which provide support to
    Indigenous students, further Indigenous academic studies, create a
    network of Indigenous students and academics and provide an Indigenous
    presence on university campuses. http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/indigenous_education/programmes_funding/programme
    _categories/support_for_students/indigenous_higher_education_centres.htm
• edna.edu.au: Higher Education
  • edna a free online network which provides online resources and a collaborative network for education and training. It has a large repository referencing thousands of online resources for education, training and research. Anyone can search, browse and even contribute your own education news, events and resources to the education community. http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/highered/cache/offonce;jsessionid=579B680E626CDAC
    AB9199636C32F3C82

Published Resources Online:

• Higher education takes a hard look at the PhD and finds much that needs
  changing, by Bridget Muray
  • Today’s PhD students face many problems: job opportunities, length of the
    programs, teaching skills, mentoring, versatility of the training. In
    this article, Murray examines current PhD programs and suggests what
    needs to be done to improve PhD programs and student training in the U.S.