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How do employers judge a job candidate’s work readiness? What Does Work Ready Really Mean? Business and industry face two intractable realities – a faster rate of change and a more competitive environment. Graduates will now encounter employers who expect new hires to be work ready from day one and who can learn quickly in

The review of the ABDC Business Journal Quality List has been submitted and is now being considered by the ABDC’s Business Academic Research Directors’ Network (BARDsNet). Earlier this year the Australian Business Deans Council appointed the Australian and international experts to review the ABDC Business Journal Quality List. Professor Kim Langfield-Smith, Emeritus Professor at Monash University in

What can Australia learn from the UK experience of the Research Excellence Framework ? To see the interactive story click here. Academic researchers are judged by publication of their work in peer-reviewed journals but, alongside that international gold standard, are new incentives with the potential to change research culture dramatically. ‘We always, traditionally, have thought of

ABDC has responded to the Higher Education Standards Panel recommendations on the impact of professional accreditation in Australian higher education and opportunities to reduce the regulatory burden on higher education providers. Submission under Publications on ABDC website

Interviews with industry leaders provide insights into views of business schools and their graduates. ABDC members have now received the ABDC report on Industry-Business School Engagement, which was commissioned by the ABDC to improve understanding of how Australian business schools are perceived and how Business Deans can engage more effectively with industry, government and business

Professor Marie Wilson on managing workforces aged 19 to 79 in a business world of increasing age diversity. The recent University of South Australia study on age discrimination in the workplace highlights the challenges of managing workplaces where staff may range in age from teenagers to those in their 70s. ‘The increasing age diversity in the workplace

ABDC says universities have the capacity to educate the number of accountants required but the number of graduates is falling well short of workforce demand. The Federal Government’s projected growth in the demand for accountants can only met through Skilled Migration because not enough Australian students are choosing to study accountancy. The Australian Business Deans

ABDC Research Scholar, Professor Stephen Taylor, on the need to include teaching and other business school activities in national measures of impact and engagement. The Australian Industry Group (AiG) recently released a report, which found that collaboration on innovation in Australia was ‘rare and shallow’ and at the lowest level of all developed countries. The Joining Forces:

The ABDC has called for a more consistent, systemic approach with predictable funding and rigorous evaluation of initiatives in the Federal Government review of the In its response to the Department of Education and Training’s consultation, ABDC said that Government policy and funded initiatives, like HEPPP, are critical to improving the access and participation of