Australian

• Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations – Lead government agency providing national leadership in education and workplace training
  • Higher Education – EdNA’s higher education site
  • Higher Education Latest News
• Education Portal – Australian Government portal for education
• Higher Education Links
• Indigenous Online Network – Indigenous resources in and for the Australian higher education sector

International

• BUBL Information Service – UK forum for the higher education community
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education – abstracts publications and links to world-wide resources
• Google (Open Directory Project) Higher Education – Web Directory linked to superb search engine
• Higher Education Links List (HELL) – selective directory of annotated resources for educators, researchers and graduates
• Higher Education Resource Hub – “information resources in the field of higher education throughout the world”
• International and Comparative Education – WWW Virtual Library
• NISS Information for Education – UK higher and further education
• Yahoo Higher Education – Web Directory linked to popular search engine

Australian

• Universities in Australia – guide arranged by city and state with other information
• Australian University Calendars and Handbooks – web based Australian University Calendars and Handbooks
• Australian University Web Sites

International

• Association of Commonwealth Universities
• American University home pages
• UK Universities and Colleges
• University Web pages Worldwide – (Braintrack University Index)

Career Information and Job Searching

• CareerOne – News Limited’s job search and career/resume help site
• GradLink – from the Graduate Careers Council of Australia: links graduates with potential employers
• UniJob – jobs in Australian HE with links to the SEEK internet employment site

• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Australian Academy of Science
• Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Australian Academy of Medicine and Surgery
• Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Australian Association for Research in Education: AARE  – fosters educational research in Australia
• Australian Council for Educational Research: ACER – independent organisation working to improve learning
• Australian Council of Deans of Science – “to promote the development of science … in universities throughout Australia”
• Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) – representing and advancing the interests of postgraduate students
• Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies (FASTS)
• HERDSA – Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia

• Australian-American Educational Foundation – administers the Australian Fulbright Program
• Australian Research Council: ARC – Information about research grants
  • ARC Research Networks
    This website has been commissioned by the Australian Research Council to provide a platform for discussion and to help strengthen links between networking researchers.
• Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) Program Directory
• Higher Education Research Data Collection
  • Register of Refereed Journals [RTF format, 17 pages]
    This list contains the names of journals that have been assessed by DEST as satisfying the refereeing requirements for the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC).
• Essay Editing Australia – Provides essay editing for students and business.
• National Research Priorities Taskforce – The Commonwealth Government as part of Backing Australia’s Ability has embarked on a national research priority setting.

• UniSuper – SSAU and TESS information.

• Australian Universities Teaching Committee – “promoting quality and excellence in university teaching and learning in Australia”
• Australian Awards for University Teaching
• DeLiberations – resources for teaching and learning in higher education
• National Council on Open and Distance Education (NCODE) – resources for open, distance and flexible education in the tertiary sector (check out the Pedagogy section in particular)
• ultiBASE – Resources to promote the improvement of tertiary teaching and learning

• Australian Council of Trade Unions
• Australian Services Union
• Liquor, Hospitality & Miscellaneous Workers Union
• National Tertiary Education Union Australia
• Queensland Public Sector Union

• Association for Tertiary Education Management – administrators/managers working in Australian etc tertiary education
• Australian Council for Educational Administration – professional association for educational administrators
• Australian Higher Education Industrial Association: AHEIA  – employer organisation representing Universities
• Australian Vice Chancellors’ Committee: AVCC – peak organisation representing Australian higher education

• Observatory on Borderless Higher Education – track developments in areas such as e-learning, developing markets and international collaboration
• Campus Review Online – newspaper covering higher education in Australia
• The Australian: HigherEd – Higher Education articles from the Australian newspaper

• Australian Copyright Council Online Information Centre
• Create Change: Reclaiming Scholarly Communication
• Intellectual Property – Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

• DEST Higher Education Division Department of Education, Science and Training
  • Higher Education Review Consultation Process: Publications
  • Minister for Education, Science and Training
  • The National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (NOOSR)
  • Statistics Relating to Higher Education
• Education Queensland
• Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA)

• Australian Education International – is an initiative of the Australian Government
• Australian Qualifications Framework: AQF – unifies school, vocational and higher education qualifications
• MBA Connect
• Boarding Schools Australia
• Foundation Year Australia
• EdNA.com – “Australia’s Online Educational Marketplace”
• Study in Australia – “The International Gateway to Australian Education”
• IDP Education Australia – “Australia’s independent, international education organisation”
• Study Online Australia – Guide to Online and Distance Education Programs
• Queensland Studies Authority: Tertiary Entrance – [was TEPA – Tertiary Entrance Procedures Authority]
• Which Course? Which University? – information on higher education courses offered in Australia (DEST formerly DETYA)

• Australian National Training Authority: ANTA
• National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
• VOCED (Vocational Education and Training Database) search
• National Training Information Service (NTIS)
• TAFE Queensland online