Changes in Academic Work, is a report commissioned by the Department of Education, Science and Training from three eminent retired academics, Don Anderson, Richard Johnson and Lawrence Saha. The 178 page report was presented to DEST in June 2002. It was published unannounced on the DEST website about January 10, 2003.

2000 academic respondents to a questionnaire were asked forty questions under the theme: ‘What is the extent of change over the last two decades or since you became an academic?’ and ‘Whether it is for the better or worse?’ Each of the eight categories is shown below (page numbers refer to those in the report).  The graphs indicate the percentage of respondents in agreement within the designations listed below the bar in the graph
    Left-hand graphs: increased greatly, increased a little, no change, decreased a little, decreased greatly.
    Right-hand graphs: change is better, neither, change is worse.

 

STUDENT STAFF INTERACTION AND TEACHING (p11)