• Find research and data from DEST's InfoCat or from the Australian Council for Educational Research's EdResearch.

• Search the ERIC bibliographic database for articles or papers on education.

• Search for educational statistics in the UNESCO Institute for Statistics database.

Directories

• Find a range of higher education links, including State Departments of Education.

• The Federal Government's Education Portal is a good gateway to education and related statistics.

• The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee provides links to all Australian universities. DEST also has a listing.

• Braintrack gives information and contact details on universities worldwide.

• Find a listing of and information about Australian schools.

• Search for staff email and phone directories at a range of Australian universities.

• Find information from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, through the Commonwealth's Education portal or visit the Education Network.

• Search EdNA's Higher Education Sector Directory.

Media

• Look at Uni News Line for the latest news and announcements from universities about events, announcements, grants, awards, partnerships and more. Univation allows you to cross-reference innovation stories to find out what's been happening in recent times in a particular field of inquiry at universities around the country.

• Keep up to date with news and developments in Australian higher education via the UOW Higher Education Gateway.

• Search the Australian 's higher education section.

• Read Campus Review for special reports, news briefs and contacts in Australian higher education.

• Find media releases and the ten-point plan for higher education at the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee.

• Check out the Indigenous Online Network.

Organisations

• The Australian Universities Teaching Committee is a national body aimed at improving Australian university teaching and learning.

  Get the views of the Australian Council of Deans of Education who represent deans of faculties of education and heads of schools of education in Australian higher education.

• Find news releases, reports and other information from the Group of Eight Universities.

  Find links to Australian organisations in higher education and to a range of useful databases and lists of contacts in higher education.

• The Australian Council for Educational Research has a What's Hot section, as well as information about current projects and publications.

• The National Council of Independent Schools' Associations represents the interests of the independent school sector (which includes more than 950 schools) in relation to Commonwealth funding and policy.

• The Grammar Schools of Queensland Association Inc. expresses the collective views of the public grammar schools in Queensland.

• Find out about the Australian Fulbright program at the Australian-American Fulbright Commission.

  Find a range of research organisations, centres and institutes through Australian Policy Online or the Australian Public Intellectual (API) Network.

Qualifications

• Search the Australian Qualifications Framework, a unified system of twelve national qualifications in schools, vocational education and training and the higher education sector.

• The National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition provides information on skills recognition in Australia and on the assessment and recognition of general academic and technical qualifications and the recognition of professional qualifications.

• Read Hacking Australia’s Future Threats to institutional autonomy, academic freedom and student choice in Australian higher education written by the Senate's Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee.

• Read submissions and other information about Higher Education at the Crossroads, the latest Commonwealth Government higher education review.

• Find information on the current Commonwealth Government review of teaching and teaching education.

• Get information on submissions to the annual National Research Priorities for government-funded research round.

• Read the DEST report on higher education, 2000-2002.

• This site provides information on the Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy. It includes the final report (the West review), submissions to the Committee, the discussion paper and responses to it.

• Read Our Universities, Our Future from the AVCC.

• Examine the emergence of corporate, virtual and for-profit universities in Corporate Universities, Higher Education and the Future: Emerging Policy Issues.