It is the principal learned journal of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. The journal combines traditional hard copy publication and expert reviewing with electronic publication of extended abstracts, which are open to peer comment. The aim is to further debate and provide opportunities for more immediate and wider comment. The journal aims to inform improvements in practice through reporting research and evaluations and promoting scholarly reflective articles on practice, policy and theory. The journal, is addressed to university and college faculty from all disciplines and to higher education administrators.
Contributions come from around the globe and the topics addressed are of world wide concern.
Of the three issues each year one is focused on a particular theme, with a guest editor. The theme for the 1997 special issue is Phenomenography and its impact on research and practice in higher education. This will be edited by Christine Bruce and Rod Gerber. The contributors will include Shirley Booth, Gloria Dall'Alba, Noel Entwistle, Michael Prosser, Keith Trigwell and Lennart Svensson.