Funding is increasingly attached to compliance. Processes are being changed and controlled externally. The language, for the linguists amongst us, and therefore the meaning of education is being changed. Academics are starting to lose autonomy of thinking. Quality is being determined externally.
Teaching becomes a job, students become clients and employment becomes the desired outcome.
There are a number of management documents which may help to inform our definition of effective teaching. These documents would help to determine whether our mission, vision, goals and objectives as an individual teacher are congruent with those of our department, university and country. If our personal definition of effective teaching is to be reflected in some way in Australian higher education it is important that we become involved in the management process that formulates the definition. Each of these practices are components of quality control processes which allow indirectly for input into the definition of effective teaching. Promotions committees implement university guidelines which generally outline quite clearly what the University values in education at the various levels of appointment.