[Unistats] Regional loading mixed mode load.

[Roni McDowell]

Dear John,

I fully agree  - the Stats people in DEST are usually only responsible for providing the information to other groups within DEST, not for how the data are used.

David did a great job under difficult conditions and Wayne is carrying on in that tradition.  He and Jan and Co need our support at this time more than ever, since we need to work cooperatively on the implementation of Nelson and HEIMS.

On the other hand it is still increasingly difficult to find that data are used incorrectly or with only limited understanding by DEST staff.  This issue of Mixed mode load is not the only recent issue - some of you may or may not be aware that the Work Experience in Industry figures in the DEST income analysis were based on HECS 33 not Element 383 and I am sure there are many other examples.  As experts in this field we must be continually vigilant to ensure these issues are identified and corrected.

UniStats is a great way of giving us a shared understanding of the emerging issues.

Roni

Roni McDowell
Head, Statistics and Reporting Unit
Planning Group
RMIT Collection Coordinator
RMIT University
Phone:  03 9925 4077
Mobile: 0417554033
Fax: 03 9639 1941


>>> "John Chan" <j.chan at avcc.edu.au> 21/10/2003 10:46:48 am >>>
Robert and Colleagues

A fact to share:  David O'Brien used to head the Uni Stats Unit at DEST and had nothing to do with the decision making process of higher education funding.  Uni Stats, as you may have known, is in a process of moving from the Research and Analysis Group (Division) back to the Higher Education Group, where it originally belongs to.   

I don't think we should praise or rather "blame" someone that has left the scene.  I'd rather think positively and be grateful that the concession had been made.  (obviously still not good enough, but it has never been enough!)

Cheers
John
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Robert RISPOLI [mailto:r.rispoli at ecu.edu.au] 
Sent:	Monday, 20 October 2003 5:11 PM
To:	Matulick, Andrea; Roni McDowell
Cc:	Subject:	RE: [Unistats] Regional loading mixed mode load.

> Does anybody have any information on how and when DEST made 
> the generous
> concession of including external load with some regional loading, but
> not including mixed mode?
> 


I bet it was David O'Brien!


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