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Item Open Access Item Open Access Accounting for higher education : calculative practices in curricular administration.(2024) Dixon, KeithCalculative practices resembling conventional accounting and sometimes termed ‘audit culture’ have materialised in higher education to account for learning and related activities. These practices are posited as curricular accounting. I have observed the development and ubiquitous expansion of this accounting function from within several universities in Britain and Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ), particularly the University of Canterbury. Treating curricular accounting as a form of accounting, I define and configure its aspects and explain its functioning. Framing the study historically and critically, I examine how today’s practices in ANZ reflect the founders of tertiary educational institutions and their successors striving for equivalence with first British and then international standards, while concerned about their country’s political, economic and social development. Three influences have arisen since the mid-20th century. Demand has increased for university-educated labour and wider access to universities has become a social policy imperative, resulting in dramatic student growth. Knowledge has also grown markedly, and so the higher education curriculum has expanded. Accounting in universities has extended following neoliberalism and managerialism taking hold in government, public policy and higher education. Critical questions are: Has curricular accounting served to emancipate society? Or has it enabled the business of higher education to fabricate products which consumers find compelling, resulting in exploitation of students and constraint of academics?Item Open Access New Zealand’s DST Journey – Taking the Right Path?(2025) Sawyer AItem Open Access Unlocking The Potential of Pre-Eclampsia Self-Management System: Analysing Benefits, Challenges and Gaps(2025) Chung C; Sreeprakash AItem Open Access Measuring and reporting environmental impacts of dairy farming(2022) Steenkamp N; Lord B; Zamri IItem Open Access The effects of infographics on communication effectiveness and efficiency in IR: An exploratory eye tracking study(2023) Steenkamp N; Fisher RItem Open Access Integrated Reporting guiding principles: The evolution of disclosure by a New Zealand company(2023) Steenkamp N; Lord B; Yang XItem Open Access Integrated reporting business models and the role of presentation format: Insight from an eye tracking study(2023) Steenkamp N; Fisher RItem Open Access The practice of accountability: evidence from an Australian Indigenous non-government organization(2024) Fukofuka P; Jacobs KItem Open Access Accounting and Indigenous Peoples - Reviewer's comments to author(2024) Fukofuka P; Yong SItem Open Access Patient-focused Cardiovascular Symptom Assessment Systems: Reducing Pre-hospital Delays and Enhancing Triage Decisions(2023) Chung C; Fu J; Dicker BItem Open Access Individual and Family Sustainability: The Measure-Model-Entertain-Transform Approach(2019) Chung C; Sundaram DItem Open Access SUSTAINABLE ENHANCEMENT OF HEALTHCARE DELIVERY: A COMPREHENSIVE PARADIGM FOR OPTIMIZING ELECTIVE SURGERY RESOURCES(2023) Koushan M; Wood LC; Greatbanks R; Doung LNKThis study introduces a novel, comprehensive surgery scheduling model for elective surgeries, aiming to enhance coordination among preoperative, operating room, and postoperative units. The model encompasses three objectives to achieve a trade-off among stakeholders' priorities: firstly, minimizing idle time and overtime in Operating Rooms (ORs); secondly, maximizing the interval between two consecutive patients in the operating room to facilitate stakeholder satisfaction; and thirdly, maximizing the number of scheduled patients from the waiting list throughout the scheduling horizon. Given the problem's NP-hard nature, a new meta-heuristic approach (NSGA-SA), the hybrid of Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) with Simulated Annealing (SA), is employed for problem solving. Following parameter setting of the solution approaches, multiple numerical experiments are conducted. The exact results obtained through the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) are compared with the outcomes of the outlined meta-heuristic approach, demonstrating the effective performance of the proposed method.Item Open Access Item Open Access Patient-centric Self-Management: A Systems View of Lifestyle Factors and their Impact on Chronic Diseases(2023) Chung C; Sundaram DItem Open Access Digitization of the Individual – Personal Decision Analytics(2024) Chung C; Yvonne H; Sundaram DItem Open Access Gay male leaders in the corporate sector of China: A phenomenological study.(2024) Chen Z; Wordsworth R; Wright SItem Open Access Trapped with nowhere to go: Understanding the lived experience of reluctant stayers.(2024) Wordsworth R; Kirsten M; Du Plessis MItem Open Access The usefulness of digital badges to showcase employability skills: Accounting students’ perceptions(2022) Steenkamp N; Fisher R; Nesbit TItem Open Access The Usefulness of Digital Badges to Showcase Employability Skills: Accounting Student Perceptions(2022) Steenkamp N; Fisher R; Nesbit T