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Graduate Outcomes Survey
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Research Areas
Education +
Knowledge
Workforce +
Economy
Project Status
Intention
Invitation
Involvement
Insights
Impact
The Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) is one component of the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) suite of surveys. The GOS is a national survey of recent higher education graduates being conducted for the Australian Government Department of Education by the Social Research Centre.
Partner
The research is being conducted for the Australian Government Department of Education by the Social Research Centre, under the Higher Education Support Act 2003 to conduct the QILT suite of surveys.
Aims + Outcomes
The results of this survey also help the higher education sector and the government improve students’ course experience and enhance teaching and learning in Australian higher education institutions to improve graduate outcomes.
Methods
Graduates of participating Australian higher education institutions are invited to complete the GOS about six months after they have completed studying.
The GOS has three data collection periods in the months of November, February, and May.
Insight
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1 in 10
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Impact
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Have you been contacted about participating in this study?
Who participates?
Graduates of participating Australian higher education institutions are invited to complete the GOS about six months after they have completed studying.
What are the benefits?
In total there are four prize draws open to participants in each collection period.
How does it work?
Higher education institutions provide the department with contact details of in-scope students for the purpose of conducting this research. In compliance with privacy laws, the department has only provided information about you to the Social Research Centre that is directly relevant to this research – all information is transmitted via a secure file exchange.
How do we ensure privacy is protected?
The Social Research Centre complies with the Australian Privacy Principles. All personal contact information such as name, email and phone number is removed from the final data. Your responses will be de-identified, held in the strictest confidence and will not be disclosed to other organisations for marketing or research purposes. The responses of everyone who participates in this survey will be combined for analysis. Please see the SRC’s Privacy Policy.
FAQ's
How will the information be used?
Participation is always voluntary, but your participation is important.
Why? Because it ensures representativeness and that results can be projected to the population.
How long will the survey take to complete?
Our staff may have contacted you as part of a research survey. We are a social research company, exempt from the Australian Do Not Call Register, meaning we may call telephone numbers listed on the Do Not Call Register to conduct opinion polling and standard questionnaire-based research. We are not telemarketers, we are not selling a product and we do not provide your name or contact information to any other parties.
The phone numbers we dial are either:
- Randomly generated by computer, using known telephone exchange prefixes
- Randomly selected from available telephone directories
- Provided to us by our clients.
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Resources
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Get in Touch
Contact
Our helpdesk team for the GOS is available to answer any further questions you may have.
They can be contacted via the details below.
Phone: 1800 055 818 (free call)
Email: gos@srcentre.com.au
General information for graduates participating in the GOS is available at www.gos.edu.au and the research reports for prior years are published at www.qilt.edu.au/surveys/graduate-outcomes-survey-(gos).