General manager, Victoria – The Smith Family

04/12/2012 By
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4 December 2012 Senior role within the organisation Great team Collingwood offices  The Smith Family is a national charity helping young Australians in need to get the most out of their education, so they can create better futures for themselves. As the General Manager, Victoria, you will provide senior regional representation and overarching leadership of The Smith Family in Victoria. This will involve influencing and nurturing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver sustainable resources that contribute to The Smith Family’s strategy while ensuring key deliverables within the Victorian strategic framework are met. To be considered for this … [Read more...]

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Campus Review 4 December 2012

04/12/2012 By
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Safety fears after UTS crane fire The National Tertiary Education Union is calling for a public inquiry following the collapse of a construction crane at the University of Technology Sydney.  UTS initiated its emergency protocols just before 10am on November 27 when the crane on the Broadway building site caught fire. Simon Wade, president of the UTS NTEU branch, witnessed the accident and said he was concerned that safety at the Lend Lease construction site has been sacrificed. “This is a major incident and it requires a full open public inquiry to identify the cause of the incident and prevent it from ever happening again,” he said. Greens introduce bill to help casual … [Read more...]

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NSW TAFE cuts stand despite $1bn windfall

04/12/2012 By
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The Australian    |    4 December 2012 The NSW government won’t back down from its $1.7 billion education cuts, including $800 million from TAFEs, despite revelations that the state is more than $1bn better off than it realised.  In October NSW auditor-general Peter Achterstraat’s audit uncovered 37 errors in the state’s financial accounts, suggesting a reported $340m deficit was really a $680m surplus. Treasurer Mike Baird last week insisted the September education cuts, blamed on reduced GST revenue, had been justified.  He told NSW parliament supplementary budget estimates hearing that the budget was still in deficit and, while he wouldn’t reveal the 37 errors, he … [Read more...]

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High-quality, small-group learning says Uni of Adelaide Plan

04/12/2012 By
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University of Adelaide Newsroom    |    3 December 2012 The University of Adelaide's new 10-year strategic plan Beacon of Enlightenment signals what the university describes as a “fundamental paradigm shift towards smaller classes, and delivering a premium student experience”. In launching the plan vice-chancellor Warren Bebbington committed the university to “transformation rather than growth" and pointed to the alternative drift towards massive enrolments and `dumbed-down' content over the past 20 years in Australian and UK universities and the subsequent risk to quality higher education. The ideal of the modern university, the union of teaching and research has been … [Read more...]

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UA goes silent on increased student fees

04/12/2012 By
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Australian Financial Review    |    3 December 2012 Universities Australia appears to have backed away from the contentious issue of student fee deregulation, with a draft of it’s forthcoming policy paper steering clear of the matter. Announcing the policy paper process in an address to the National Press Club earlier this year, Universities Australia chair Glyn Davis outlined what he described as the “toughest questions of all” for the university sector. These were how to achieve increased per-student funding and what mix of public and private contributions was appropriate. But a recent draft of the paper is silent on the level of student fees, although it does … [Read more...]

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