Big night out More than 300 guests attended the launch in Sydney on Friday night of the TDA National Scholarships Foundation and the Mick Young Scholarships fundraising Dinner. ‘Mick’s Big Night Out’ attracted a packed house including the NSW Governor, Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Commonwealth and State Ministers and MPs, TAFE Institutes, Industry Skills Councils, and business. The Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, the Hon Wayne Swan, formally launched the new Foundation, congratulating TDA on the initiative. “Mick’s memory and passion lives and breathes through these scholarships and, now under the umbrella of the TDA National Scholarships Foundation, it will continue to … [Read more...]
Posts to Asia cut in AEI review
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Australian Financial Review | 4 March 2013 The Commonwealth government is cutting its education counsellor posts in Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. The counsellors are part of the Australian Education International (AEI) network of education representatives who connect Australia’s billion-dollar education industry with overseas opportunities – smoothing regulation issues and assisting with student visa regulations. The executive director of the International Education Association of Australia, Phil Honeywood, said the action “sends a crucial message to Asian partner countries that we are not seeing education as a priority”. A spokesman for Tertiary Education … [Read more...]
ACPET National Monday Update 4 March 2013
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Getting the balance right There's no denying that trying to simultaneously represent the interests of ACPET's 1,000 members is a challenge. A great challenge, but a challenge nonetheless. Next month we'll be conducting our annual survey of members to give us feedback as to whether or not we've got the balance right... Read more.... National National PD available in March - Social media tools for training: Pinterest (last chance!) 4 Mar Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, curate, and discover new interests by posting, also known as ‘pinning,’ images or videos to their own or others’ pinboards (i.e. a collection of ‘pins,’ usually … [Read more...]
Uni Sydney strike
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NTEU Media Centre | 1 March 2012 National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of Sydney will strike for 24 hours Thursday 7 March over enterprise bargaining. “This is the first strike in a decade and shows just how riled our members are at management's arrogance and its lack of commitment to the enterprise bargaining process,” said Branch President Michael Thomson. We logged our enterprise bargaining claims on August 7 last year. Management took ages to respond. Its main thrust since has been a serious attack on working conditions. While management has now backed down on removing protections around intellectual freedom, it is offering less job security, … [Read more...]
Australian Financial Review Education Supplement 4 March 2013
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This is Australian Financial Review's own summary of lead items in its online edition. As this is a subscription service, you or your organisation will need to have a subscription to The Australian Financial Review to view the full article. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education briefs James Cook University vice-chancellor Sandra Harding has been elected to a two-year term as president of the university peak body, Universities Australia. Target specific research areas with upfront grants The chief scientist, Ian Chubb, has called on the federal government to offer upfront … [Read more...]
