Drop in overseas students costs $1bn

03/08/2012 By
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The Australian   3 August 2012 International student numbers have plummeted to a five-year low as the high Australian dollar, problems over visa processing and competition from the US continue to hammer the once-buoyant sector.  Education has fallen from the third-most profitable export industry (behind iron ore and coal) to fifth. An 8.5% slump in overseas student enrolments in the year to June sliced $1.34 billion off the sector's value.  It still contributed $14.7billion in export dollars but that was down 18% from $18bn in 2009-10. Enrolments from China, the source of one in three international students, are down 8% and Indian numbers are down nearly 25%.   University … [Read more...]

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Swinburne releases details of funding cuts

03/08/2012 By
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The Age     1 August 2012 Swinburne vice-chancellor Linda Kristjanson has detailed the extent of funding cuts that have forced the university to close TAFE courses and make hundreds of jobs redundant. Professor Kristjanson says funding for Swinburne’s theatre arts courses, based at Prahran, was expected to fall from $3.2 million to $1.8 million next year. The Prahran campus offers courses in theatre arts, specialist make-up, costume, dance and live performance. I wish to provide staff and students with the strongest possible assurance that we will be doing everything we can to ensure that these courses remain viable and sustainable,” Professor Kristjanson said. The … [Read more...]

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$250 mill research program cast into doubt

03/08/2012 By
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The Australian     1 August 2012 A key plank of Labor's plan to rebuild the manufacturing sector has been thrown into  doubt as the Commonwealth government delays a $250 million promise to boost new research, sparking fears funding will be cut. Julia Gillard announced the $250m plan last December with a commitment to transform manufacturing by helping the private sector draw on university research to develop new businesses. The Prime Minister said the program would help "build the industries of the future" by funding more than 1000 engineering cadetships across four years and 600 university researchers a year. But the program was cut to $236m in May, and the government has … [Read more...]

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How to “save” $3 billion in higher education spending

03/08/2012 By
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The Grattan Institute’s mission “is to contribute significantly to Australian public policy.  It is independent, taking the perspective of the public interest rather than any interest group, and it avoids commissioned work to ensure this independence.” Well it’s certainly demonstrating its independence and a certain idiosyncrasy. In its first foray into higher education matters - Investing in regions: Making a difference  (May 2011)– it concluded that the “evidence” shows that the tertiary participation rate is no higher in regional cities that have a university than in those without, and regional universities have not made “a material difference to regional … [Read more...]

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