Improving indigenous access to higher education

16/09/2012 By
teachabout31

The Australian    15 September 2012 Education transforms lives, and the Behrendt Review proposes an Australia in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are well represented in each new class and on staff, a familiar part of the university community. It is an inspiring vision of the nation we can become - Glyn Davis, chair Universities Australia. For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, studying at university seems a distant prospect. The Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (the Behrendt Review) demonstrates that some Australians do not share equitably in the benefits of higher education. Larissa … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Commonwealth policies, Higher education policy, Universities Australia Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

The world’s best cities for students

16/09/2012 By
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Crikey    14 September 2012 As well as its 2012 World University Rankings,  with four Australian universities are in the top 50 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) also has a top 50 ranking of the Best student cities in the world in 2012.  Australia does well with all five mainland capitals in the top 30: Melbourne (4), Sydney (6), Brisbane (22), Perth (25), Adelaide (29). Only Paris, London and Boston rank ahead of Melbourne.  And those four plus Vienna are the only ones that rank ahead of Sydney. QS began with a list of 98 cities which each have a minimum population of 250,000 and at least two ranked educational institutions. It then applied 12 indicators in 5 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: International, International students, Rankings Tagged With: , ,

Feds threaten to withold funding

16/09/2012 By
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Sunday Age  16 September 2012                        Australian Financial Review   17 September 2012 As Victorian TAFEs prepare to sell campuses, increase fees, cut courses and sack staff to cope with state government cuts, the Gillard government has threatened to withhold almost $435 million in ''national partnership'' payments under a COAG agreement signed off in April. Commonwealth Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans says that Victoria's TAFE cuts are ''destroying'' the vocational sector and undermining the state's COAG obligations. We don't want to take money out of the Victorian TAFE system, but there's clearly no point in us pouring money in if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,
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