Not quite what you said yesterday, digger

02/10/2013 by
SSAF

PolitiFact  fact checks  Christopher Pyne on so-called "student unionism" and his review of the demand driven system and rates his post election comments a "half flip" on his pre-election commitments.  There are some things that are just never settled in the education wars. Compulsory student unionism is one of them. It was abolished in 2006 by John Howard’s Coalition government, and then returned "by the back door" (in the words of Christopher Pyne) when Labor introduced as the Student Services and Amenities Fee in 2011. Now the Coalition is planning to abolish that. As a quick digression, it’s worth noting that the SSAF isn’t compulsory student unionism at all. It’s a fee ($273 in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Government, Higher education policy, Uncategorized Tagged With: , , , ,

Nice work, if you can get it

02/10/2013 by
marianne-lourey

Call for inquiry into Victorian TAFE reform contract 2 October 2013    |    A former Victorian energy bureaucrat has won her company a $1 million taxpayer-funded contract to oversee TAFE reforms despite her having no experience in the education sector and without having to go through a competitive tender process. The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development secretary Richard Bolt waived normal purchasing rules requiring a competitive tender process last July when he contracted his former colleague, Marianne Lourey, through her company, ACIL Tasman, at a cost of $517,900. He extended the contract enable her to continue to lead Victoria’s TAFE reform taskforce for another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Government, TAFE Tagged With: ,

The Australian Higher Education Supplement 2 October 2013

02/10/2013 by

This is The Australian‘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 to view the full article. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Facebook offensive misses target Bernard Lane UNIVERSITIES are dramatically increasing their use of social media, but a new survey suggests their efforts might be all in vain. FedUni opens for business Andrew Trounson FEDUNI, as Australia's newest university is being tagged, was officially launched … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coalition policies, Federation University, Government, Higher education policy, International, International students, Regional, Social media, TAFE, Tertiary media, University of Ballarat, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Fed U begins its rollout

02/10/2013 by
feduni-logo

2 October 2013 Following the passage of legislation in September enabling the merger of the University of Ballarat (UB) and the Gippsland (Churchill) campus of Monash University, Federation University Australia has been officially launched. The new university comes into being on 1 January 2014. It builds on a long history as Australia’s third-oldest tertiary institution, dating back to the 1870s. Originally named the School of Mines and Industries, it split into two organisations in the 1960s keeping the School of Mines and the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, which changed to Ballarat College of Advanced Education in the 1970s. In 1989 Ballarat CAE become … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Federation University, Higher education policy, Monash, University of Ballarat Tagged With: ,
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