The Australian | 21 May 2014 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… A budget line item to halve the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency’s (TEQSA) funding has been described as “counter¬intuitive” by Hilary Winchester, deputy vice-chancellor at CQ University and a former higher education auditor. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….......…… Winchester said: It does look nuts to me. We will see … new operators rushing to get registered and offer higher education programs in what they see as a low cost market. The 2014-15 budget papers show regulation and quality assurance cuts from $20.4 million in 2013 to $10.3m in 2017. According to the budget statement : Reduced … [Read more...]
Catch Up
27/11/2013 by
TAFEs claim funding cuts will cost jobs and millions The Age | 23 November 2013 Victorian TAFEs expect to lose millions of dollars and the education union is forecasting hundreds of redundancies in response to further Victorian state government changes to course subsidies. But the government insists it has not cut overall funding and is moving to stop rorting in the training sector. Kangan Institute chief executive Grant Sutherland told staff in an email the changes would result in an estimated $9.2 million reduction in revenue for next year. This is clearly a substantial reduction and budgets across the institute are currently being reworked to take into account this … [Read more...]
CQU gets the go ahead as a dual sector university
12/09/2013 by
CQU News | 11 September 2013 The Queensland government has given the green light to the merger of Central Queensland University (CQU) and Central Queensland Institute of TAFE to create Australia’s sixth dual sector university, spanning both higher education and vocational education and training. CQU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman says the decision will change the face of post-school education and training in the central Queensland region: Our dual sector university will transform the lives of so many people in the region, by providing them with seamless access to the full range of post-school education and training options and allowing them to ‘skill up’ for the unique workforce … [Read more...]
The Scan | #137 | 12 September 2013
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Australian unis rate highly but slipping The 2014 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings show that while the majority of Australian universities have slipped on the ladder of the world's leading institutions, seven still in rank in the world top 100 and twenty universities - half of the entire system - make the top 400.The top universities in Australia were: ANU at 27 (down 3 places from last year), Melbourne, (31, up 5 places) Sydney (38, up 1 place), University of Queensland (43, up 3), University of NSW (52, steady) Monash … [Read more...]
Feds unlock CQU/CQIT dual sector funding
03/05/2013 by
CQUniversity Media | 3 May 2013 CQUniversity Australia has made another giant leap towards finalising its half-billion-dollar merger with CQ TAFE, with the Federal Government today announcing it would ‘unlock' $73.8 million to support the project. Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Scott Bowman said the much sought-after funding would help to transform post-school education and training across Central Queensland. "I sincerely thank the Commonwealth Government for unlocking these crucial funds, which are absolutely essential to a successful merger with CQ TAFE," Professor Bowman said. "With this funding in place, I am confident that we can now finalise discussions with … [Read more...]
The Scan Main Edition 4 April 2013
04/04/2013 by
# 112 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Universities call for red tape to be cut A typical Australian university in 2011 spent almost a million dollars in meeting not even half of the reporting obligations of just one government department according a PhillipsKPA report, Review of Reporting Requirements for Universities, commissioned by the (then) Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE). Universities together allocated around 66,000 staff days and $26 million in 2011 to meeting just 18 of 46 reporting requirements. Universites Austalia chief Belinda Robinson … [Read more...]
CQU to wind up campus management subsidiary
04/04/2013 by
The Australian | 3 April 2013 Central Queensland University is to close C Management Services (CMS), which runs campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, with the loss of "probably over 100" staff. . CQUniversity vice-chancellor Scott Bowman says that with overseas student numbers down, the university could not justify the administrative duplication and CMS does not fit in with the "university's reinvention or the new phase of internationalisation". Although there are growing domestic numbers at metropolitan campuses -- this year new domestics outnumbered new overseas students at Brisbane -- Bowman says CMS represents a costly mini-university within the … [Read more...]
