Higher education policy seminars 2014

06/05/2014 by
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6 May 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Has Australia the imagination and will to create and maintain international pre-eminence in higher education? Key issues must be tackled across the next few years if an excellent higher education system is to be designed and built. …………………………………………………………………………………………………....................................   Since 2007 the University of Melbourne has hosted an influential series of high-profile public seminars on higher education policy. With higher education becoming ever more important to Australia’s prosperity it is essential to engage deeply in open discussions of how to plan and steer the tertiary system. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Higher education policy, LH Martin, Notices, The Scan, universities Tagged With: , ,

The Scan 13 August 2013

13/08/2013 by
Grant Sutherland

#133 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ VCs doing OK An analysis  by the National Tertiary Education Union of the 2012 Annual reports of Australia’s 37 public universities shows that their vice -chancellors (VCs) were well financially rewarded for their efforts. In total the VCs received remuneration packages worth close to $30m.   Only one V-C is paid less that the Prime Minister, with most getting considerably more.... [READ MORE] ..... Employers losing faith in training system A  Victorian government-commissioned survey has found that employers are losing faith in the quality … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ACPET, ALP policies, AQF, ATN, Australian Technology Network, Budget, Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Conferences, Early edition, Government, Grattan Institute, Greens, Higher education policy, LH Martin, National Tertiary Education Union, Notices, Open Universities Australia, Research, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, Uncategorized, University of Western Sydney, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Scan Early Edition 16 July 2013

16/07/2013 by
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#128 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Go8 argues for tighter entry standards Go8 chairman and University of NSW vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer is pressing higher education minister Kim Carr to clamp down on entry standards, dampening enrolment growth to help save $1.4 billion. Carr is due to meet with peak body Universities Australia this week. Hilmer is responding to Carr’s invitation to bring forward budget-neutral alternatives to $2.8 billion in cuts announced by Labor before this year’s federal budget to be redirected to schools.  Under the plan, entry to undergraduate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ACPET, ALP policies, ANU, Budget, Campus Review, Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Conferences, Early edition, Government, Group of 8, Higher education policy, Industrial relations, International, LH Martin, National Tertiary Education Union, NCVER, Notices, Qualifications, Regional, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, Tertiary media, Universities Australia, University of Western Sydney, VET Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Scan Main Edition 12 July 2013 # 127

12/07/2013 by
TAS TAFE

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Quality is an issue: Carr Minister for higher education Kim Carr has reiterated his view that the quality of some degrees is under threat because of the vast increase in enrolments of academically under-prepared students.  He said he had been advised that as many as half of all school-leavers entering university with an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank below 50 are dropping out.   And that is justification enough for him to put minimum entry requirements on the radar.....[READ MORE]..... ATAR linked to drop out rate There is a direct … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ACPET, Australian Catholic University, COAG, Coalition policies, Commonwealth policies, Conferences, Government, Higher education policy, International, LH Martin, National Tertiary Education Union, Notices, Scan Main Edition, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, Tertiary media, Universities Australia, University of Ballarat, University of Melbourne, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , ,

Profiling exercise provides new perspectives on Australian higher education

25/06/2013 by
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Research by the LH Martin Institute and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has produced a multi-dimensional profile of every Australian university. Inspired by the European Commission’s U-Map and U-Multirank projects, the research team used data from numerous publicly available sources to present visual maps, or ‘sunbursts’, of each university’s activities and performance in the dimensions of teaching and learning, student profile, research involvement, knowledge exchange and international orientation. Professor Leo Goedegebuure, Director of the LH Martin Institute and one of the project’s researchers, stressed that the profiles are not another attempt to rank … [Read more...]

Filed Under: acer, LH Martin, Uncategorized, universities Tagged With: ,

The Scan Early Edition 4 June 2013

04/06/2013 by
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#120 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Polytec network set up 4 June 2013    |   An Australian Polytechnic Network (APN) is being founded by the University of Canberra, Melbourne’s Holmesglen Institute, Northern Sydney Institute, South Western Sydney Institute and Brisbane’s Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE.   The formation of the new grouping follows a decision of the now minister for tertiary education, Craig Emerson, to reverse a decision of former minister Chris Evans to now Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) for delivery of University of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ALP policies, Budget, Canberra University, Charles Sturt University, Clinical placements, Commonwealth policies, Early edition, Government, Higher education policy, Holmesglen TAFE, Industrial relations, International, International students, La Trobe University, LH Martin, Medical training, National Tertiary Education Union, Notices, Qualifications, TAFE, TEQSA, Uncategorized, Universities Australia, University of Canberra, university staffing, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Scan Early Edition 21 May 2013

21/05/2013 by

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ATARs for uni admission drop marginally 21 May 2013  | Universities are continuing to lower entry scores to maintain expanding numbers, sparking warnings that school inequality is to blame as regional and poor students get left behind. Commonwealth student applications and offer data for this year also show that universities are continuing to recruit into teaching degrees a rising proportion of school leavers with Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks of 50 or less. The proportion of university offers to school leavers with ATARs of 50 or below has doubled over the last two years to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AEU, ALP, Budget, Campus Review, Commonwealth policies, Early edition, General, Government, Higher education policy, LH Martin, National Tertiary Education Union, RMIT, Schools, Society, TAFE, Teacher training, Tertiary media, Uncategorized, Universities Australia Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Napthine falls short: TAFE needs more than a bandaid

14/03/2013 by
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   |    14 March 2013 There might be a new premier in Victoria, but it seems there’s still no good news for TAFEs. The $200 million in structural adjustment funding announced this week is certainly welcome, but it is simply too little, too late. The Victorian government should have made such provision almost a year ago when it abruptly took a meat cleaver to TAFE funding, hacking out $300 million. The damage from these cuts has been monumental. But what is more worrying is the way these cuts have signalled a changing role for TAFEs in Victoria with repercussions for the quality of vocational education and the wider economy. Cut to the bone You didn’t need a crystal ball to foresee … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coalition policies, LH Martin, Qualifications, Quality audits, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

Uni compacts “weak” given lack of performance funding

12/02/2013 by
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The Australian    |    9 February 2013 The Gillard government'’s compact agreements with universities have been slammed Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor Andrew Vann as weak with little funding attached to drive behaviour and no real power to steer the new demand-led market for students.   Vann told a seminar on mission diversity and profiling at the LH Martin Institute in Melbourne on 8 February that the agreements can simply be ignored by institutions. I don’t know what they are for. We have had our compact discussions but there is no money attached to it. We are going to compete in the market so won’t (fail to) enrol students just because we are likely to over run something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Budget, Charles Darwin University, Commonwealth policies, Group of 8, Higher education policy, LH Martin Tagged With: , ,

The Scan 9 August 2012

16/08/2012 by
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Elite unis attacked over fees Angry that the Group of Eight, led by University of NSW vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer, is publicly spruiking for the removal of fee caps at the same time universities are attempting to agree on a joint position, UWS acting vice-chancellor Rhonda Hawkins has broken ranks and called for a more open debate on the issue.   [Continue Reading]... ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hilmer's pitch on deregulating fees Universities should be able to charge a higher student contribution for selected “premium” degrees, such as medicine, law, engineering and business, which qualify … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community engagement, Conferences, LH Martin, NCVER, RMIT Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , ,