The Scan # 148 13 March 2014

13/03/2014 by
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___________________________________________________________________________________________ Shake up for rental scheme 13 March 2014   |    The government has flagged a shake-up of the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) in the wake of revelations the program has been manipulated to build student housing that is being let to wealthy foreign students. Two developers behind an 823-bed NRAS development in Sydney  tapped more than $80 million in subsidies to construct a building to be filled largely by international students. Universities have also snapped up thousands of NRAS incentives to build large blocks of studio accommodation that is often taken up by fee-paying international … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Commonwealth policies, Government, Higher education policy, Industrial relations, Life & stuff, Monash, MOOCs, National Tertiary Education Union, NMIT, RMIT, Scan Main Edition, Swinburne, TAFE, TEQSA, Tertiary media, The Scan, universities, University of Wollongong, university staffing Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Monash first to acquire a new brand Top-Level Domain

12/03/2014 by

Monash News     |     20 January  2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Monash University has become the first globally recognised organisation to be delegated a brand Top-Level Domain (TLD). ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The New TLD Program has been developed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s global governing body, to provide competition and choice to current Top-Level Domains such as .com, .info, .net, and .org. With over 1,900 applications received by ICANN, 2014 will see the staged release of approximately the first 1,000 Top-Level Domains to the Internet ecosystem, seen as one of the largest changes … [Read more...]

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EBAs: Monash settle – Swinburne, Macquarie and UQ unsettled

10/03/2014 by

10 March 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Monash University have reached in-principle agreement on a new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) , following strike action on 3 March, while NTEU and Swinburne appear headed to court. Staff are striking at Macquarie and Queensland over pay and workload issues. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The deal provides for  a salary increase going forward of 13% for the life of the new agreement, in addition to the 2% administrative pay rise which Monash University staff received last year making a total salary increase of 15% to be delivered by 30 June … [Read more...]

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Big six dominate rankings

27/02/2014 by
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The Australian | 26 February 2014 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Six universities have so dominated the latest international ranking of performance across 30 subject areas they have taken out 141 of the available 150 top five places nationally. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Melbourne was once again named Australia’s best performing university in the QS World University Ranking by Subject being placed first nationally in 12 of the 30 disciplines. Its best performance was in education, where it was named the second best faculty in the world, behind the University of London’s Institute of Education, up from third last year. Melbourne also took the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Monash, Rankings, Research, The Scan, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, UNSW Tagged With: ,

The Scan December 2013

02/01/2014 by

2 January 2014 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... The 10 most viewed items on The Scan in December 2013, in order. .......................................................................................................................................................................................... Maddock steps down 2 December 2013    |   John Maddock, chief executive of Box Hill Institute in Melbourne has announced he will step down from the role at the conclusion of his contract on 7 December.After 14 years as chief executive, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: acer, ACPET, Box Hill Institute, Budget, Coalition policies, Federation University, Government, Higher education policy, Monash, National Tertiary Education Union, PISA, RMIT, TAFE, TAFE Directors Australia, The Scan, VET, Vocational education & training Tagged With: , , , , ,

Federation University’s season approaches

19/12/2013 by

19 December 2013 Federation University – a merger between the University of Ballarat and Monash University’s Gippsland campus – comes into being on 1 January 2013.  This “seasonal greeting” recounts the journey to this point.  Let’s wish them well.  See Ballarat becomes Fed Uni … [Read more...]

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Gardner appointed to Monash

17/12/2013 by

17 December 2013 Monash University Council has appointed Professor Margaret Gardner AO as the ninth Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, and the first woman to serve in the role. ____________________________________________________________________ Professor Gardner will commence on 1 September 2014, succeeding Professor Edward Byrne, who will become President and Principal at King’s College London. Professor Gardner is currently Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University. She previously held a range of senior academic roles, including serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at The University of Queensland. Professor Gardner led RMIT from a near financial meltdown in … [Read more...]

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Australian unis suffer reputational damage

04/10/2013 by
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4 October 2013 Australia's leading universities have generally gone backwards in the Times Higher Education rankings, which has been attributed to funding cuts announced by the previous government. The rankings are derived from a survey based on 13 performance indicators, across five areas,  ranging from teaching and research to international outlook. The University of Melbourne remains the highest ranked Australian university but fell six places from 28 to 34 while  Australian National University dropped 11 places from 37 to 48. The negative trend saw Sydney fall 10 places, the University of NSW down 22 places and Adelaide drop out of the top 200. The winners were the University … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Higher education policy, Monash, Rankings, Research, universities, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of NSW Tagged With: , ,

Fed U begins its rollout

02/10/2013 by
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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...]

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International student work rights threaten employment

27/09/2013 by

The Australian    |    27 September 2013 Coalition plans to give more international students post-study work rights could spark an enrolment boom in hospitality and graphic-arts diplomas, with the graduates monopolising entry-level jobs at a time of rising unemployment, according to Monash University demographer Bob Birrell. He said this would add to an already serious problem in a labour market with little growth. Education minister Christopher Pyne said this week he would review post-study work rights to help "repair" the international education industrybecause Labor had damaged the industry "by shutting down the capacity of international students to remain here … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coalition policies, Government, International, International students, Monash Tagged With: ,
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