Higher Education News Summary For September 2010

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Higher education news summary • September 2010
Higher education news summary for September 2010
Uni fees legislation likely to pass House of Reps

Student union fees to return
Govt reintroduces student fees bill
Walk a mile in students' shoes
The numbers are out - and they're not pretty
Quality conflict deemed unlikely
Voluntary student membership a step closer
Government Funding Fails To Keep Pace With University Costs
High marks for tertiary finances
Labor to bring back compulsory university amenities fees
Labor reintroduces student fees bill
Labor moves to reverse Howard's student-union laws
Parity call for VET students
Improved access needs on-campus support
UOW enrolment slump to cost region $9 mil
Labor has second shot at student services levy
I'm barely surviving
Students see the option of nonprofit jobs during career fair on campus
Minister meets WA’s tertiary education leaders
National Fails To Listen To Mainstream
Students fail to insure belongings
Uncertainty for student leaders
Australia's Chancellors Turn to New Government as Foreign Enrollments Drop
Title bout, but Oz academy has bigger fights ahead
Last year's grades may affect loan access
No gain without paying
Student membership Bill nears end of debate
From where I sit - Logos do not deliver popularity
Shergold to Head Advisory Group on Gambling
A vision for the future of the RMIT Quarter
First modular student housing stacks up at ANU
Group of Eight to boost standards with external examiners
Lecturers face up to post operatives
Text theft variously punished
Rumblings about the business of ranking
US stars lift UTS to the top
Regional unis must be community partners
Franchise deals only a short-term fix
Principles allow global assessment of postgrad degrees
Transgressing the boundaries
Tertiary regulator TEQSA stands alone
Call for mandatory 'green' study
UQ welcomes Japanese immersion students
Ministerial mess for higher education
Barbarians breach the halls of learning
The Macquarie University 2010 Vice-Chancellor's Annual Debate: 'Australia is producing too many
university graduates'
Murdoch University wields axe to find $20m savings
Union affiliation ‘to fire up’ student activism in city
How to save money on textbooks–rent them
Students Prefer Printed College Newspapers over Online
Adam Bandt launches social enterprise forum
Commercial pressures 'will shut a UK university'
Vale higher education
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Higher Education conference attacks rankings

Change in Victoria's funding system
Blurred sector seeking clarity
Universities welcome portfolio backflip
$20 million but no promise of a uni campus
Julia Gillard bows to unis, adds Tertiary Education to Chris Evans' title
Ranking shock has no impact
Word up as sector gets full portfolio in Labor government
Know thy students
Binge drinking, blackouts an increasing problem among college students
Gillard defends dismantling of portfolio
We need elite education at all levels of learning
The portfolio that dare not say its name
True measure? Rating the rankings ritual
Gillard rejects unis' complaint over failure to appoint education minister
Unis puzzled at PM's 'education' ditch
Unis hit Gillard cabinet changes
Fears higher education at risk of being devalued
Vice-chancellors relieved by Labor win
Gillard defends splitting up education portfolio
Australia: Policy paralysis will be costly
Editorial: Education is not a commodity
Setting Quality Standards in Higher Ed
From where I sit - Hanging in the balance
Australian Unis on a downward slide?
Aussies take one silver and three bronze at world uni champs
Graduates can afford to top up funding
Universities slide down world ranks
Staff levels at unis blamed for drop in world rankings
Independents win support for regions
Australian Universities Quality Agency gives Melbourne model a pass
Australia leads on foreign students
Int'l Journal of the First Year in Higher Education - submissions open
Student recruitment drive denied
Departure of overseas students will cost dearly, warn university chiefs
The decline of studying
Does Australia need to aim higher in higher education?
Immigration cuts would hit University funds
Students Head To Singapore And New Zealand On ANZ Scholarships
Call for clarity as TAFE-uni lines blur
NSW TAFE steps up to plate
Australia’s Real Deficit is in Higher Education: Finance Expert
eBooks: All In The Delivery
Farmers markets hit university campuses
Politics wanes on the digital campus
Talking up regional revolution
Graduate wage gap widens
Untangle web of qualifications
Macquarie University Gets A$450 Million of Financing
Universities expect to over-enrol on a large scale
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Uni fees legislation likely to pass House of Reps

ABC News
September 29 2010
The Federal Government is already targeting regional Australia, as the new Parliament gets down to
business today.
The Government has reintroduced a bill to give universities the option of charging students compulsory
fees for campus services…..
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http://bit.ly/93N4jI
Student union fees to return

The Age
September 30 2010
THE Gillard government appears set to overturn laws that banned universities from charging compulsory
student union fees.
Five years after the Howard government's so-called voluntary student unionism laws outlawed
compulsory non-academic fees, universities appear likely to win the right to charge fees to fund…..
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http://bit.ly/9Pp42S
Govt reintroduces student fees bill

The Sydney Morning Herald
September 29 2010
The federal government is once again trying to reinstate compulsory service fees for university students.
Higher Education Minister Chris Evans announced Labor would reintroduce draft laws setting up the levy
to parliament…..
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http://bit.ly/9jhu0j
Walk a mile in students' shoes

The Australian
September 29 2010
VCs could learn much from spending a week as 'customers', says Joseph Gora.
RECENTLY I was greatly impressed by the highly unpopular Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, who in
an effort to learn more about life on the job (as it were), decided to do a spell as…..
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http://bit.ly/c8ilYv
The numbers are out - and they're not pretty

Simon Marginson in The Age
September 28 2010
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THE Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently released
the 2010 edition of Education at a Glance. The report compares education in Australia with other
countries in 2007-08, just after 11 years of the Howard government, and has four…..
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http://bit.ly/aew6it
Quality conflict deemed unlikely

The Australian
September 29 2010
VICE-CHANCELLORS have been assured there is no conflict between the new tertiary regulator and the
Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
Universities Australia's chairman Peter Coaldrake emailed members after an article in last week's HES
touched a nerve…..
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http://bit.ly/btPmeg
Voluntary student membership a step closer

The Otago Daily Times
September 25 2010
Student association representatives are "appalled" that voluntary student membership has come a step
closer due to a select committee recommendation yesterday.
Parliament's Education and Science select committee reported back to Parliament yesterday,
recommending the Act New Zealand-sponsored Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
proceed with…..
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http://bit.ly/93D8ib
Government Funding Fails To Keep Pace With University Costs

Voxy, New Zealand
September 28 2010
Figures released by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) today comparing the financial information
of tertiary institutions between 2007 and 2009 are a testament to the sound financial management
shown by our nation's eight universities.
However, the increase in student numbers at our universities combined with the increase in university
costs…..
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High marks for tertiary finances

The New Zealand Herald
September 29 2010
The Government says tertiary funds are fine; institutions say the cost is student places.
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The Government says New Zealand's universities and polytechnics are financially strong - but universities
say funding pressures mean they will be turning away record numbers of students…..
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http://bit.ly/94RLtn
Labor to bring back compulsory university amenities fees

The Australian
September 29 2010
THE Gillard government will introduce legislation today to restore compulsory student amenities fees at
Australian universities.
Minister for Tertiary Education Minister, Senator Chris Evans, appealed today to the new parliament to
support the bill, saying he wanted it to be…..
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http://bit.ly/cRDary
Labor reintroduces student fees bill

SBS.com.au
September 29 2010
Higher Education Minister Chris Evans announced Labor would reintroduce draft laws setting up the levy
to parliament.
The federal government is once again trying to reinstate compulsory service fees for university
students…..
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http://bit.ly/c4w7BT
Labor moves to reverse Howard's student-union laws

September 29 2010
Howard-era laws that banned universities from charging compulsory student union fees are set to be
overturned.
Five years after the Howard Government's so-called Voluntary Student Unionism laws outlawed
compulsory non-academic fees, universities appear likely to win the right to…..
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http://bit.ly/aILJSW
Parity call for VET students

The Australian
September 29 2010
THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has backed the thrust of Victoria's skills
reforms.
The OECD has recommended that Australia adopt a student entitlement system for vocational education
and training in which students can choose…..
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http://bit.ly/995VNR
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Improved access needs on-campus support

The Australian
September 29 2010
RECRUITMENT finds the students; what happens after that determines how successful they will be.
US equity guru Vincent Tinto has it right when he argues in relation to non-traditional students that,
without support, access to university is…..
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http://bit.ly/cr52WN
UOW enrolment slump to cost region $9 mil

The Illawarra Mercury
September 27 2010
The region is set to lose more than $9 million in student spending next year, as the University of
Wollongong prepares for a dramatic drop in international student enrolments.
UOW is predicting a 15 per cent decrease in commencing international students, which it says is a direct
result of changes to skilled migration visa rules brought in…..
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http://bit.ly/9Xi56y
Labor has second shot at student services levy

September 27 2010
Labor will make another attempt this week to change the law to allow universities to charge students
compulsory fees to fund campus services such as sports facilities, health clinics and counselling.
Last year Labor proposed legislation to allow universities to levy annual fees of…..
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http://bit.ly/am6eDb
I'm barely surviving

The Age
September 27 2010
"I am a uni student and am seriously stressed about money. I have two part-time jobs but am barely
surviving and am behind with my uni work."
YOUR situation is very common among university students. Recent research involving almost 19,000
Australian students, in which I was involved, found that more than 70 per cent of…..
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Students see the option of nonprofit jobs during career fair on campus
The Eastern Echo, Michigan
September 26 2010
More than 200 Eastern Michigan University students took advantage of last Wednesday’s Nonprofit
Volunteer Career Fair in the Student Center Ballroom.
“[I attended the fair] to see what organizations are out there, so I can get involved in the EMU
community,” EMU junior Jessica Horne said.
More than 20 organizations took part in this event, which was open to the public and…..
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Minister meets WA’s tertiary education leaders

Media Release: Senator the Hon Christopher Evans
September 17 2010
The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today met Western Australian University Vice-
Chancellors and the State Minister for Education, Dr Liz Constable, to discuss the future direction of
Australia’s higher education sector.
Attending a meeting of the Western Australian Higher Education Council at…..
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National Fails To Listen To Mainstream

Voxy, New Zealand
September 24 2010
Students are slamming today's Select Committee recommendation that the Act Party's Education
(Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill go forward. The recommendation ignores the 98% of
submissions against it and is putting students' services, representation, and the quality of…..
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http://bit.ly/c61XEb
Students fail to insure belongings

UK Press Association
September 25 2010
The typical student takes more than £2,000-worth of belongings to university but less than half of these
are insured, a survey has suggested.
The average student has possessions worth £2,076 with them at university, according to…..
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http://bit.ly/cBt3d0
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Uncertainty for student leaders

The Otago Daily Times, NZ
September 24 2010
Between them, the Otago University Students' Association and the Otago Polytechnic Students'
Association collected more than $3.7 million this year from almost 30,000 members, but their revenue
base could dry up overnight if Act New Zealand's Voluntary Student Membership Bill is passed. Tertiary
education reporter Allison Rudd investigates whether the associations would…..
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http://bit.ly/9mdYjL
Australia's Chancellors Turn to New Government as Foreign Enrollments Drop

The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 22 2010
Universities are asking her to help curb the decline in international students.Enlarge Image
With a newly elected Labor government in Australia, the country's universities are looking for federal
help to fix a pressing problem: the sharp decline in international students.
Enrollment of overseas students has dropped in recent months because of…..
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Title bout, but Oz academy has bigger fights ahead

Times Higher Education, UK
September 23 2010
Ministerial 'bungle' distracts attention from sector's major problems. Simon Baker writes
University leaders in Australia are attempting to move on from a row with the new Labor government
that has hindered efforts to pressure politicians into tackling the urgent problems facing…..
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http://bit.ly/bJ1lrn
Last year's grades may affect loan access

TVNZ
September 22 2010
University and polytech students say they are shocked to find out that last year's grades could
determine their access to student loans next year.
In May, the government announced that those students who failed half their courses would not get…..
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http://bit.ly/cmtkUV
No gain without paying

The Australian
September 22 2010
ABN: 56 168 491 622 8
CORPORATE rip-offs mean students get slugged extra even for basics.
A FRIEND of mine who happens to be a single parent, visually disabled and battling serious illness,
contacted me recently to vent her spleen. Through a volley of choice expletives she told of a contagious
disease that has infected the university…..
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http://bit.ly/c9tXsh
Student membership Bill nears end of debate

Tertiary Education Union, New Zealand
September 23 2010
The Education and Science Select Committee is due to report back to Parliament next week on the ACT
Party’s Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill which would impose voluntary student
membership on students’ associations around New Zealand. The Committee received more than 4400
submissions, with an overwhelming…..
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http://bit.ly/c0Ui48
From where I sit - Logos do not deliver popularity

Times Higher Education, UK
September 23 2010
I bumped into a colleague the other day who expressed her relief at the outcome of the Australian
election. The result had hung in the balance for two weeks and could have gone either way before
Labor's eventual…..
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Shergold to Head Advisory Group on Gambling

ProBonoAustralia.com.au
September 22 2010
Former Howard Government Department head and current CEO of the Centre for Social Impact, Prof
Peter Shergold is to lead a new advisory group on poker machines.
The Ministerial Advisory Group on Gambling has been set up as part of an agreement between the
Labor Government and Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie as part of the discussions after…..
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http://bit.ly/dxjASB
A vision for the future of the RMIT Quarter

RMIT News
September 22 2010
RMIT University has unveiled its vision for the northern end of Melbourne's CBD, in a stunning animated
preview that comes as works begin on the landmark Swanston Academic Building.
The University last week appointed Brookfield Multiplex as the contractor for the pioneering $200-plus
million development, which will wrap around the historic Oxford Scholar hotel on…..
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http://bit.ly/bYZErW
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First modular student housing stacks up at ANU

ANU News
September 22 2010
Australia’s first medium rise, modular accommodation for students has been officially opened at The
Australian National University.
“The Laurus Wing of Ursula Hall will provide purpose-built accommodation for 213 students, with…..
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http://bit.ly/cxaLNy
Group of Eight to boost standards with external examiners

The Australian
September 22 2010
THE Group of Eight universities plans to up the ante in the standards debate by establishing Australia's
first system of external examiners.
Richard Henry, who serves on the revamped Go8 academic policy committee, said the group hoped the
initiative would help the new regulator stay true to its promise of "light-touch" supervision. "So when [the
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency] talks about…..
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Lecturers face up to post operatives

The Australian
September 22 2010
MY Lecturer, a new website for students to rate their teachers, began as Facebook banter and draws
inspiration from toilet graffiti.
This will come as no surprise to those who say Australia is in for a tawdry rerun of the US site Rate My
Professors, where…..
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http://bit.ly/bzcYFC
Text theft variously punished

The Australian
September 22 2010
AN estimated 10,000 students a year are subjected to disciplinary action across Australia's universities,
most of them for plagiarism allegations.
The research, published in Australian Universities Review, found wide variations in rates of plagiarism
cases between universities, pointing to inconsistencies about what constitutes plagiarism when…..
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http://bit.ly/diDBEB
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Rumblings about the business of ranking

The Australian
September 22 2010
CHANGES to a university are like turning around the Titanic.
THE mood in the Australian higher education sector towards university league tables has shifted gear,
from resigned acceptance to increasing resentment.
It has been a contentious few weeks as three key international rankings were released along with…..
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http://bit.ly/8ZUT13
US stars lift UTS to the top

The Australian
September 22 2010
THE University of Technology, Sydney has emerged as an economics powerhouse thanks to star recruits.
The RePEc ranking is primarily based on citations
THE University of Technology, Sydney has emerged as an economics powerhouse thanks to…..
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Regional unis must be community partners

The Australian
September 22 2010
CAMPUSES outside the metropolitan area can play a broader role in engaging with their regions.
THE wind has shifted and we are all regional now.
To date, the main focus of the debate about regional universities since the Bradley report has been on
what to do about the significantly lower participation of regional populations in…..
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Franchise deals only a short-term fix

The Australian
September 22 2010
EXPANDING higher education through franchising deals between universities and TAFE colleges is a
short-term fix rather than a long-term strategy..
Gareth Parry, professor of education at Sheffield University and an authority on relations between
English universities and further education colleges, said the weakness of franchising was that it tended to
subordinate the…..
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http://bit.ly/col84J
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Principles allow global assessment of postgrad degrees

The Australian
September 22 2010
HIGHER education leaders from 17 countries last week agreed to a set of principles for assessing the
quality of postgraduate education and research training.
Employment skills, research supervision structures, student experience, research impact and
communication, and interdisciplinary and global research experiences underpin the new…..
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http://bit.ly/aPtxOG
Transgressing the boundaries

The Australian
September 22 2010
UNIVERSITIES are increasingly crossing over into the previously TAFE-only field of vocational training.
THE expansion of degrees offered by TAFE institutes and private vocational colleges has attracted
attention recently, but the expansion of universities into vocational education and training has…..
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http://bit.ly/du6QPl
Tertiary regulator TEQSA stands alone

The Australian
September 22 2010
DENISE Bradley, interim chairwoman of TEQSA, has distanced the new regulator from an attempt to
pioneer an academic standards system.
Some have seen this project, run by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, as a precursor to a
TEQSA system for…..
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http://bit.ly/9vAXn4
Call for mandatory 'green' study

September 20 2010
University students would be required to undertake ''environmental literacy'' subjects covering basic
climate science and how their chosen field of study contributes to climate change under a proposal from
the National Tertiary Education Union.
The union, which represents academics and other university staff, says students are not…..
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http://bit.ly/beADqW
UQ welcomes Japanese immersion students

UQ News
September 20 2010
Seven students from Wakayama University in Japan recently toured UQ as part of a two-week
immersion course in Australian education and culture.
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The tech-savvy group visited UQ's School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies (SLCCS) as
part of a longstanding agreement between…..
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Ministerial mess for higher education

University World News
September 19 2010
For a brief time last week, Australia was without a federal Minister of Education. It was yet another
weird byproduct of the most bizarre election in Australian history and media commentators pointed to
the peculiarity of Australia joining Canada as the only two countries that had universities in the top 100
rankings but no…..
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Barbarians breach the halls of learning

The Australian
September 18 2010
Do we undervalue education when we regard its ends to be skills and jobs?
THERE was a time when government ministries possessed a certain grandeur. Call me old-fashioned but I
rather liked it when ministers didn't have long and inelegant job titles; when they were simply
responsible for the treasury, war, interior, or external…..
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The Macquarie University 2010 Vice-Chancellor's Annual Debate: 'Australia is producing too many
university graduates'
Higher education has never been so popular. Around the world young people are flocking to universities
in the hope that a degree will propel them into the best jobs available.
It is has been estimated that over the next 30 years Australia will need to build around 24 new
universities and recruit some 26,000 extra academic staff in order to cope with the demand for…..
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Murdoch University wields axe to find $20m savings

The Australian
September 15 2010
MURDOCH University will cut its faculties, set a minimum size for schools and reduce salary budgets to
find $20 million in savings as it gears up for tougher competition in the sector.
But in his email to staff last week endorsing the outcome of an academic review, vice-chancellor John
Yovich said he believed "significant staff losses" would…..
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Union affiliation ‘to fire up’ student activism in city

The Bellarine Independent
September 16 2010
DEAKIN University students are set to put up “more of a fight” over campus issues after their
representative body affiliated with Australia’s National Student Union, according to a representative.
Deakin University Student Association (DUSA) has joined National Union of Students (NUS) for the first
time in 10 years after…..
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How to save money on textbooks–rent them

Macleans.ca, Canada
September 15 2010
Textbook rentals have stormed onto Canadian campuses, but not without some opposition
Shocked by the nearly $1,000 you dropped on textbooks this fall? Maybe it’s time to rent. Big business
at American universities, textbook rentals have stormed onto Canadian campuses, but not without a little
opposition. While the idea may prove popular with some students, a limited number of titles available
for rent could see the program…..
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http://bit.ly/9sWE1g
Students Prefer Printed College Newspapers over Online

Poynter.org
September 14 2010
Students have returned to college campuses armed with laptops, smart phones and countless other
electronic gadgets. Yet most still turn to a print newspaper for their campus news.
The printed versions of college newspapers continue to thrive, with students grabbing copies as they go
from one class to another. It's not unusual to see students reading about the latest campus news while…..
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http://bit.ly/bVy1LP
Adam Bandt launches social enterprise forum

RMIT News
September 13 2010
Adam Bandt, the newly elected Greens member for Melbourne, launched a forum at the State Library
of Victoria (SLV) to explore a collaboration between SLV and RMIT University that aims to foster
socially driven programs across…..
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Commercial pressures 'will shut a UK university'

BBC, UK
September 14 2010
There are fears about the financial future of some UK universities

Nine out of 10 university leaders believe a UK university will shut down because of financial pressures in
the next decade, suggests a survey.
Researchers examined deputy vice chancellors' views about an increasingly competitive commercial
environment in…..
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Vale higher education

Steven Schwartz, VC Macquarie University
September 14 2010
Remember the Federal Government's education revolution? It now appears the revolution has taken a
peculiar postmodernist turn: the word "education" has disappeared to be replaced by others such as
skills, research, and innovation.
For the first time in many years no Australian federal minister has "education" in…..
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http://bit.ly/djw2TW
Higher Education conference attacks rankings

September 14 2010
With the international university rankings season underway, higher education policy-makers and leaders
have criticised league tables for distorting university priorities during a major global recession.
Delegates speaking at a three-day OECD conference in Paris said rankings did not help. Vice-
chancellor of California State University, Charles Reed, caused a stir when he described…..
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Change in Victoria's funding system

The Australian
September 15 2010
VICTORIA'S Education Minister Bronwyn Pike yesterday flagged significant changes to the state's
market-demand driven system.
A pending independent review of changes to how TAFE operates in the state is expected to address
concerns that some groups, such as mature-age students, will be disadvantaged, especially in…..
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http://bit.ly/cUHaZ7
ABN: 56 168 491 622 15
Blurred sector seeking clarity

The Australian
September 15 2010
UNIVERSITIES may complain that commonwealth funding doesn't cover the cost of teaching, but the
chairman of TAFE Directors Australia believes the funding rate is "pretty reasonable".
The comments at the TAFE Directors Australia conference in Melbourne this week highlight the lower cost
structures of TAFEs that don't offer…..
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http://bit.ly/coi3NJ
Universities welcome portfolio backflip

The Age
September 14 2010
Universities have welcomed the federal government's decision to change the name of one of its
portfolios to acknowledge the higher education sector.
But, they say, it's still not clear which minister will be in charge of postgraduate…..
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http://bit.ly/94zayG
$20 million but no promise of a uni campus

Port Macquarie News
September 13 2010
THE $20 million set aside for a multi-partner university campus on the Mid-North Coast does not
guarantee a new campus will be built.
A campus is one of several options being explored in a feasibility study now underway.
Other possibilities include an expansion of Port Macquarie’s existing TAFE campus with…..
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Julia Gillard bows to unis, adds Tertiary Education to Chris Evans' title
The Australian
September 14 2010
JULIA Gillard has been forced to make four changes to her ministers' titles since naming her team on
Saturday.
Ms Gillard bowed to pressure today from the higher education sector and added Tertiary Education to
Senator Chris Evans' job title of Jobs, Skills and Workplace Relations Minister…..
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ABN: 56 168 491 622 16
Ranking shock has no impact

The Australian
September 15 2010
AUSTRALIAN universities have responded with a deafening silence to their contentious downgrading in
last week's Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings.
Seventeen of the 25 Australian institutions that made QS's top 500 were downgraded from the previous
year, with La Trobe and Queensland University of Technology each…..
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http://bit.ly/cf6ETS
Word up as sector gets full portfolio in Labor government

The Australian
September 15 2010
CHRIS Evans, the new minister with responsibility for the university sector, had his portfolio title changed
yesterday just hours before being sworn in by Governor-General Quentin Bryce.
The alteration, which added tertiary education to the previous portfolio of jobs, skills and workplace
relations, came less than 48 hours after…..
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http://bit.ly/bnEuD7
Know thy students

The Australian
September 15 2010
AROUND my campus I often hear that students aren't what they used to be. This is, of course, true. And it
has always been true. As an undergraduate in the early 1980s, I heard lecturers making the same
comment, and my father reports he encountered the same thing as an undergraduate two decades
earlier. There are even records of it being said in the 30s. It seems that every generation feels…..
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Binge drinking, blackouts an increasing problem among college students

Ball State University, USA
September 14 2010
Despite Ball State’s efforts to curb binge alcohol use, heavy drinking remains a problem for some
students, a problem bigger than just the next day’s hangover.
“We see a lot of people with physical injuries, broken bones, bruises or sprains and cuts ... from falling
and hurting themselves while they’re intoxicated,” Dr. Kent Bullis, medical director of…..
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ABN: 56 168 491 622 17
Gillard defends dismantling of portfolio

The Australian
September 14 2010
JULIA Gillard's office has denied that the failure to appoint a minister for education was designed to
change the focus of the portfolio.
Universities have attacked the decision not to have a minister for education, forcing…..
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We need elite education at all levels of learning

The Australian
September 14 2010
A FIRST-CLASS education system for Australia requires elite skills training as well as an elite university
sector - not an undifferentiated combination of the two.
Julia Gillard's rather odd decision to govern without an education minister and to split schools, TAFE,
undergraduate and postgraduate responsibilities three ways is not necessarily a blueprint for…..
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The portfolio that dare not say its name

The Age
September 14 2010
FOR the first time in living memory, Australia is without a federal Minister of Education.
In yet another weird byproduct of the most bizarre election in recent history, the nation now has a
former pop star as Minister for Schools but no one with responsibility for the entire $33 billion-a-year
education system, with its vast matrix of preschools, schools, TAFE institutes and universities.
Did it slip Prime Minister Julia Gillard's mind when she was working on…..
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True measure? Rating the rankings ritual

The Age
September 14 2010
EINSTEIN once said: "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts
cannot necessarily be counted." Who knows what the genius would have made of the 21st-century
emergence of world university rankings? Perhaps, like many of his academic successors, he would accept
that in an era of unprecedented student mobility and global competition for talent, rankings are…..
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Gillard rejects unis' complaint over failure to appoint education minister

The Australian
September 13 2010
UNIVERSITIES have attacked the failure to appoint an education minister in Julia Gillard's ministerial
shake-up, forcing the Prime Minister to defend the changes today. While several cabinet level ministers
will retain responsibility for education, responsibilities for schools, universities and postrgraduate studies
will be split between…..
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Unis puzzled at PM's 'education' ditch

September 13 2010
The universities sector is puzzled by Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to drop the word education
from her new-look cabinet. Higher education, which previously came under the education portfolio, will
fall under a skills ministry that Senator Chris Evans will oversee along with…..
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http://bit.ly/cmGspu
Unis hit Gillard cabinet changes

The Age
September 13 2010
TOP universities have blasted Julia Gillard's cabinet reshuffle, saying her decision to place higher
education under the skills portfolio - and not have ''education'' in any minister's title - devalued the
importance of…..
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Fears higher education at risk of being devalued

The Australian
September 13 2010
UNIVERSITIES yesterday warned higher learning risked being devalued. The warning came after the
ministry shake-up dropped "education" and put higher education in the skills portfolio…..
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Vice-chancellors relieved by Labor win

September 12 2010
"When it comes to elections there are odd results, strange results and bizarre results; Australia has just
managed to achieve the surreal," wrote Professor Greg Craven last week. The vice-chancellor of the
Australian Catholic University was commenting in the Melbourne Age newspaper on the outcome of the
Australian election - nearly three weeks after…..
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Gillard defends splitting up education portfolio

ABC News
September 12 2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Senator Chris Evans have defended the decision to split up the
Education portfolio between two ministers in yesterday's Cabinet shake-up.
Ms Gillard has scrapped the title of education minister and appointed Peter Garrett as the Minister for
Schools, Early Childhood and Youth, while Chris Evans becomes Minister for Jobs, Skills and…..
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http://bit.ly/bFK8mp
Australia: Policy paralysis will be costly

September 12 2010
After an unedifying election, with a vacuous flogging-to-death of fragmented pop-policy positions, we

face a compromised government that will be on a re-election footing from its outset. Coherent policy
ideas are not likely to emanate from that cauldron. Courageous policy, never an easy thing, will be
back-burnered by…..
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http://bit.ly/cGLN46
Editorial: Education is not a commodity

The New Zealand Herald
September 12 2010
Given the funding environment in which our universities operate, it is remarkable how little they have
fallen in the latest international survey.
The highly regarded QS World University rankings this week showed that all New Zealand universities
had…..
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Setting Quality Standards in Higher Ed

InsideHigherEd.com
September 09 2010
The growing chorus of criticism of U.S. higher education is focusing on quality, and rightly so. Quality is
or should be the central issue in the higher education enterprise. It is too often overlooked in the quest
for reform and change in other important areas such as cost containment, expansion, accessibility and
higher graduation rates. We should always be on the lookout for ways to improve…..
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From where I sit - Hanging in the balance

Simon Marginson in Times Higher Education
September 09 2010
The federal election in Australia on 21 August left the country with a hung Parliament and three
independents from rural electorates holding the balance of power.
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The election result also left the higher education system in limbo at a more than usually crucial time, with
a long list of unanswered questions and a funding base in…..
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Australian Unis on a downward slide?

The Age
September 09 2010
University chiefs are relying on independent MPs to pressure the government to boost public funding of
universities.
Among rural independent, Rob Oakeshott's gripes was the "crisis in regional education". It was a
reference to cuts the Coalition had…..
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Aussies take one silver and three bronze at world uni champs
Australian University Sport
September 01 2010
Australia’s university championship medal tally has been boosted once again with the addition of one
silver and three bronze following the World University Championship Sprint Canoe in Poznan…..
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Graduates can afford to top up funding

Andrew Norton in The Australian
September 08 2010
THE new government faces the same old problem: too many demands, too little money.
In higher education, the key issue of funding rate per student remains unresolved. When it reports in
2011, the promised review of base funding levels will almost certainly recommend higher rates for…..
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Universities slide down world ranks

New Zealand Herald
September 08 2010
New Zealand universities have all dropped places in a major international poll, with the University of
Auckland the only one in the top 100.
The survey of the world's top educational institutions ranked the University of Auckland in 68th place - a
fall of seven spots from last year. The university, which has 38,500 students, peaked at…..
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Staff levels at unis blamed for drop in world rankings

September 08 2010
MOST of Australia's universities have lost ground in world rankings, putting pressure on them to improve
their ratios of staff to students to remain internationally competitive.
Of the 25 Australian universities placed in the top 500 internationally, 18 have fallen in the
international comparisons since…..
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http://bit.ly/cZsLFG
Independents win support for regions

The Australian
September 08 2010
LABOR'S new minority government will deliver a better and more certain outcome for the Bradley
reform agenda.
"It means stability and continuity because the government's higher education reform package is a known
quantity," said Peter Coaldrake, chairman of Universities Australia…..
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Australian Universities Quality Agency gives Melbourne model a pass

The Australian
September 08 2010
THE University of Melbourne has been commended by the national quality assurance agency for
monitoring and improving its new Melbourne model but was also cautioned that there needs to be
greater attention to ensuring schools and employers are aware of its aims and outcomes.
"While the implementation of the model is proceeding, the university's success in achieving its desired
outcomes will not be apparent for some years," the Australian Universities Quality Agency said…..
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Australia leads on foreign students

The Age
September 08 2010
AUSTRALIA has the highest proportion of international students enrolled in its tertiary institutions in the
world, according to an international study.
The OECD's Education at a Glance report, released last night, found one in five students in tertiary
education in Australia in 2008 was from overseas. Australia was ahead of Austria, which had 15.5 per
cent foreign students…..
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Int'l Journal of the First Year in Higher Education - submissions open

September 07 2010
The call for submissions for Volume 2, Issue 1 of The International Journal of the First Year in Higher
Education (Int J FYHE) is now open. Submissions will close on October 18, 2010 and Volume 2, Issue 1
will be published in February, 2011.
The Int J FYHE is hosted by the First Year in Higher Education virtual centre and…..
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Student recruitment drive denied

ABC News
September 07 2010
The Skills Institute says teachers have productivity targets, but they are not expected to recruit students.
(ABC News)
There is concern Tasmania's Skills Institute could soon be competing with the Polytechnic for…..
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Departure of overseas students will cost dearly, warn university chiefs

The Age
September 07 2010
MONASH University vice-chancellor Ed Byrne has warned that continuing decline in the number of
overseas students will endanger universities, and seriously harm higher education.
The comments came as the vice-chancellors of Australia's top research universities wrote to…..
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The decline of studying

Macleans.ca, Canada
September 05 2010
How university students are spending less time hitting the books while earning better grades than ever
In 2006, Philip Babcock, a labour economist at the University of California, was surfing online when he
came across a survey on the time use of undergraduate students at his school that shocked him. He
noticed students were reporting perplexingly low studying times. Comparing his own university
experience to his teaching experience over the past five years, Babcock had…..
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http://bit.ly/blTmoZ
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Does Australia need to aim higher in higher education?

The Drum, ABC
September 06 2010
The recent election campaign saw few new ideas from either the Government or Opposition in the area
of higher education. And while a lot of change has occurred in the sector over the last three years to
improve equity access and the number of available places, we must be mindful that other countries are
implementing their own initiatives that pose a threat to Australia's ability to have an internationally
competitive workforce in…..
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Immigration cuts would hit University funds

September 04 2010
THE appalling bipartisan consensus on immigration that emerged during the federal election campaign
could combine with subdued markets to produce a cash flow crisis in Australia's universities.
The business model they adopted in response to reduced government support sees them source…..
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Students Head To Singapore And New Zealand On ANZ Scholarships

Voxy.co.nz
September 02 2010
ANZ today announced two New Zealand university students will head to Singapore and two Singapore
university students will come to New Zealand after being awarded new ANZ scholarships…..
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Call for clarity as TAFE-uni lines blur

The Australian
September 01 2010
AUSTRALIA needs an independent classification body to make tough decisions on "what is what" and
"who is who" as the lines blur between universities and TAFE institutes, education policy expert Simon
Marginson has urged.
Speaking at a University of Melbourne seminar last week, Professor Marginson said…..
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NSW TAFE steps up to plate

The Australian
September 01 2010
THE monolithic NSW TAFE system will deliver higher education qualifications from next year, starting
with a few niche degrees in high-demand areas.
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But its main focus will be on working with universities to develop pathways into higher education via
associate degrees, particularly in areas identified for…..
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Australia’s Real Deficit is in Higher Education: Finance Expert

UWA News
August 19 2010
Forget the budget deficit. Forget the current account deficit. Australia's real problem, says The
University of Western Australia Business School Accounting and Finance Professor Ray da Silva Rosa, is
a brains deficit.
It wasn't so long ago that politicians were talking about a creative economy, a knowledge nation, a
country founded on innovation. In the 2001 election campaign…..
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eBooks: All In The Delivery

InsideHigherEd.com
August 31 2010
With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year
higher education finally embraces the e-book?
Some think that developments since the last buying cycle, particularly the arrival of Apple's iPad
computing tablet, might foreshadow an especially good year for the electronic texts. CourseSmart, the
e-textbook consortium comprising five major publishers, says it has sold four times more e-textbooks in
2009-10 than …..
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Farmers markets hit university campuses

Macleans.ca, Canada
August 27 2010
From Halifax to Vancouver fresh food and vegetables are being brought to students
Fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables and other artisanal products are turning up on Canadian
campuses as students embrace the trend of shopping at farmers markets. McMaster University in
Hamilton has just launched a market, the result of student Mary Koziol’s passion for local food. It runs
every Thursday in…..
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Politics wanes on the digital campus

The Age
August 31 2010
Everyone says uni life isn't what it used to be. Liz Porter, a student in the so-called golden age 40 years
ago, returns to Monash - and feels pangs of envy.
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I STAND at the base of the Ming Wing, as we used to call the 11-storey Robert Menzies humanities
building, and look across at the bland, sand-coloured facade of Monash University's Campus Centre…..
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Talking up regional revolution

The Australian
September 01 2010
A MINI-EDUCATION revolution talked up by independent MP Rob Oakeshott could be tried elsewhere

in regional Australia.
Mr Oakeshott has championed regional development that places tertiary education at its centre for the
mid-north coast of…..
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Graduate wage gap widens

The Australian
September 01 2010
THE wage gap between male and female graduates widened in the three years to last year.
Women are earning $7200 less a year than their male counterparts.
In the first study of how graduates fared three years after leaving university, the gender wage gap for
full-time employed graduates blew out from 6 per cent to…..
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Untangle web of qualifications

The Australian
September 01 2010
IN the next decade tertiary education in Australia will be transformed.
About three-quarters of the Australian population will have a tertiary qualification. This is occurring
while tertiary education is becoming globalised. International benchmarks for university quality are
becoming more important and prevalent; international flows of students moving to study continue to
expand; and the Bologna process to ensure that European qualifications are…..
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Macquarie University Gets A$450 Million of Financing

Bloomberg
August 31 2010
Macquarie University, a college in Australia’s biggest city, got A$450 million ($400 million) of financing
from loans and a debut bond sale to help pay for upgrading its campus.
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The university sold A$250 million of 10-year bonds priced to yield 170 basis points more than the swap
rate, according to an e-mailed statement from Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., which…..
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Universities expect to over-enrol on a large scale

The Australian
September 01 2010
ALMOST half of Australia's universities expect to over-enrol this year, to the point where they have
substantial numbers of students who do not bring in any federal teaching subsidy.
On early figures, 18 institutions have told the federal Education Department they expect to go above
the 10 per cent funding cap, meaning they are recruiting…..
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