NZ and Australian Higher Education News April 2011

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New Zealand & Australian Higher Education news: April 2011
Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

Students want a career in academe
Generalist degrees broaden young minds
TAFE to follow American community college learning path
Shift to broader ranking system
New standards agency loosens grip of states
As universities expand students or the state will pay more for higher education
Record number of Australian students at university
Resignations at top of OUSA
JCU: just watch as we grow
Ballarat university enrolments skyrocket
ANU students crammed in
Interview with Steven Joyce - transcript
New breed of entrepreneurs turn profits to social ends
Student ranks swell by 50,000
Education and aspiration keys to membership of an open society
Growth in uni places good for economy, says Labor
Uni student numbers on the rise
Funding needs a long-term solution: Glyn Davis
Private providers lift their load
Forecast for fewer qualified students
Press Release: Student Volunteer Army’s mission to Japan
International Recognition Of Student Volunteer Army Demonstrates Power Of Students
Broadsides: Student loans (Jacinda Ardern, Nikki Kaye)
Sydney's skint but smart set: how students survive below the poverty line
Wollongong imports British vice-chancellor
Ian Chubb will be a chief scientist hard to ignore
Unis reject state role in TEQSA
Vice-chancellors cool on research paper
Research won't get funding boost
Student loan changes 'pick on the elderly'
Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education
Australian Universities Take Steps to Increase Numbers of Indigenous Students and Academics
Endeavour Awards provide life changing opportunities
Uni report adds to scrutiny on Behrendt
Q+A's Paul Holmes Interviews Tertiary Minister, Steven Joyce
Closing the gap in Indigenous higher education
Australian Scholarships Foundation
National Survey of Young Australians
Building Partnerships between Government & Not-For-Profits Conference
Doctor dream at a nightmare $230,000
A higher degree of opportunity coming soon
Students facing tougher entry to teaching degrees
Students key agents of change in inner city apartment market
Research Conference 2011: Indigenous Education: Pathways to success
Sydney ditches other unis to snare best medical students
Universities' value to economy 'overlooked and underrated'
TEQSA statute vulnerable to High Court challenge
Information overload or creative knowledge?
Flight from private providers has big cost
Soft marking net may be cast wider
TAFE diplomas losing their vocation
Brave decisions required
Unis looking to admit all schools' top pupils
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Are we too clever for our own good?

Australia pioneers portal for sustainability on campus
South Australia plans SARDI and Adelaide University merger
The trouble with homes away from home
Bernard Salt to deliver inaugural Chancellor's Lecture
Unis call for big boost in funding
Chifley Young Leaders Awards announced
Otago Polytechnic eyes term changes
Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector
Base funding review in sights
Paper 'blames students' over visa influx
Australian Technology Network calls for paid interns
ERA prompts focus on teaching
UWA hits paydirt with mining boom
Business ideas have great value
Razor gang eyed university indexation
Melbourne urges fee umpire to take heat out of debate
Glyn Davis calls for uni funding shake-up
National Youth Week kicks off across Australia
No place for People and Place
Companies must support and guide education sector
Too early to reconsider student cap
Roy: The Moral Issue Of Interest-Free Student Loans
La Trobe's Johnson goes west
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Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

The Australian
April 27 2011
MACQUARIE University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz has admitted his institution will face a funding
crisis next year if forecasts for falling Chinese student enrolments are accurate.
Immigration officials have signalled visa applications from China are down 20 per cent, but education
industry insiders believe the slump could be even more severe....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/hN8my
Students want a career in academe

The Australian
April 27 2011
FEARS that Australia won't be able to replenish its academic and research workforce may be
contradicted in a yet-to-be released government report.
But while the National Research Student Survey, obtained in draft form by the HES, shows more than
half of those surveyed plan to pursue such a career, it also reveals 40 per cent expect to do so
overseas....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/jkTxF
Generalist degrees broaden young minds

The Australian
April 27 2011
NEXT year the University of Western Australia moves to a new model of education.
It is similar to the American model, which requires students to complete a generalist undergraduate
degree before specialising with a postgraduate degree in fields such as medicine, law and
engineering....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/gFSGd
TAFE to follow American community college learning path

The Australian
April 27 2011
TAFE NSW is to offer two-year associate degrees with guaranteed articulation into university where a
full degree will be conferred after further two years' study....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ospau
Shift to broader ranking system

The Australian
April 27 2011
SEVEN Australian universities are trialling a new international rankings system that aims to broaden the
criteria on which institutions are judged beyond traditional research metrics.
Attracted by the search for diversification, the Australians are also keen to identify universities similar....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/hnjFc
New standards agency loosens grip of states

The Australian
April 27 2011
UNDER the Constitution, responsibility for education resides with the states. And so it was that the states
were the primary funders of higher education until 1975, when the Whitlam government negotiated the
transfer of funding responsibility for higher education to the commonwealth....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/1Llhb
As universities expand students or the state will pay more for higher education
The Australian
April 26 2011
Either the state or students will bear the cost of expanding university systems, the incoming vice
chancellor of the University of Wollongong has warned as English students face a near 300 per cent in
the cost of many courses from next year....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/FHlUy
Record number of Australian students at university

Media release: Senator the Hon Christopher Evans
April 23 2011
More Australian students than ever before have the opportunity of a university education as a result of
the Government’s landmark higher education reforms.
The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed data showing....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/TSzZM
Resignations at top of OUSA

Otago Daily Times
April 26 2011
Uncertainty over the future has forced the Otago University Students Association (OUSA) to bring in a
business consultant to plug the gap left by the resignation of its general manager....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/TaFPI
JCU: just watch as we grow

The Cairns Post
April 25 2011
JAMES Cook University has been recognised as one of the fastest-growing regional universities in
Australia and it won't be slowing down any time soon.
Minister for Tertiary Education Chris Evans has released new figures showing that enrolments in regional
universities are on the rise....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/vcxYN
Ballarat university enrolments skyrocket

The Courier
April 24 2011
STUDENT numbers at Ballarat universities are growing faster than most universities in Australia.
New data released by the federal government shows student enrolment in Ballarat has increased in
recent years, which is in line with the rest of the nation....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/YtxJG
ANU students crammed in

The Canberra Times
April 24 2011
AUSTRALIAN National University students say they are living in cramped rooms and pay too much for
parking.
Some of the rooms appear no bigger than ACT jail cells.
Cash-strapped students at UniGardens claim they are being slugged $50 a week for parking costs, $5
per wash in laundry charges and endure unsatisfactory living conditions. They have been given bus
passes to travel the 6km from Belconnen to campus....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/A9Emx
Interview with Steven Joyce - transcript

ONE News, New Zealand
April 17 2011
PAUL Thank you for coming on.
STEVEN JOYCE - Tertiary Education Minister

Not a problem.
PAUL Is National committed to interest-free student loans?
MR JOYCE Yes, we are. We believe we can actually do a heck of a lot better in terms of getting loan
repayments and getting the cost of debt down. But we have accepted the political consensus on interest-
free student loans....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/S3plq
New breed of entrepreneurs turn profits to social ends

The Sydney Morning Herald
April 24 2011
BUSINESS schools took a long hard look at themselves after the global financial crisis. Were they
responsible for churning out ready-made ''millionaires by 30'' who caused the mess?
Full article:
http://goo.gl/IpP1l
Student ranks swell by 50,000

The Australian
April 23 2011
THE number of domestic students studying at universities has surged by 50,000 in the past two years, a
trend the government says will help meet the growing demand for skilled staff....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/dD3nU
Education and aspiration keys to membership of an open society

The Australian
April 23 2011
LARISSA Behrendt is an Aboriginal success story. Like Barack Obama she is a graduate of Harvard Law,
except she gained both masters and a doctorate from the world's most famous law school....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/qWxU0
Growth in uni places good for economy, says Labor

April 23 2011
UNIVERSITIES have enrolled an extra 50,000 undergraduates over the past two years, as they position
themselves for the uncapping of students places next year....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/6J5gu
Uni student numbers on the rise

ABC.net.au
April 23 2011
The Federal Government has released new figures showing the number of students at Australian
universities has grown by an average of 10 per cent over the last two years....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/rLkhX
Funding needs a long-term solution: Glyn Davis

The Australian
April 20 2011
WITH reforms to enrolments, funding and quality control under way or under review, the incoming
chairman of Universities Australia has said the higher education sector is at risk of becoming victim to
policy incoherence at a critical juncture....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/3flrM
Private providers lift their load

The Australian
April 20 2011
THE federal government introduced FEE-HELP for full fee-paying students at private providers in 2005
when 33 private providers reported just under 13,000 equivalent full time student load....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/2Jb8l
Forecast for fewer qualified students

The Australian
April 20 2011
THE pool of international students qualified to enter English-language universities is smaller than thought,
higher education consultant Daniel Guhr has warned....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/R45zL
Press Release: Student Volunteer Army’s mission to Japan

Scoop, New Zealand
April 21 2011
This weekend the leader of the Student Volunteer Army (SVA) and a colleague will head to Japan to set
up a Japanese version of the Student Volunteer Army....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/AVbLn
International Recognition Of Student Volunteer Army Demonstrates Power Of Students

Voxy, New Zealand
April 21 2011
Student leaders are congratulating and commending the Student Volunteer Army on its continuing efforts
in Canterbury, and for the work the Army's coordinators will do overseas....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/QLvBy
Broadsides: Student loans (Jacinda Ardern, Nikki Kaye)

New Zealand Herald
April 22 2011
We asked Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye: Is the current student loan system
working?
It's not often that a Minister finds themselves escaping an angry crowd through a window, literally. But
that's exactly what happened one fine day in 1994. The then National Party Minister of Education was
visiting Canterbury University when....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/qrubV
Sydney's skint but smart set: how students survive below the poverty line
April 21 2011
Courtney Dawson ... set up a blog called Better Homes and Ghettos with tips for her peers.
Just $36 a day, including rent assistance.
That's the maximum government income support for full-time students aged 16 to 24....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/QCi7K
Wollongong imports British vice-chancellor

April 21 2011
THE University of Wollongong will import a new vice-chancellor from England.
Paul Wellings, who has been vice-chancellor of Lancaster University since 2002, will take up the new
appointment at the beginning of next year....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/OMuiK
Ian Chubb will be a chief scientist hard to ignore

ABC.net.au
April 20 2011
The appointment of former ANU vice-chancellor Ian Chubb as the new Chief Scientist is – to use the
words of Sir Humphrey Appleby – a courageous choice by the Gillard Government....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/8w7Uv
Unis reject state role in TEQSA

The Australian
April 20 2011
IN the face of state opposition to the commonwealth's takeover of university regulation, a Senate
committee has been told that federalism had failed in tertiary education and that promoting the role of
the states was akin to "flogging a dead parrot"....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/sNeR9
Vice-chancellors cool on research paper

The Australian
April 20 2011
A FEDERAL government research plan 18 months in the making, delivered amid budget austerity and
with no new funding attached, has received responses ranging from muted endorsement to outright
disappointment....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/FThAZ
Research won't get funding boost

The Australian
April 19 2011
ANY hopes of a federal funding boost for the research sector are not realised in a major policy
document to be released today.
Initiatives to be announced at the research workforce strategy launch by Innovation, Industry, Science
and Research Minister Kim Carr include $200,000 in new money to cover three research education....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/DGdso
Student loan changes 'pick on the elderly'

TVNZ
April 18 2011
The government is being accused of "picking on the elderly" as it considers changes to the student loan
system.
Measures in next month's Budget include tightening up the current allowance for over-55s. That will
allow them to get a student loan to cover course costs....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/Igwkn
Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education

Academic Impressions
http://goo.gl/C6q3w
The New York Times
April 10 2011
Indigenous Australians have long been under-represented in their country’s universities, but now some
institutions are creating leadership posts to help increase the number of indigenous students and
academics....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/eYOQQ
Endeavour Awards provide life changing opportunities

April 15 2011
Winners of this year’s Endeavour Awards will have access to life and career changing opportunities in
countries around the world.
The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today encouraged Australian students and
professionals to apply for a 2012 Endeavour Award....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/GXSp8
Uni report adds to scrutiny on Behrendt

The Australian
April 18 2011
LARISSA Behrendt faces fresh scrutiny of her suitability to head the Gillard government's review of
Aboriginal higher education in the wake of a highly critical assessment of indigenous education at the
University of Technology Sydney, where she holds a senior role....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/l3j4u
Q+A's Paul Holmes Interviews Tertiary Minister, Steven Joyce

Voxy.co.nz
April 17 2011
Steven Joyce
Points of interest:
- Government to crack down on overseas graduates slow to repay student loans and loans to older
students, saying "several hundred million" over 4-5 years
- Three year loan repayment holiday for those overseas to be cut; possibly to one year and only upon
application
- Debt collectors being sent to graduates in Australia and soon in Britain
- Government threatens to recall entire loan, take graduates to court if repayments fall behind
- Graduates who stay in New Zealand pay back loans 3-4 times faster than those offshore: 'Why
should those in NZ subsidise OEs?'
- No loans for course or living costs for those over-55
- Student loans to trainee pilots to be restricted
- Government aims to get more than 60c back in every dollar, up from 57c now
Full article:
http://goo.gl/53Zg3
Closing the gap in Indigenous higher education

April 14 2011
Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans and the Minister for Innovation, Senator Kim Carr,
today announced a review into Indigenous higher education access, to ensure Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islanders share equally in the life and career opportunities that a quality higher education
system....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/s0gR3
Australian Scholarships Foundation
http://www.scholarships.org.au/scholarships/all-scholarships
National Survey of Young Australians

Pro Bono News
April 08 2011
Mission Australia’s annual Youth Survey – the largest survey of its kind in Australia – is on again.
Undertaken each year since 2002, the survey asks young Australians aged 11 to 24 about what they
value, where to turn for advice and support, how they are involved with their communities and their
attitudes and feelings towards....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/MfoA7
Building Partnerships between Government & Not-For-Profits Conference

Third Sector Magazine
April 12 2011
The Building Partnerships between Government & Not-For-Profits Conference will be held between 19-
20 May 2011 at the Canberra National Convention Centre....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/BIwwK
Doctor dream at a nightmare $230,000

The Age
April 17 2011
Medical student Brigid Wolf will have a large debt to pay when she graduates. Photo: Craig Sillitoe
BRIGID Wolf turned 21 yesterday. Living a lifelong dream to become a doctor, this bubbly medical
student should have every reason to celebrate.
But unlike most people her age, she has no room to relax. Her thoughts are haunted by the $230,000
debt she will face when she graduates. Half will be paid to the federal government through a deferred
loan....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/EN12D
A higher degree of opportunity coming soon

The Australian
April 16 2011
WHEN Julia Gillard rose to her feet for the first time in federal parliament in 1998, she talked of a
compact with this and future generations that made equal opportunity for education and skills....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/rN4Z6
Students facing tougher entry to teaching degrees

The Age
April 16 2011
Students who want to study teaching at university will have to score in the top 30 per cent of the
population in literacy and numeracy, in a bid to improve the quality of teachers in the classroom.
The tougher university entry requirements, to be introduced from 2013, were announced yesterday....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/F11au
Students key agents of change in inner city apartment market

New Zealand Herald
April 17 2011
Auckland's central business district has been transformed in the past two decades - and Chinese students
such as Melody Guo have been one of the key change agents.
Ms Guo, 20, a fourth-year law and arts student at Auckland University who came to Howick with her
parents 10 years ago, flats with Kiwi students Della Halsall and Kelly Remnant, both 18, in a downtown
student....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/YE0gL
Research Conference 2011: Indigenous Education: Pathways to success

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Research Conference 2011 will focus on what we can learn from research about creating and sustaining
positive educational outcomes for Indigenous students. Presenters will highlight the conditions, contexts,
curriculum, pedagogy and practices that establish pathways to success for Indigenous students....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ZMqlM
Sydney ditches other unis to snare best medical students

April 14 2011
THE University of Sydney has broken from a national consortium for managing medical school
applications in a move other members say will inflate costs for would-be doctors and disadvantage
those from poorer families....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/1TSRK
Universities' value to economy 'overlooked and underrated'

The Australian
April 15 2011
MELBOURNE'S seven universities are the city's biggest employers and the largest contributors to state
economic development over the past 25 years. Melbourne University vice-chancellor Glyn Davis said
yesterday higher education's contribution to economic prosperity was rarely discussed, even....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/w5fAv
TEQSA statute vulnerable to High Court challenge

The Australian
April 13 2011
THE new tertiary regulator may be vulnerable to a High Court challenge by an aggrieved university,
constitutional lawyer George Williams warns.
Professor Williams said it was unclear whether or not the highest court would classify universities as
trading corporations....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/uv5cc
Information overload or creative knowledge?
The Australian
April 13 2011
MOST articles that appear on these pages address problems. Hearing and dealing with problems all
the time, we risk losing perspective of our unprecedented opportunities and fail to see the rationale for
a more optimistic perspective for the higher education sector....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/3nSXu
Flight from private providers has big cost

The Australian
April 13 2011
TAXPAYERS could face a $2.5 billion bill if students desert private providers for places in the expanded
public university system, the peak body for private education has warned.
Claire Field, chief executive of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training, said....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/GyuHy
Soft marking net may be cast wider

The Australian
April 13 2011
GIGI Foster, the academic whose research revealed evidence of soft marking of international students,
is having her ongoing work frustrated by universities not providing data in the wake of publicity over
her findings....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/cjmRB
TAFE diplomas losing their vocation

The Australian
April 13 2011
DIPLOMAS from the vocational education and training sector are rapidly losing their currency in a
labour market looking for ever higher qualifications.
Significantly, it risks a narrowing of the VET sector's appeal, according to a leading expert....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/JabEa
Brave decisions required

The Australian
April 13 2011
THE panel undertaking the review of higher education base funding is embarked on a seemingly heroic
task.
The technical issues are mindbendingly complex for most of us, the political issues are tricky, to say the
least, and the circumstances are not particularly promising....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/FWhWN
Unis looking to admit all schools' top pupils

The Australian
April 12 2011
THE top-performing students in all schools -- irrespective of their marks -- would be admitted to
university under a proposal to even the playing field with students at rich private schools.
A report commissioned by the Group of Eight sandstone universities on admission strategies said the US
practice of admitting a proportion of the top-performing students in the graduating class of....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/4ta5I
Are we too clever for our own good?

The Age, Australia
April 12 2011
MUCH has changed since Jane Farago began her career 20 years ago. Before rising to the higher
echelons at various publishing houses, she served an apprenticeship as a publisher's assistant at Oxford
University Press....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/xHw7G
Australia pioneers portal for sustainability on campus

The Australian
April 11 2011
A PIONEERING web guide to sustainability in higher education launches today.
Sustainability.edu.au is believed to be the first searchable website showing higher education courses,
teaching tips and other resources....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/VoV5N
The New York Times
April 10 2011
Indigenous Australians have long been under-represented in their country’s universities, but now some
institutions are creating leadership posts to help increase the number of indigenous students and
academics....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ziFZZ
South Australia plans SARDI and Adelaide University merger

The Australian
April 11 2011
THE Rann government is planning to merge its peak agricultural research body with Adelaide University
in a push to lift its standings in the prestigious Group of Eight....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/3JWTa
The trouble with homes away from home

The Age, Australia
April 07 2011
IT IS a downside of Melbourne's property boom that you don't hear much about - 10, 15 maybe 20
international students living in one home because rental accommodation is so scarce. ''Six students
sharing one apartment is quite normal,'' says Wesa Chau, ''and it's going to get worse.''
Full article:
http://goo.gl/5sNQ9
Bernard Salt to deliver inaugural Chancellor's Lecture

Victoria University News
April 07 2011
The inaugural Chancellor’s Lecture, the first in a new biannual lecture series hosted by Victoria
University, will take place on Tuesday 19 April with a presentation on research conducted by KPMG
demographer Bernard Salt. His topic is: “Middle Class on the Move: How Cultural Change is Shaping
Melbourne’s West”.
Full article:
http://goo.gl/xGCpw
Unis call for big boost in funding

The Age, Australia
April 07 2011
AUSTRALIA'S leading research universities call on the federal government to increase funding to
universities by billions of dollars a year.
AUSTRALIA'S leading research universities are calling on the federal government to increase funding to
universities by billions of dollars a year to stop quality and standards plummenting as the number of
students grows....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/HmgFZ
Chifley Young Leaders Awards announced

Media release: The Hon Peter Garrett MP
April 06 2011
The Minister for Youth, Peter Garrett, and Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, today announced the winners
of the inaugural Chifley Young Leader Award as part of National Youth Week.
Mr Garrett said the award acknowledges the importance of young people’s positive contribution to the
local community....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/IsZmC
Otago Polytechnic eyes term changes

Otago Daily Times
April 06 2011
Otago Polytechnic is about to consult staff and students on a plan to replace the traditional two-
semester tertiary study year with three trimesters.
Rather than the 32-week academic year running from about mid-February to the end of October, the....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/jAWqD
Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector

Steven Joyce
April 06 2011
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says a new Crown Agency to improve the way the government
supports and encourages international education will also help minimise the impact of the Christchurch
earthquake on the sector....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/umP7q
Base funding review in sights

The Australian
April 06 2011
STUDENTS and academics are urging the review of base funding to link any increases in teaching
money to quality improvements such as reduced student to staff ratios and lower rates of casualisation.
The National Union of Students has warned that in the uncapped system there is a danger universities
could "turn to increasing their market share through advertising and promotion at....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/nCCnA
Paper 'blames students' over visa influx

The Australian
April 06 2011
FORMER NSW Olympics minister Michael Knight has glossed over the role that official policy played in
the distortion of skilled migration by overseas students.
Mr Knight, who is carrying out an independent review of the student visa program, puts the blame....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/bIbsS
Australian Technology Network calls for paid interns
The Australian
April 06 2011
IN the wake of the Business Council of Australia's call last week for greater engagement with
universities, the group of technology universities has said it will resuscitate a proposal for a paid student
internship program.
Under the proposal, which has previously failed to gain traction from the business community....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/QhB01
ERA prompts focus on teaching

The Australian
April 06 2011
NEARLY one third of Central Queensland University's academic staff have accepted non-research
teaching positions in just a five-week period.
CQU vice-chancellor Scott Bowman said the offer of teaching scholar positions was put to all staff in the
wash-up of the Excellence in Research for Australia....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/XEIOr
UWA hits paydirt with mining boom

The Australian
April 06 2011
PAUL Johnson isn't banking on striking iron ore or oil beneath the rolling campus lawns of the University
of Western Australia.
But the vice-chancellor elect says Western Australia's mineral boom can provide the foundation for
establishing UWA as a key innovation hub to drive the....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/EzrJe
Business ideas have great value

The Australian (Letters)
April 06 2011
THE recent Business Council of Australia report on higher education presented some valuable proposals
to lift Australia's productivity through university education. It should receive broad support from the
sector.
First, the BCA proposes performance pay to reward institutions achieving excellent outcomes, which it
wants linked to benchmarking of teaching performance. The previous federal Learning and Teaching....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/j9wfm
Razor gang eyed university indexation

The Australian
April 05 2011
THE Department of Finance is believed to have pushed for a freeze on promised university indexation in
the upcoming federal budget, creating ongoing nervousness in the sector ahead of a tough budget.
But sector insiders say tertiary education minister Chris Evans may have successfully fought off the....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/lKhgc
Melbourne urges fee umpire to take heat out of debate

The Australian
April 04 2011
The University of Melbourne is pushing for the creation of an independent pricing regulator to de-
politicise the university funding debate and ensure student tuition fees are high enough to guarantee
high standards of education....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/on38g
Glyn Davis calls for uni funding shake-up

The Age
April 04 2011
THE power to allocate university funding should rest with an independent regulator with institutions given
the choice to charge up to 30 per cent more than base rates, the University of Melbourne has told a
federal government review of higher education funding....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/4i9Ig
National Youth Week kicks off across Australia

Media release: The Hon Peter Garrett MP
April 01 2011
Australia’s largest celebration of young people – National Youth Week – begins today, with hundreds
of thousands of young Australians taking part in events around the country to showcase their talents and
have their say....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ZM9fv
No place for People and Place

University World News
April 03 2011
The final edition of one of Australia's most oft-quoted academic journals has just been published. The
controversial founder of People and Place, Dr Bob Birrell, used his final editorial to savage the federal
government's Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, which he believes has led to the journal's
demise and is affecting academics in the humanities and social....
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Companies must support and guide education sector

The Australian
April 02 2011
AUSTRALIA'S higher education sector makes a vital contribution to maintaining a strong and productive
economy.
But this sector can make an even greater contribution to productivity and economic growth into the
future. It can do this through a combination of increased participation, including participation by students
from disadvantaged backgrounds, together with high quality and relevant teaching provided to....
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Too early to reconsider student cap

Stuff.co.nz
April 02 2011
The effect the Christchurch earthquake will have on enrolments at Massey University next year remains
uncertain.
In the aftermath of the February quake, Massey University was among seven tertiary institutes
accepting....
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Roy: The Moral Issue Of Interest-Free Student Loans

Voxy.co.nz
April 01 2011
The most blatant election bribe I've seen during my political career was Labour's 2005 promise to take
interest off Student Loans. I remember door knocking in Epsom and having the discussion with many
students then. Almost all were caught in the dilemma of doing what was best for....
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La Trobe's Johnson goes west

The Australian
April 01 2011
The University of Western Australia has poached La Trobe University's Paul Johnson to succeed Alan
Robson as its new vice chancellor from 2012.
A former deputy director of the London School of Economics, Professor Johnson was appointed vice
chancellor of La Trobe in....
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New Zealand & Australian Higher Education news: April 2011

 Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

 Are we too clever for our own good?

Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

Students want a career in academe

Generalist degrees broaden young minds

TAFE to follow American community college learning path

Shift to broader ranking system

New standards agency loosens grip of states

Record number of Australian students at university

Resignations at top of OUSA

JCU: just watch as we grow

Ballarat university enrolments skyrocket

ANU students crammed in

Some of the rooms appear no bigger than ACT jail cells.

Interview with Steven Joyce - transcript

PAUL Thank you for coming on.

STEVEN JOYCE - Tertiary Education Minister

PAUL Is National committed to interest-free student loans?

New breed of entrepreneurs turn profits to social ends

Student ranks swell by 50,000

Education and aspiration keys to membership of an open society

Growth in uni places good for economy, says Labor

Uni student numbers on the rise

Funding needs a long-term solution: Glyn Davis

Private providers lift their load

Forecast for fewer qualified students

Press Release: Student Volunteer Army’s mission to Japan

International Recognition Of Student Volunteer Army Demonstrates Power Of Students

Broadsides: Student loans (Jacinda Ardern, Nikki Kaye)

Wollongong imports British vice-chancellor

THE University of Wollongong will import a new vice-chancellor from England.

Ian Chubb will be a chief scientist hard to ignore

Unis reject state role in TEQSA

Vice-chancellors cool on research paper

Research won't get funding boost

Student loan changes 'pick on the elderly'

Social media: Uncovering opportunities for higher education

Endeavour Awards provide life changing opportunities

Uni report adds to scrutiny on Behrendt

Q+A's Paul Holmes Interviews Tertiary Minister, Steven Joyce

Closing the gap in Indigenous higher education

Australian Scholarships Foundation

National Survey of Young Australians

Building Partnerships between Government & Not-For-Profits Conference

Doctor dream at a nightmare $230,000

A higher degree of opportunity coming soon

Students facing tougher entry to teaching degrees

Students key agents of change in inner city apartment market

Research Conference 2011: Indigenous Education: Pathways to success

Sydney ditches other unis to snare best medical students

Universities' value to economy 'overlooked and underrated'

TEQSA statute vulnerable to High Court challenge

Information overload or creative knowledge?

Flight from private providers has big cost

Soft marking net may be cast wider

TAFE diplomas losing their vocation

Brave decisions required

Unis looking to admit all schools' top pupils

Are we too clever for our own good?

Australia pioneers portal for sustainability on campus

A PIONEERING web guide to sustainability in higher education launches today.

South Australia plans SARDI and Adelaide University merger

Macquarie University facing looming China crisis

Are we too clever for our own good?

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