Keynote speech: Ensuring Transparent ATAR and Alternative Entry Admissions Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive, Group of Eight Australia Good morning. I am very pleased to be here and thank you for inviting me to speak. I know that the 101 of delivering a speech suggests you must start with a joke, especially if it’s a morning speech. Just to wake everyone up. Sorry, but I totally lucked out on finding one that could accompany this subject matter. Maybe there isn’t much to laugh about. Or, alternatively, note to self: try harder next time! The title of the conference “Re-defining University...
Thank you for inviting me to join you. The title of my presentation today is billed as examining the impact of the Turnbull government’s innovation agenda on higher education and employability – with a sub theme of how can the Higher Education sector play in this new space …. This of course is not new space for universities and its always worth knowing your history in order to have an understanding of where we are headed. So a little history ….The first university in Europe was the University of Bologna (1088) which began as a law school teaching Roman Law – which was in demand across Europe...
