The Vice Chancellors of Australia’s eight leading Universities have, for the first time ever, co-signed paid advertising as a plea to the Senate. Appearing in News Ltd and Fairfax publications today, Wednesday 11 March, the advertising describes as “dumb” the potential decision to cut vital research funding for the ‘clever country’. The funding to the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) will be cut if the Senate does not pass the Higher Education fee deregulation legislative package that is currently before it. “Australia’s eight leading Universities formed the...
