Category: In the Media
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In the media: Scientists warn lack of funding will ruin research facilities
Michael Edwards reported this story on Thursday, March 5, 2015 666 ABC Canberra, Canberra (Early AM) MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: A group of leading scientists has written to the Prime Minister warning that Australia’s research facilities are on the verge of shutting down due to uncertainty over funding. Commonwealth Government money needed…
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In the media: Higher education reforms to help fund research must pass Senate
The Australian March 04, 2015 By Ian Young WITHIN the next few weeks the Senate will consider the government’s revised higher education legislation, which has the support of most vice-chancellors. We see no other way to ensure our universities remain some of the best in the world, providing outstanding education…
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In the media: Eight’s only option
Campus Morning Mail, 2 March 2015 By Stephen Matchett The Group of Eight’s submission to the Opposition initiated Senate committee inquiry into the Pyne Package MkII is concise but brevity does not compromise clarity. The Eight’s irritation with all who ignore, obfuscate or don’t understand what it sees as the…
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In the media: Tax beats caps in uni fees market
The Australian, 19 February 2015 By Andrew Trounson LEVYING a tax on university fees is a better way to limit the risk of excessive price increases in a deregulated market compared with capping prices or loans, according to sector expert David Phillips. Education Minister Christopher Pyne is understood to be…
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In the media: Why I support the deregulation of higher education
The Conversation, 28 January 2015 By Glyn Davis Over recent weeks, some staff have written to vice-chancellors, urging them to reject the university deregulation measures advocated by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. Public universities, they argue, should not be left to the “vagaries of the market”. I disagree and would like to…
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In the media: Free education never existed
The Australian, 29 January 2015 By Vicki Thomson FREE higher education is elitist and it was never “free”. It is past time that was understood. The supposed wonders of that period of “free” education in our universities from 1974 to 1989 keep popping up to pollute the debate on fee…
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In the media: No to Nick
Campus Morning Mail, 22 January 2015 by Stephen Matchett Senator Nick Xenophon’s proposal for yet another review of higher education turned out to be a circuit breaker, sort of. While nobody much liked it, his call for another committee started people talking about ways to break the Senate stalemate over the deregulation…
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In the media: Christopher Pyne’s offer to reverse university cuts fails to win support for deregulation
The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Jan 2015 by Matthew Knott Key Senate crossbenchers say they remain opposed to the deregulation of university fees even if the Abbott government reduces, or scraps entirely, a planned 20 per cent cut to university funding. Independent senator Nick Xenophon said the government’s higher…
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In the media: Universities ramp up offers to lowest tier
The Australian, 19 January 2015 by Julie Hare TWO out of every five students with a tertiary admission rank of 50 or lower who applied for university last year were offered a place, a figure that has quadrupled since 2009, when the figure was one in 10. The trend…
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In the media: Go8’s policy platform
Campus Morning Mail, 16 January 2015 by Stephen Matchett Just days in the job executive director of the Group of Eight, Vicki Thomson begins as she means to go on, setting out a comms strategy designed to put the Eight at the centre of policy debate. “Universities should introduce and…
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In the media: Expect change as reformer Vicki Thomson lands at Go8
The Australian, 14 January 2015 By Julie Hare WHEN Vicki Thomson arrived at the Group of Eight’s Canberra HQ on Monday morning, she already had her first three weeks mapped out. First stop was a staff meeting to say hello and spell out some basic expectations. The new executive director…