Category: Media Releases and Statements

The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, with seven of its members in the world’s top 100 universities, is today hosting some 130 of the nation’s most integral Defence, Defence Industry and Security personnel. “The one-day closed meeting includes some of the Go8’s most senior researchers…

The Group of Eight (Go8) – which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities – has welcomed a commitment by the Federal Opposition to invest in science and research should they win the forthcoming election. Go8 Chief Executive Vicki Thomson says Labor Leader Bill Shorten’s budget in reply speech emphasised the critical…

The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, has warned that the Government’s ‘back in black’ budget will further impede the national research effort of Australia’s universities and undermine economic growth. Go8 Chief Executive, Vicki Thomson said the budget detail reveals cuts to the Australian Research Council…

The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, say tonight’s Federal Budget is a missed opportunity for Australia’s university sector, their researchers and – most importantly – the nation’s economy. “Whilst we applaud the ongoing funding commitment to a 10-year, $5 billion investment plan for the Medical…

Research undertaken in the nation’s universities not only delivers in terms of quality but also delivers in terms of real-world impact on the everyday lives of Australians, the global community and business and industry – as verified by the Federal Government’s first assessment of research impact and engagement. The Impact…

The fourth ‘Excellence in Research for Australia’ (ERA) results – a Government funded assessment of Australia’s research quality – has again highlighted the research depth and capability of Australia’s university sector and confirmed the role of the Group of Eight (Go8) as Australia’s leading research-intensive universities. The Go8, which spends…

The Group of Eight (Go8), as Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, with seven of its members in the world’s top 100 universities, welcomes the announcement that Australia has today signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) with Indonesia. In 2016, the Go8 recommended to DFAT that the agreement include provisions allowing…

The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, with seven of its members in the world’s top 100 universities, will today sign a further series of MOUs with the Embassy of France and French companies, Naval Group and Thales. “France is a strategic partner of Australia and…

The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities is part of a rallying call, with TAFE Directors Australia (TDA), to an incoming Government to be strategic in how it approaches a seamless post-secondary education sector. Writing in today’s Fairfax Press,  Go8 CE, Vicki Thomson and TDA CE,…

Australia’s leading universities, the Group of Eight (Go8), has welcomed a commitment from the Federal Opposition to ensure high-achieving Australians are encouraged to consider teaching as a career. Go8 Chief Executive, Vicki Thomson, said “teaching as a profession is a national priority. We must do all we can to ensure…

The Group of Eight Universities (Go8) which represent Australia’s leading research-intensive universities is pleased that the Review into the Defence Trade Controls Act conducted by Dr Vivienne Thom AM has understood the damage that could have been inflicted and the impossibility of complying with the Defence Department’s demands for increased…

In a potent affirmation of education and individual effort as the gateway to success – regardless of gender, socio-economic status or family impediments – the UK high school student who left school before sitting A levels, Professor Dawn Freshwater, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Western Australia, has become…

The Group of Eight (Go8), comprising Australia’s research-intensive universities, welcomes the Australian Government’s continued commitment to national research infrastructure with Education Minister Dan Tehan’s confirmation of funding of $10 million for six projects. “The Go8 universities spend in excess of $6billion annually on research and it is pleasing to see…

The Group of Eight (Go8) – which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities – says it is an unconscionable attack when Government announces cuts of $328.4 million to Australian research; the nation’s lifeblood. Go8 Chief Executive Vicki Thomson said that the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) cuts are “attacking, counterproductive,…