Category: Media Releases and Statements
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 welcomes Labor policy direction that enquires into all aspects of a post-secondary education
The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, with seven of its eight members ranked in the world’s top 100 universities, is pleased that Labor has supported the push of the Go8 and others to have a holistic inquiry into how best Government can assist deliver and…
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Go8 Media Release: Research grants showcase the Go8
Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants, which indicate strong relationships with the nation’s industry and excellence in delivering research with real impact, are much sought after and received with pride. “The Group of Eight (Go8) Australia’s leading research-intensive universities is therefore proud it is the recipient of 75.6 per cent…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 Welcomes New Chair, Professor Ian Jacobs
Professor Ian Jacobs, President and Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, has been appointed as the Group of Eight’s (Go8) new Chair and will take up the role on 1st February 2018. Professor Jacobs has been a strong advocate of the power of higher education to change lives – through education, employment, thought…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY Review of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017 Go8 Opening Statement – Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive Thank you for the opportunity to put the Go8’s position on the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill before you. As Go8 Chief Executive, my Board has…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 Media Release: Go8 Welcomes Australia’s 2030 Innovation Strategy
The Group of Eight (Go8) welcomes the release of the Innovation and Science Australia innovation plan Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation as a long overdue big picture approach to the role of innovation in securing Australia’s future. Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive of the Go8, says that whilst the companion piece…
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Go8 Two-way Mobility of PhD Students Between India and Australia 2017
On 22 January, 2018, the Go8 launched its report into strategies for increasing two-way PhD mobility between Australia and India while CE of Go8, Vicki Thomson, and Chair Professor Peter Høj were in Delhi for the Australia India Leadership Dialogue. The report was launched by Mr Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor of…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 disheartened and dismayed by Government’s treatment of Australia’s young people
The Group of Eight (Go8) comprising Australia’s leading research-intensive universities – with seven of its eight members ranked in the world’s top 100 universities – says it makes no sense for the Turnbull Government to have so comprehensively abandoned the nation’s young people at a time when more than ever…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 and AAMRI congratulate Minister Hunt and AMRAB on Medical Research Future Fund Principles
As the largest providers of health and medical research in Australia, the Group of Eight (Go8) and the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI) welcome the release of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Principles and congratulates the Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, and the Australian…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 universities amongst the most trusted in the world for employable graduates
Australia’s Group of Eight (Go8) universities are amongst the most trusted in the world for producing employable graduates according to the Times Higher Education (THE) Global University Employability Ranking released today, with five Go8 institutions in the top 100. Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive of the Go8, says that the THE…
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Go8 Media Release: Group of Eight funding stance supported by Productivity Commission Report – casting strong doubt on the Government’s on-going negative agenda
The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s leading research intensive universities, has had its strong stance against the Government’s proposed funding cuts to the sector reinforced by the Productivity Commission’s bold report. “The Productivity Commission rightly questions how we do our job, how we use our funding and our…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 calls on “pragmatic” Government to move quickly on Higher Education enquiry
The Group of Eight (Go8), which comprises Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, strongly supports the Nick Xenophon Team’s call for a comprehensive ‘Gonski-style’ review of post-secondary education and is disappointed the Government has not immediately embraced such a review for the benefit of all tertiary students and the future of the…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 congratulates the Nick Xenophon Team on supporting students and the future of university education in Australia
The Group of Eight (Go8), Australia’s leading research intensive universities, says NXT has placed Australian students high in the list of priorities for delivering Australia a strong economic future. “NXT withstanding unrelenting pressure from the Government to take a strong and ethical stand against the worst elements of the Government’s…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 takes lead in support and delivery of rural, regional and remote education, equity and research
The Group of Eight (Go8), Australia’s leading research intensive universities, say the government’s proposed changes to university and student funding will put at risk key programs which target regional and rural education and research. In its submission to the Federal Government’s ‘Independent Review into Rural, Regional and Remote Education’ the…
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Go8 Media Release: Government Senate tactics hitting a new low: they indicate total disregard for Australia’s university students, export earnings and an abandonment of principles of good Government
The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research intensive universities with more than 360,000 students condemns the Turnbull Government’s desperate win-at-all-costs Senate tactics. “After weeks of misleading and disingenuous accusations against the university sector, Education Minister Simon Birmingham is showing total disregard and disrespect for higher education and…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 warns excellence in rankings is despite Government lack of support
Group of Eight (Go8) Chief Executive Vicki Thomson warns that the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings that has all Go8 members ranked in the world’s top 150 universities, has been achieved in spite of increasing financial duress. “The fact that THE Editorial Director of Global Rankings Phil Baty…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 returns to India in on-going commitment to India’s quality students and joint research
Australia’s group of leading research intensive universities, the Group of Eight (Go8), is back in India to hold its second 2017 PhD mobility /research workshop, comprising universities, industry and Government, as it continues to strengthen the Go8 commitment to hosting quality Indian PhD students, and increasing joint research projects. The…
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Go8 Media Release: Focusing on the continuing perplexing spin from Government on higher education reform
Group of Eight (Go8) Chief Executive Vicki Thomson says the Go8 is “disappointed but not surprised” at Education Minister Senator Simon Birmingham’s cynical use of figures and reports to attempt to hoodwink the Senate into supporting the Government’s Budget higher education funding cuts. “That the Government continues to operate in…
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Go8 Media Release: Federal Government funding cuts to higher education put hundreds of SA jobs at risk while students are forced to pay more for less.
The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s eight leading research-intensive universities, including the University of Adelaide, wants South Australians to recognise the significant impact to jobs and students that will occur in SA if the Federal Government’s higher education cuts pass the Senate. “It is not widely known that…
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Go8 Media Release: Baffling move will leave students ‘all dressed up with nowhere to go’
“The Federal Government is making a baffling move by planning to cut university funding at the same time as it enhances investments in schools,” Group of Eight (Go8) Chair, Professor Peter Høj said today. At the National Press Club, Professor Høj said last week’s passage through Parliament of Gonski 2.0…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 says confused Government legislation + tricky figures = need for Senate to reject higher education Budget cuts
The Group of Eight (Go8) Board is united in its condemnation of the tricky Budget cuts that mean students pay more for less and leave universities with less capacity to assist those who most need it. “The sector’s analysis of the figures which were represented so as to hide that…
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Go8 Media Release: Sector leading attainment for Go8 in winning 80 per cent of Australian Research Council (ARC) announcements
The Group of Eight (Go8), which comprises Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, says today’s welcome announcement of the Go8 winning $134 million for ARC research, most definitely rewards its research excellence and “also shines the spotlight on research vital to our community’s wellbeing,” says Vicki Thomson Chief Executive of the Go8.…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 welcomes linkage grants success but cautions such research capacity is at risk
The Group of Eight (Go8), which is comprised of Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, has welcomed the decision to invest nearly $15 million or about two-thirds of the funding pool across 39 of 61 Australian Research Council (ARC) linkage grants announced today, in addition to very significant funding from our outstanding…
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Go8 Media Release: Group of Eight in landmark first for Australia – welcomes $200 million vote of confidence in its research from the UK’s IP Group
Australia’s Group of Eight Universities (Go8) – which is comprised of the nation’s eight leading researchintensive universities – has entered into a landmark agreement with the UK based IP Group PLC which will see at least $200 million invested in finding and developing companies involved in disruptive innovation. The commercialisation…
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Go8 Media Release: Group of Eight welcomes Professor Peter Rathjen to the team
The University of Adelaide is to be congratulated on its choice of Professor Peter Rathjen as its next Vice Chancellor. “The Group of Eight (Go8) – Australia’s group of leading research-intensive universities, with six of its members ranked in the world’s top 100 – is delighted to welcome such an…