Category: News
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Media release: Go8 appreciates Standards Australia driving the nation’s AI future forward with the release of a sound AI Standards Roadmap
The Group of Eight (Go8) represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities and plays an integral and leading role in Australia’s essential AI research and planning. Go8 Chief Executive Vicki Thomson says that “from our position leading a nation’s AI research and global collaborations, the Go8 has been especially keen to see…
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Go8 Statement: Go8 supports medical decisions behind Government’s continuing travel ban
The Group of Eight (Go8), Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, supports and understands the medical advice behind the Government’s decision today to yet again continue its travel ban. The Government is clearly responding to increased numbers of cases in Australia and internationally and the Go8 will always support decisions that put…
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Go8 statement on continuation of coronavirus travel bans
The Group of Eight (Go8), Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, supports and understands the medical advice behind the Government’s decision today to continue its travel ban. The Go8 has always held the strong position that it is not its place to request any lifting or partial lifting of this ban, and…
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In the media: Go8 CE Vicki Thomson speaks to ABC’s Fran Kelly on the impact of the Coronavirus
February 25, 2020 Listen here:
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Go8 Submission: Go8 response to Senior Secondary Pathways discussion paper
Dear Professor Shergold I am writing on behalf of the Group of Eight (Go8) with a high-level response to the COAG Education Council Discussion Paper on the Review Senior Secondary Pathways into Work, Further Education and Training that was issuedin September 2019. Please note that Go8 member universities may each…
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Go8 Submission: Go8 response to the ANZSRC Review Consultation Draft
The Group of Eight (Go8) comprising the eight research intensive universities in Australia conducts two thirds of all university research and expends $6.4 billion on research each year. Over 99 per cent of Go8 research is world class or above, measured by the Australian Research Council’s Excellence in Research for…
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In the media: Travel ban inflicts ‘very acute’ impact on ‘university sector’
Go8 Chief Executive Vicki Thomson on Sky News, 19 February 2020 – watch at Sky News
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Go8 Submission on Temporary Migration
27 February 2020Select Committee on Temporary MigrationDepartment of the SenatePO Box 6100Canberra ACT 2600E: temporarymigration.sen@aph.gov.au The Group of Eight (Go8) thanks the Select Committee for the opportunity to comment on the inquiry into Temporary Migration in Australia. Please note that this submission represents the views of the Go8 network, and…
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Go8 statement on continuation of coronavirus travel bans
The Group of Eight (Go8) represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities with seven of its eight members ranked in the world’s top 100 universities. It also enrols 105,833 quality international students from China – one in three of the Chinese students who choose to study on-shore in Australia. The Go8 understands…
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In the media: Decision expected on China travel ban as virus spread slows
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Coronavirus emergency delivers a personal hit to campus community
Vicki Thomson – The Australian – 12 February 2020 As the global coronavirus emergency continues, there should be no reticence to state bluntly that it is delivering a sudden and hard solar plexus blow to international education — Australia’s third largest export sector. Especially after the economic hit of the…
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In the Media: Opportunity knocks?
As China’s influence grows, UK scholars question how best to collaborate. A post-Brexit transition may offer change to more than our EU relationship February 6, 2020 By John Gill – Times Higher Education After years of wall-to-wall Brexit coverage, it was a little strange that in the week that Britain formally…
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Go8 response to Government travel restrictions
The Group of Eight (Go8) which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, and with seven of its members in the world’s top 100 universities, is home to 63 per cent of the Chinese university students who we are pleased have chosen to study in Australia. The Go8 must follow all directions…
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University researchers were there in the bushfire crisis, says Group of Eight chief
Vicki Thomson – The Australian – 29/01/2020 – read at The Australian It has been a national disaster like no summer before it. Its wake of destruction — mental, physical and economic, and not only for the short term — remains too difficult to comprehend. It’s not a time when…
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Go8 joins Paris talks to push for greater global open access to research data
A senior delegation of Group of Eight (Go8) international policy and research experts has joined representatives of nine of the world’s leading research university networks, including the Association of American Universities (AAU), the UK’s Russell Group, Canada’s U15, Germany’s U15, Japan’s RU11, and the League of European research Universities (LERU),…
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Go8 Publication: Facts of Distinction 2020
Go8 Facts of Distinction (PDF)
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Leading universities offer ‘best minds and expertise’ to assist bushfire victims
Nick O’Malley – The Sydney Morning Herald – January 7, 2020 The nation’s leading universities are mobilising to provide immediate support to students, families, communities and businesses hit by the bushfire crisis after discussions between the Group of Eight major universities and federal Education Minister Dan Tehan. In the short…
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Go8 welcomes Australia’s ratification of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru
The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, recognises the value to Australia from today’s ratification of FTAs with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru. “The Government and the Parliament have worked assiduously to ensure this occurred, and the Go8 congratulates them for their efforts,” says Go8 Chief…
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Go8-ACOSS Joint Communique: Enabling Education Access for All: Supporting Australian Students
The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s leading research universities, and the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), the peak body for the community services sector, today – 2 December 2019 – committed to a continuing joint student equity advocacy program aimed at a 2020 Federal Budget outcome. At…
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Universities, students and community sector meet to address student poverty
A joint roundtable of academics, students and the community sector will today come together to work jointly on the causes and consequences of student poverty and hardship, and some of the solutions to support students to thrive. The high-level roundtable has been convened by the Group of Eight (Go8) which…
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Go8 commends Government and Parliament for passage of legislation enabling Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru
The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, recognises the value to Australia from today’s passage of enabling FTA legislation. “The Government has worked assiduously to ensure this occurred, and the Go8 congratulates it for the effort,” says Go8 Chief Executive Vicki Thomson. “The value of FTAs…
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Universities warned over ties to Chinese military
Representing Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, with seven of its members ranked in the world’s top 100, Go8 Chief Executive Vicki Thomson speaks to the ABC’s AM program on November 26 2019 following the release of the Australian Strategic Policy Unit’s (ASPI’s) “The China Defence Universities Tracker”. Listen via the ABC
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Group of Eight confirms its commitment to excellence with the majority of Australia’s highly cited researchers within Go8 universities
The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s leading research-intensive universities, and with seven of its eight members in the world’s top 100 universities, has an ethos of commitment to excellence; embracing quality students and researchers, and developing leaders in their fields for Australia, and internationally. “The Go8 is therefore…
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Australian universities step up engagement with India
Dawn Freshwater, THE AUSTRALIAN In the past decades, Australian universities have learned that they must adapt or perish. There is no quick death for universities, whose buildings may have stood for decades or centuries. The sledgehammers of the higher education sector take the form of rankings and perceived relevance: less…