Category: News
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Vicki Thomson delivers EduData Summit Keynote Address
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Go8 Opening Statement to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee into the Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
This Committee and its deliberations are critically important to us because we, Australia’s research intensive universities, with seven of our members ranked in the world’s top 100, cannot continue to provide our services to students and the nation with the current funding models in place. Put simply, were it not…
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Go8 Submission: Improving Retention, Completion and Success in Higher Education
Please find below a brief submission on behalf of the Group of Eight (Go8) in response to the Panel’s paper of 9 June 2017 Improving retention, completion and success in higher education. The Go8 commends the Panel on the release of this paper and notes the identification of trends and…
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In the media: Opinion Editorial: It almost reads like a fairy tale … one with a very difficult ending. Its title is Privatisation by Stealth.
The Australian, 12 July 2017 By Vicki Thomson Once upon a time there was a land called Australia where higher education was so valued that its universities were almost totally funded by Government. Indeed, if we cast our minds back to the halcyon days of 1974, when the then Whitlam…
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In the media: Reforms make unis vulnerable, says Go8 chairman Peter Høj
The Australian, 28 June 2017 By Julie Hare Australian universities’ reliance on international students to fund basic teaching and research activities leaves the higher education sector financially vulnerable to any unforeseeable jolts in the market, Peter Hoj, chairman of the Group of Eight says. Proposed government funding cuts of $2.8…
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In the media: Universities attack government funding cuts after Gonski 2.0 delivers schools boon
The Age, 28 June 2017 By Eryk Bagshaw The university sector has attacked the government for pushing through the biggest set of school funding reforms in a generation, while slashing funding to tertiary institutions and hiking student fees. In a move that is set to reignite university funding battles, Group…
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In the media: Universities can’t absorb budget cuts to funding say leading universities
Australian Financial Review, 28 June 2017 By Tim Dodd Australia’s eight leading research universities have told the Turnbull government they cannot absorb the funding cuts announced in the May budget and the quality of their research will suffer if they go ahead. The chair of the Group of Eight universities,…
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Speech by Go8 Chair: A not-so-radical way of securing future prosperity and cohesion for Australia – enhance investments in the public’s innovation assets.
Professor Peter Høj, Chair of the Group of Eight and Vice Chancellor of the University of Queensland, delivered this speech at the National Press Club in Canberra, on 28 June 2017. A not-so-radical way of securing future prosperity and cohesion for Australia – enhance investments in the public’s innovation…
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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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Vicki Thomson delivers EduData Summit Keynote Address
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In the Media: Group of Eight warns students risk paying ‘much more for less’
The Australian, 14 June 2017 By Julie Hare The Group of Eight has renewed its call for an independent higher education commission to oversee higher education policy, arguing the current process lacks clarity, coherence and long-term vision. In its submission to the Senate education and employment committee inquiry into higher…
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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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In the media: ‘Incoherent mess’: elite universities go nuclear on Turnbull government’s reforms
Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2017 By Matthew Knott The nation’s most prestigious universities have launched a savage attack on the Turnbull government’s higher education proposals, decrying them as a “contradictory, incoherent mess” developed on the “back of an envelope”. The Group of Eight (Go8) universities – representing institutions such…
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In the Media: Minister Simon Birmingham faces university revolt on funding
The Australian, 6 June 2017 By Julie Hare Education Minister Simon Birmingham is facing a backlash from vice-chancellors, with 17 of the country’s 39 university leaders condemning his higher education reforms as unfair, punitive and ill-advised. The attack on the higher education reform bill has emerged on two fronts, with…
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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 Submission: ISA 2030 Strategic Plan Issues Paper
The Group of Eight (Go8) welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) 2030 Strategic Plan Issues Paper, released on 24 March 2017. The Go8 institutions may make individual and more detailed responses to the report and therefore the Go8 response is deliberately high-level. 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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In the media: IP Group’s ‘patient money’ a $200m research booster
The Australian, 31 May 2017 By Julie Hare In a landmark deal, at least $200 million will be invested in research in local universities over the next decade, potentially creating dozens of start-ups, opening new markets and attracting investor funds that have previously avoided the university sector. The deal between…
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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…
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Go8 Media Release: Go8 welcomes revamp of medical research programs
The Group of Eight (Go8), comprising Australia’s leading research intensive universities, says announced changes to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants programs will allow researchers to focus on what matters most – excellent research that improves the quality of life for the Australian community. Go8 Chief Executive…
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In the media: Go8 on the radio: University Vice Chancellors resolve to fight cuts in their entirety
Monash University Vice Chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner spoke with Tom Iggulden on ABC Radio PM on Tuesday night, 16 May 2017. TRANSCRIPT: THOMAS ORITI: A hike in university fees and cuts to higher education funding announced in last week’s budget are facing growing opposition. University vice chancellors resolved today to…
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Go8 May 2017 Newsletter
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