Tag: budget
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Media release: Election Eve Budget overlooks drivers of economic growth – innovation, research and development
The election eve Federal budget is a missed opportunity by the Albanese Government to back in the role of Australian universities in addressing cost of living pressures, boosting productivity and building sovereign capability. The Group of Eight (Go8) which undertakes 22 percent of the national research effort says the 2025-26…
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Media release: MYEFO confirms Australia’s economy needs a strong international education sector – Go8
Today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) reveals a weakening of the Australian economy and highlights the importance of a strong export sector, particularly international education which is our most successful services export. Group of Eight (Go8) Chief Executive, Vicki Thomson said Australia is increasingly relying on services exports to…
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In the media: Opinion Editorial: Budget 2018: Canberra giveth, and Canberra taketh away
Budget 2018: Canberra giveth, and Canberra taketh away By Vicki Thomson The Australian May 16, 2018 The Turnbull government’s 2018 budget for higher education is a mixed bag. On the one hand we have a budget that leaves in place comprehensive funding cuts and introduces what can be described only…
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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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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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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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In the media: Simon Birmingham attacks university vice-chancellors’ $1m salaries
Australian Financial Review, 1 May 2017 By Tim Dodd Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham is gearing up for an unprecedented propaganda war on universities, targeting their healthy surpluses, lavish new buildings and university vice-chancellors’ million dollar salaries in an effort to swing public support behind the higher education budget cuts…
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Go8 Media Release: Greens Research Policy Acknowledges Critical Importance of Research
The Australian Greens Science and Research Policy released today is a strong acknowledgement of the importance of research to the transitioning economy. Australia’s leading research intensive universities, the Group of Eight says the policy outlined a series of initiatives to boost spending on research, including improved indirect cost support for…
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Go8 Media Release: Group of Eight welcomes Government’s Budget circuit breaker
The Group of Eight Universities (Go8) is pleased the Government has “hit the reset button” of Higher Education reforms with its Budget Options Paper “Driving Innovation Fairness and Excellence in Australian Higher Education”. “The Go8 called for this circuit breaker just over a year ago and the Government has now…
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In the media: Opinion Editorial: Go8 and University Funding
Australian Financial Review By Vicki Thomson The storm of media and political niggling over the past few weeks about Universities, their quality, their cost, their entry transparency and their funding is to be expected. It’s what happens when public policy errors are made, left to fester without any well-thought-through restoration…
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In the media: Gap between budget rhetoric and outcomes, says Group of Eight
The Australian Financial Review, May 18 2015 By Vicki Thomson Federal Budgets are not usually the catalyst for self-examination, but last week’s budget has been. Working through the budget papers elicited the emotion of “they know not what they do”. And if they don’t then why don’t they, and how…
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Go8 Media Release: Commitment to R&D welcome but where’s the money coming from?
A commitment to increase spending on research and development by the Federal Opposition is welcomed but must be backed up by detail says Australia’s leading research universities. The Group of Eight also welcomed Opposition plans to boost the skills of 25,000 current primary and secondary teachers train 25,000 new teachers…
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Go8 May 2015 Newsletter
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In the media: Budget Special: Pyne buys time
Campus Morning Mail, 13 May 2015 By Stephen Matchett A budget with an intensely political purpose Supporters of the status quo in higher education got what they wanted in last night’s budget – no structural change to the student funding system. But they paid a price for peace with carefully…
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Go8 Statement – Hidden behind all the hyperbole – Cutting research funds is a step too far
It may be cleverly hidden behind words like “adjustment” but the Budget has made a targeted cut to University research block grants. $262 million over three years has been ripped away to fund the essential National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). “While the Go8 absolutely welcomes the NCRIS funding,” said…
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In the media: Science research spared the axe
The Australian, 7 May 2015 By Sarah Martin Science research infrastructure that was threatened by the government’s controversial higher education reforms will receive a $300 million lifeline in next week’s budget. The Australian can reveal that funding for the National Collaborative and Research Infrastructure Strategy will be given a two-year…
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In the media: Balancing the books
Adelaide Advertiser, 18 Mar 2015 By Peter Jean A major political roadblock has left our universities wondering how they can remain financially viable, as PETER JEAN reports. E DUCATION Minister Christopher Pyne this week described himself as a “fixer” who knows how to be politically “nimble”. But Mr Pyne does not…