Tag: Higher education reform
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In the media: Opinion Editorial: Uni cuts put our skills and prosperity at risk
The West Australian, 27 September 2017 By Professor Dawn Freshwater, Vice Chancellor, University of Western Australia Technology is rapidly changing the way we live and work, impacting every aspect of our lives. Careers that were once considered secure, are being disrupted by automation and robotics, amongst other forces. Unsurprisingly there…
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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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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: Opinion Editorial: It’s time to charge a realistic price for uni degrees
By Dr Michael Spence Financial Review Last week, John Dawkins took to pen and paper to call for comprehensive higher education reform. This call is a welcome contribution to an important policy debate that has gone rather quiet of late. As Minister for Education under the Hawke and Keating governments,…