Tag: higher education
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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: Opinion Editorial: Australia’s higher education sector is one of the best in the world. Fact.
The Australian By Michael Spence and Vicki Thomson Plus, Australia relies on its universities to deliver far more of its research than any other first world nation. Fact. Australia’s research is rated as world class. Fact. Australia’s innovation agenda will rely heavily on universities to drive it. Fact. The evidence…
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Speech by Go8 CEO: Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit
Ms Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive from The Group of Eight, delivered a speech at the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit on 27 September 2015 at Swissotel, Sydney. Please click the link below to view or download the transcript in PDF.
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Go8 Media Release: The Group of Eight backs Universities Australia research and innovation push
The Group of Eight (Go8) is delighted Australia’s universities have embraced a cohesive push for research and innovation to be a crucial national imperative. “As Australia’s group of leading research intensive universities we fully support this push and the call for ‘game-changing’ investment,” says Vicki Thomson, Chief Executive of the…
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Go8 May 2015 Newsletter
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In the media: Why I support the deregulation of higher education
The Conversation, 28 January 2015 By Glyn Davis Over recent weeks, some staff have written to vice-chancellors, urging them to reject the university deregulation measures advocated by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. Public universities, they argue, should not be left to the “vagaries of the market”. I disagree and would like to…