Tag: Vicki Thomson
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In the media: Uni fees backflip will flop
The Age, 17 March 2015 By Matthew Knott Deregulation Senate to reject Pyne’s policy shift The Abbott government’s lastditch bid to win support for its higher education reforms by abandoning a threat to sack 1700 scientists has failed to convince the Senate crossbench to support the deregulation of university fees. Education…
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In the media: Libs may take uni reforms to a poll
The Australian, 16 March 2015 By Stefanie Balogh and Sarah Martin THE push to deregulate tertiary fees and “liberate’’ universities will not be abandoned by the government even if the Senate votes down changes this week. As one of Labor’s most senior figures, Peter Beattie, warns that failure to act…
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In the media: Getting uni reform through a ‘challenge’
Skype News Live (PM Agenda), 11 March 2015 Hosted by David Speers Go8 CEO Vicki Thomson discusses the fee reform package (video) Video link: Interview with Vicki Thomson, CEO of the Group of Eight about higher education reforms. Thomson says Christopher Pyne is negotiating his way through a tricky crossbench…
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In the media: Political expediency is the only winner from Christopher Pyne’s latest plan for universities
The Australian Financial Review, 9 March 2015 By Vicki Thomson A compromise which is a solution for only one party, is, by definition, no compromise at all. The only “winner”, if one of the new so-called compromise positions on the de-regulation of higher education fees just happens to luck its…
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Go8 February 2015 Newsletter
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In the media: Free education never existed
The Australian, 29 January 2015 By Vicki Thomson FREE higher education is elitist and it was never “free”. It is past time that was understood. The supposed wonders of that period of “free” education in our universities from 1974 to 1989 keep popping up to pollute the debate on fee…
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In the media: No to Nick
Campus Morning Mail, 22 January 2015 by Stephen Matchett Senator Nick Xenophon’s proposal for yet another review of higher education turned out to be a circuit breaker, sort of. While nobody much liked it, his call for another committee started people talking about ways to break the Senate stalemate over the deregulation…
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In the media: Christopher Pyne’s offer to reverse university cuts fails to win support for deregulation
The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Jan 2015 by Matthew Knott Key Senate crossbenchers say they remain opposed to the deregulation of university fees even if the Abbott government reduces, or scraps entirely, a planned 20 per cent cut to university funding. Independent senator Nick Xenophon said the government’s higher…
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In the media: Universities ramp up offers to lowest tier
The Australian, 19 January 2015 by Julie Hare TWO out of every five students with a tertiary admission rank of 50 or lower who applied for university last year were offered a place, a figure that has quadrupled since 2009, when the figure was one in 10. The trend…
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In the media: Go8’s policy platform
Campus Morning Mail, 16 January 2015 by Stephen Matchett Just days in the job executive director of the Group of Eight, Vicki Thomson begins as she means to go on, setting out a comms strategy designed to put the Eight at the centre of policy debate. “Universities should introduce and…
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In the media: Expect change as reformer Vicki Thomson lands at Go8
The Australian, 14 January 2015 By Julie Hare WHEN Vicki Thomson arrived at the Group of Eight’s Canberra HQ on Monday morning, she already had her first three weeks mapped out. First stop was a staff meeting to say hello and spell out some basic expectations. The new executive director…