higher education news, april 2010 summary - australian & nz focus

8/9/2019 Higher education news, April 2010 summary - Australian & NZ focus

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Higher education news April 2010 .

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Press release: Bill will slash services and cut representation New Programs to Aid Youth Employment Communiqu for the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) Meeting Student association bill sparks debate Push for intern scheme Political carnage on campus Desperately seeking new set of skills Universities search for more cash Steven Joyce interviewed by Guyon Espiner Enhancing Human Rights Education University makes plea for more funds Uni demands cloud power of watchdog School for national progress $390 000 for action to improve quality of family day care Uni moving forward: Deakin names vice-chancellor Govt may put 2-year block on student loans for new migrants Macquarie to be first uni to open private hospital University Games: Water sports plays key role in shield win The Devils Dictionary Asian University Leaders, Meeting in Australia, Seek to Improve International Ties For-profit universities not welcome in India Education agreement signed with India Governance losses in polytech cuts ISSUES: Structural Adjustment Fund guidelines; university education equity; Investment in skills, AEU

testing boycott; My School; Social Inclusion Structural Adjustment Fund to assist struggling universities University applications up 16.5% Helping young Australians take control of their lives Convention to bring together youth-led organisations $700 000 to support and inspire young Australians South Australia aiming to 'poach' British university students with promise of better quality of life Give it that bold college try NZ Uni games teams start arriving When Indian students suffer, Australia risks being scarred for life Taking research to the top of its class University entrance could be replaced Let The Uni Games Begin Robert Hill to lead Adelaide University's overseas push More student-doctors headed for NT Australia, India sign education deal Foreign students targeted Some Papers Are Uploaded to Bangalore to Be Graded Access Economics to examine costs and funding Beware the second rate UWA decides to dream small when selling its curriculum changes Australia urged to offer permanent residency to top PhD students Uni pushes for TAFE to teach its courses Cracking open the academy AACA National Campus Band Competition / National Campus Film Festival / National Campus Art

Prize / National Campus DJ Competition launched


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Push for intern scheme

The AgeApril 26 2010

EMPLOYERS have urged the federal government to establish a national internship scheme forundergraduates to help deal with the nation's chronic shortage of highly skilled workers.

Full article:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/push-for-intern-scheme-20100425-tloh.html

Political carnage on campus

The New Zealand HeraldApril 25 2010

A Freedom of Association Bill could spell disaster for university students' associations, writes Matt Nipert.

New Zealand University campuses have long been a political forge where the passions of youth aretempered in a process that generates more heat than light.

Full article:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10640682&pnum=0

Desperately seeking new set of skills


ON AN early spring day in Canberra three years ago, Kevin Rudd, then an eager opposition leader onthe verge of becoming prime minister, met the nation's captains of industry at Parliament House.

Discussion at the national manufacturing roundtable lasted most of the day. According to those whoattended, Mr Rudd showed keen interest in an internship scheme for all university students, an ideaproposed by Universities Australia during the talks. Mr Rudd asked to receive a paper on the proposal.

Full article:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/desperately-seeking--new-set-of-skills-20100423-ti12.html

Universities search for more cashStuff.co.nz - New ZealandApril 23 2010

The Government wants more charitable and foreign student cash to keep universities competitive.

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said there was a limit to how much taxpayers could support thetertiary sector and he believed "we're pretty close to that limit".

Full article:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/3613842/Universities-search-for-more-cash
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Steven Joyce interviewed by Guyon Espiner

TVNZApril 18 2010

GUYON Thank you Minister for joining us this morning on the programme we really appreciate yourtime. One of your top priorities in the portfolio is course completion rates, but when you look across thesector amongst all providers all students, the rate of course completion is close to 75%, so is this reallysuch a big problem?

Full article:

http://tvnz.co.nz/q-and-a-news/steven-joyce-interviewed-guyon-espiner-3470798

Enhancing Human Rights Education

Media Release: The Hon Julia Gillard MP, The Hon Robert McClelland MP

April 21 2010

Minister for Education Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland today outlined acomprehensive suite of education initiatives to ensure all Australians have access to information abouthuman rights.

Full article:

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_100421_141010.aspx

University makes plea for more funds

The Otago Daily Times

April 21 2010

University of Otago vice-chancellor Prof Sir David Skegg has urged the Government to invest more inuniversities, saying New Zealand institutions are likely to lose high calibre staff and students to Australiaif it does not.

Otago attracted about $28,000 per equivalent full-time student (eft) place in government tuitionsubsidies, student fees and research income, he said in a statement to appear in the university's 2009annual report.

Full article:

http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/university-otago/102623/university-makes-plea-more-funds

Uni demands cloud power of watchdog

The AustralianApril 21 2010

UNIVERSITIES Australia is pushing for greater control of the development of the new national tertiaryeducation agency following concerns the regulations will be too heavy-handed and undermine universityautonomy.

UA chairman Peter Coaldrake has written to Education Department secretary Lisa Paul calling for thefunctions of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency to be gradually phased in.

Full article:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/uni-demands-cloud-power-of-watchdog/story-e6frgcjx-1225856125587
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School for national progress


KAPIL Sibal, India's Minister for Human Resource Development, was bound to emphasise the safety ofIndian students during his recent visit to Australia, and that captured commentators in both countries.

Full article:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/school-for-national-progress/story-e6frgcko-1225856099329

$390 000 for action to improve quality of family day care

Media Release: The Hon Kate Ellis MPApril 19 2010

The Minister for Early Childhood Education and Child Care Kate Ellis today launched Family Day CareAustralias five year plan Working for a Stronger Future.

The Rudd Government will deliver $390 000 over the next three years to help support theimplementation of Working for a Stronger Future.

Full article:

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Ellis/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_100419_114326.aspx

Uni moving forward: Deakin names vice-chancellor

The Warrnambool StandardApril 19 2010

DEAKIN University has appointed Professor Jane den Hollander, of Western Australia, as its new vice-chancellor to succeed Professor Sally Walker.Professor den Hollander is the deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at Curtin University of Technology anda board member of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Full article:

http://www.standard.net.au/news/local/news/general/uni-moving-forward-deakin-names-vicechancellor/1805959.aspx

Govt may put 2-year block on student loans for new migrantsThe New Zealand HeraldApril 19 2010

New residents and Australians may soon have to live here for two years before they can get studentloans.

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said the Government was considering implementing a two-yearstand-down period before new permanent residents can borrow from the Government to fund tertiarystudies here.

Full article:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10639256
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Macquarie to be first uni to open private hospital

The Sydney Morning HeraldApril 18 2010

A LOCAL version of the famous Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US is about to open.

The $250 million private hospital at Sydney's Macquarie University will use state-of-the art technologyto teach latest techniques to experienced surgeons from Australia and overseas.

Full article:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/macquarie-to-be-first-uni-to-open-private-hospital-20100417-sli1.html

University Games: Water sports plays key role in shield win

The Otago Daily Times - New ZealandApril 17 2010

Otago University's domination of water sports played a key role in Invercargill yesterday when it wonthe New Zealand University Games Shield for the 36th time.

The shield is awarded to the overall champion and was first presented in 1923. Otago last won theshield when it was held in Dunedin in 2004.

Full article:

http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/other-sport/102136/university-games-water-sports-plays-key-role-shield-win

The Devils Dictionary

The Times, Higher EducationApril 14 2010

Feeling lost, angry, disenfranchised? Confused by the jargon overwhelming the academy? Philip Daviesoffers a handy print-out-and-keep guide to the evils of edu-speak

Full article:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=411221&c=1

Asian University Leaders, Meeting in Australia, Seek to Improve International TiesThe Chronicle of Higher EducationApril 15 2010

At a conference here on Australia's east coast that drew hundreds of higher-education leaders from theAsia-Pacific region this week, educators called for equal partnerships with Western institutions andagreed that they needed to become more flexible to adapt to a rapidly changing economicenvironment.

Full article:

http://chronicle.com/article/Asian-University-Leaders/65098/
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For-profit universities not welcome in India

The Times of IndiaApril 15 2010

MUMBAI: India plans to shut its doors to the worlds public and private universities that operate forprofit, thus blithely believing that the move would keep the education sector free of rampantcommercialisation. So the University of Phoenix, of the US, or the aggressively expanding MonashUniversity of Australia, or Britains first private company-university BPP College of Professional Studies,would not be permitted to set foot in the country.

Full article:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/For-profit-universities-not-welcome-in-India/articleshow/5807435.cms

Education agreement signed with IndiaStuff.co.nz - New ZealandApril 12 2010

New Zealand and India have concluded a formal education agreement which ministers are describingas a significant achievement.

It was signed today by Education Minister Anne Tolley and India's Minister for Human ResourceDevelopment, Kapil Sibal.

Full article:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/3574138/Education-agreement-signed-with-India

Governance losses in polytech cuts

The Otago Daily Times - New ZealandApril 15 2010

The Otago Polytechnic council will have to cope with a wholesale loss of institutional knowledge andgovernance experience after the announcement yesterday three of its previous four ministerialappointees have been dumped.

Full article:

http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/otago-polytechnic/101794/governance-losses-polytech-cuts

ISSUES: Structural Adjustment Fund guidelines; university education equity; Investment in skills,AEU testing boycott; My School; Social Inclusion

ABC Newcastle interview transcript: The Hon Julia Gillard MPApril 14 2010

JILL EMBERSEN: In the region this morning and today is Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Shescurrently on route to the University of Newcastle. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment,Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Social Inclusion, a real pleasure to welcome you to1233 this morning.

Full article:

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Transcripts/Pages/Article_100414_174924.aspx
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Structural Adjustment Fund to assist struggling universities

Media Release: The Hon Julia Gillard MPApril 14 2010

Minister for Education Julia Gillard today announced that the draft guidelines for the RuddGovernments $400 million Structural Adjustment Fund were open for consultation.Speaking at the University of Newcastle today, Ms Gillard said the Structural Adjustment Fund wasdesigned to support universities in the transition to the new student-focused funding system.

Full article:

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_100414_151755.aspx

University applications up 16.5%

BBC - United Kingdom

April 14 2010

Universities have warned of turning away thousands of applicants

The latest figures on university applications in the UK show a substantial increase - but at a lower ratethan earlier in the year.

Full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8619922.stm

Helping young Australians take control of their lives


The Minister for Youth Kate Ellis today launched the first national youth strategy to help youngAustralians take charge of their lives.

The National Strategy for Young Australians draws on evidence and experience to help youngAustralians to take on new responsibilities and fully participate in all aspects of Australian life.

Full article:


Convention to bring together youth-led organisationsMedia Release: The Hon Kate Ellis MPApril 14 2010

Minister for Youth Kate Ellis today announced that the Rudd Government will fund a convention forAustralias youth-led organisations to share and build their expertise.

Youth-led organisations play a vital role in facilitating youth development and promoting the physical,mental and social wellbeing of young Australians, Ms Ellis said.

Full article:

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$700 000 to support and inspire young Australians


The Minister for Youth Kate Ellis today announced an extra $700,000 to help inspire, support andencourage young people across Australia.

The funding is part of the Rudd Governments Youth Development and Support Program, which fundscommunity organisations to run projects that benefit young people.

Full article:


South Australia aiming to 'poach' British university students with promise of better quality of life

The Daily Mail - United KingdomApril 13 2010

South Australia has launched an aggressive raid on British university students with the promise of abooming economy and better quality of life.

The state is seeking to 'poach' British talent concerned at graduate job opportunities in the UK and theprospect of rising tuition fees.

Full article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265732/South-Australia-aiming-poach-British-university-students-promise-better-quality-life.html

Give it that bold college try


EACH year university residences fill with about 40,000 residents. Close to half are young 18-year-olds.They are ready to go, ready for anything and especially ready for new experiences.

Residential colleges have been moored to the wharves of Australian universities for more than 150years, with the establishment at the University of Sydney of St Paul's in 1856 and then St John's a yearor so later. During the next 100 years a further 33 would be built and anchored close to the handful ofinstitutions that for nearly 100 years were our only universities.

Full article:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/give-it-that-bold-college-try/story-e6frgcko-1225853332665

NZ Uni games teams start arriving

The Southland Times - New ZealandApril 13 2010

The New Zealand University Games headquarters at Stadium Southland could best be described as thecalm before the storm yesterday.

Full article:http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/sport/3574347/Uni-games-teams-start-arriving/
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When Indian students suffer, Australia risks being scarred for life


Australia's handling of the assaults on Indian students has been a debacle. And it's still a mess. Thecountry has suffered real reputational damage, real economic cost, and real diplomatic disadvantage.Reputation is central to its ''soft power'', or its ability to influence others through attraction, in thelanguage of modern power theorists. We know this episode has damaged ours because of thetestimony of, for example, the no-nonsense John McCarthy, until recently Australia's high commissioner inIndia.

Full article:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/when-indian-students-suffer-australia-risks-being-scarred-for-life-20100412-s3zh.html

Taking research to the top of its class


IN 1928, an American, James Russell, reputed to have created his country's finest teaching college atColumbia University, came to Melbourne on a reconnaissance mission.

Russell, recently retired from his position as dean of the college in New York, had a new job. He was anenvoy of the fabulously wealthy Carnegie Corporation, a philanthropic organisation whose $US125million endowment fund had been established 17 years earlier by steel baron Andrew Carnegie.

Full article:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/taking-research-to-the-top-of-its-class-20100409-rxja.html

University entrance could be replaced

Radio New ZealandApril 12 2010

The Qualifications Authority is considering replacing University Entrance with a common entry standardfor all degrees.

University Entrance is required for people under the age of 20 who want to study at a New Zealanduniversity.

Full article:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/12/1247fdebbd1c

Let The Uni Games Begin

Voxy.co.nz - New ZealandApril 11 2010

Nearly 800 student athletes from throughout New Zealand will arrive in the city this week to compete atthe annual Uni Games - and Invercargill is set to reap the rewards.

Along with the athletes, support staff, officials and over 100 volunteers directly involved with the UniGames in Invercargill, a further 270 rowers and fencers are currently competing at venues in Waiholaand Dunedin respectively, with many expected to venture south later in the week.
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Full article:

http://www.voxy.co.nz/sport/let-uni-games-begin/5/44631

Robert Hill to lead Adelaide University's overseas push


FORMER defence minister Robert Hill has been appointed University of Adelaide's next chancellor,foreshadowing a diplomatic drive to further swell the ranks of international students.

Mr Hill, who has served as Australia's representative to the UN since retiring from the Senate, yesterdaysaid he considered the role more than a figurehead position, and hoped to play a key role inrecruitment and improving infrastructure.

Full article:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/robert-hill-to-lead-adelaide-universitys-overseas-push/story-e6frg6nf-1225852045710

More student-doctors headed for NT


The Northern Territory will begin "growing their own" doctors from next year, when Flinders Universityopens a new medical school at Charles Darwin University.

The new facility will mean postgraduate medical students from NT, who previously had to relocate toAdelaide to complete the first two years of their degree, will now be able to do all four years of thecourse in the Territory.

Full article:

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/more-studentdoctors-headed-for-nt-20100409-ryn7.html

Australia, India sign education deal

AAP via The Sydney Morning HeraldApril 08 2010

Three months after the stabbing death of Indian graduate Nitin Garg on his way to work in Melbourne,Australia and India have signed a major deal on education.

An India-Australia Education Council - made up of experts from both sides - will be formed and a jointministerial statement has been signed to expand the education exchange program.

Full article:

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/australia-india-sign-education-deal-20100408-ru4p.html

Foreign students targeted

The Manawatu StandardApril 08 2010
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To help bankroll tertiary education, Steven Joyce plans to increase international student numbers andencourage commercial university research.

The tertiary education minister, who visited Palmerston North yesterday, said making New Zealand aworld leader in English language-based education will not be at the expense of local students.

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/3553161/Foreign-students-targeted

Some Papers Are Uploaded to Bangalore to Be Graded

The Chronicle of Higher EducationApril 04 2010

Lori Whisenant, who teaches business law and ethics at the U. of Houston, has outsourced the grading of

students' papers to a private company.

Lori Whisenant knows that one way to improve the writing skills of undergraduates is to make themwrite more. But as each student in her course in business law and ethics at the University of Houstonbegan to crank outoften awkwardlynearly 5,000 words a semester, it became clear to her thatwhat would really help them was consistent, detailed feedback.

Full article:

http://chronicle.com/article/Outsourced-Grading-With/64954/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Access Economics to examine costs and funding


ACCESS Economics has been given the job too tough for the landmark Bradley review of highereducation.

The university sector is about to embark on a lively new debate likely to result in some students payingincreased fees and significant funding shifting between universities, senior observers say.

Full article:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/access-economics-to-examine-costs-and-funding/story-e6frgcjx-1225850635036

Beware the second rate


THE way students will be admitted, universities funded, research organised and rewarded is changing,following the government's adoption of the Bradley review.

Last year Education Minister Julia Gillard announced a series of important policies. By 2025 thegovernment aims to increase the proportion of young Australians with bachelors' degrees from about 30per cent to 40 per cent.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/beware-the-second-rate/story-e6frgcko-1225850641166

UWA decides to dream small when selling its curriculum changes


THE University of Western Australia wants its extensive shake-up of curriculum to be as matter-of-fact aspossible, dropping the previous Future Framework branding for the more prosaically named NewCourses 2012.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/uwa-decides-to-dream-small-when-selling-its-curriculum-changes/story-e6frgcjx-1225850639399

Australia urged to offer permanent residency to top PhD students

ABC RadioApril 05 2010

Australia's top eight universities have warned the country's economic development could suffer if thegovernment doesn't do more to attract top research talent. They say there's a global war to entice thebest and they've recommended Canberra hold out the prospect of permanent residency in Australia forthose who complete their PhD's in Australia. The universities' recommendation comes as the Ruddgovernment reviews its skilled migration program.

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http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201004/s2864258.htm

Uni pushes for TAFE to teach its courses


A SYDNEY university wants to franchise its degree courses to TAFE colleges, which are traditionallyregarded as the "poor cousins" in the higher education sector.

Macquarie University's vice-chancellor, Steven Schwartz, is negotiating for targeted courses to be taughtat TAFE to increase the numbers of poor and disadvantaged students.

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http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/uni-pushes-for-tafe-to-teach-its-courses-20100402-rjya.html

Cracking open the academy


With the government offering $14 million in support, debate on how to enrol more disadvantagedstudents is raging at universities, writes Heath Gilmore.
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The one-time national shot-putting champion Taniela Afu is an unlikely threat to the ruling elite. As thefirst member of his family to attend university, he is one of a new class of students about to turn theworld of academia on its head.

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http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/cracking-open-the-academy-20100402-rjxw.html

Australasian Association of Campus Activities (AACA): 2010 national student competitions

National Campus Band Competition launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncbcNational Campus Film Festival launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncffNational Campus Art Prize launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncapNational Campus DJ Competition launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncdjc

ACUMA Incorporated: Items in the press - monthly round-ups

- Higher education news- International issues in education, and items affecting international students- Technology developments of relevance to campus services

http://www.acuma.org.au/resource_library/in_the_press/
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higher education news, april 2010 summary - australian & nz focus

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