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More »VSU back on the agenda, post-election
Student services might get their own funding stream, with a more sympathetic Senate appearing likely after the election. A re-elected Labor federal government will put the student amenities and services fee back on the agenda, education minister Simon Crean said ...
More »A Pretty solution to the politics of VCAM
Melbourne University last week released its response into a review of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music – but it still has to plug the $6 million annual funding gap. The upcoming federal and Victorian elections appear to ...
More »International enrolment slump a South Asian phenomenon
The slump in visa grants has been limited to a few markets – but it’s early days yet. The crash in international student enrolments so far has mainly been limited to the Indian subcontinent, according to the latest student visa ...
More »Deakin keeps the lines open for gap year students
Deakin will let its new undergraduates defer for two years, but it wants them to stay in touch. Deakin University has introduced a two-year deferral option for its new undergraduates, in the face of Youth Allowance changes expected to encourage ...
More »Is that it?
Joseph Gora’s son is a first-year undergraduate and he’s already disenchanted with uni life. You know the song ‘Glory Days’ by The Boss - Bruce Springsteen. It’s a rousing anthem about how people reminisce about a fictitious past all aglow ...
More »Pay for performance
Performance-based funding is appealing to governments, but Peter Ewell argues there are three reasons why it’s not an effective mechanism There is something quite beguiling about performance funding. It is relentlessly capitalistic and is largely in accord with the way ...
More »The story continues ‘
Which story exactly? The one about the increase in the number of university graduates that the western world lusts after, writes Stuart Middleton. Increasingly, we are becoming very specific about the skills and knowledge students need if they are to ...
More »Change underpins academic dissatisfaction
Australian academics are an unhappy lot, particularly when it comes to their attitudes to senior management, a new paper has found. Rapid and unprecedented changes in the higher education sphere have led to widespread grumbling among Australian academics, threatening further ...
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