CAPA
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Funding
Mixed responses to Education Minister’s ‘performance-driven’ university funding plan
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan’s $80-million pledge for “performance-based” university funding will have many “unforeseeable”, “perverse” and “unintended” consequences for…
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News
Contract cheating draft legislation too heavy-handed: unis, students
A student helping out a struggling classmate might be worried they’re incriminating themselves should draft legislation to prohibit academic cheating…
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Commentary
Proposed contract cheating legislation a good first step but more action needed
Contract cheating refers to students outsourcing their assessments to professional cheating services or through arrangements with friends or peers. A…
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Policy & Reform
Peak science body endorses student-research supervisor relationship ban
In August last year, in the wake of the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) watershed report into sexual assault and harassment…
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News
‘Contrived, pointless, and a total waste of taxpayer money’: groups respond to freedom of speech review
On Thursday, university personnel, fittingly, exercised their freedom of speech. Responding to the government's announcement of a review into freedom…
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Policy & Reform
‘Many…cannot afford to eat’: Poverty-stricken postgrads plea for concessions
Eniola David Ibraheem, the second of four children, hails from Nigeria. He initially studied international law and diplomacy, and worked…
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On Campus
‘Pride chats’ and affordable student housing among new postgrad initiatives
What exactly is a 'pride chat'? With the launch of its new campaign, the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA)…
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News
Australia’s first survey of PhD graduate outcomes
In an Australian-first, Group of Eight universities will investigate and publish the extent to which PhD students contribute to the…
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News
HECS legislation passes through Lower House
The federal government has scrapped plans to place a "lifetime cap" on student loans, but has been granted support from…
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News
Students collaborate to fight changes to HELP scheme
The National Union of Students (NUS) and the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) have launched a campaign to fight…
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News
Exploitation of international students must stop: CAPA
As universities celebrate the economic and cultural wealth associated with record numbers of international students, others have used the news…
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News
The case against changing university loans: CAPA
Plans to introduce a lower repayment threshold for student loans are unscrupulous and will reduce the number of skilled graduates,…
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Policy & Reform
Postgrads speak up on sexual assault
Sexual assault and harassment on campus isn’t just the concern of vulnerable first-years. That’s why the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA),…
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Push to get PhDs into workforce
Universities have to do more to support their doctoral candidates and it can start with giving them a desk and…
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Postgrads need more from MyUni
The federal government has missed the chance to capture prospective postgraduate research students through its new MyUniversity website, says the…
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Mature aged students ‘forgotten’
The outgoing chief executive of Universities Australia is appealing for a national policy that would help boost enrolments of mature-age…
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Govt and uni recruiters swayed by age
Older postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences are being overlooked for government and academic jobs because of their…
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