Australian & NZ Higher Education News in February 2011

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Australian higher education news summary for February 2011
New ANU chief lands on our shores

Cameron Offices set to house UC students
University chief Chubb bows out
Statement regarding TEQSA legislation
Quality assurance bill up for debate
Online study kills uni life
Relief as draft TEQSA legislation released
Students live it up in new ANU lodge
Local young guns hold their own among world's best
Risk-based approach to regulation
Chubb reflects on friends and influence
Victoria fights to retain state influence
New work rules may prove to be a tough test
Higher education can help balance two-speed economy
ANU, Mongolia agree to share knowledge
Ballarat students deferring university
(International) Student accommodation too costly
Otago University Students' Association pushing for new members now
New students invited to 'spread their wings'
Gillard government avoids showdown on student bill it said was unconstitutional
Bill on student income support unconstitutional: Speaker
Largest ever intake of Indigenous medical students announced
Ballarat police ready for O-week
Youth Allowance scheme is wasted on the uhm, err...
Digital Education Revolution broadly on track
Costly knowledge (for NZ students)
Bid to counter University of Newcastle exodus
Borders Will Close 200 Stores
Wilkie accord to save teaching awards
Ghosts of Orientations past
Positive actions to ensure continuing support for quality university teaching
Tiny South Australian university gets big bucks
Speaking the lingo: case of the ERA
Abolishing ALTC is another national disaster
University of Western Australia to expand student lodgings
Universities must brace for ERA funding consequences
When standards falter in favour of profits
University of Southern Queensland plan for free online university
University offers daddy of all parental leave schemes
Gillard faces battle over student bill
Students squeezed in unit scarcity
Doubts about new regulator for TAFE
Newcastle University asking 'too much'
The new ERA of journal ranking
Nationals fighting for rural students
Does university business education still pay?
Australian National University breaks $1b barrier
Call to guarantee tertiary access for every ACT student
Youth Allowance bill irresponsible: Labor
Apprenticeship changes 'not privatisation by stealth'
Assessment finds sciences to be the true wizards of Oz
From where I sit everyone wins in (OER) free-for-all
‘OER university’ to cut cost of degree
Canberra set to be the 'learning capital'
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Memory scholar Hayne new Vice-Chancellor at Otago

The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education
Our university punching above its weight in research
Overseas students are getting harder to attract and unis will feel the squeeze
Compacts may not solve skew
Young campuses harder to rank
Evaluation vital for higher aim
ANU turns to hotels to house students
Academia concerned at ageing workforce
Growth is a matter of degree for Navitas
The corruption of ethics in higher education
Cuts to higher education for flood relief
Top students gather for conference
Shelving Hunger (with Student Food Banks)
Reunion for city college
Borders Group May File for Bankruptcy as Soon as Next Week; Shares Decline
First research exercise a mixed bag
ALTC responds to closure announcement
Higher education forum in Busselton
UTAS wins top research marks
Areas below world class at greater risk
Notre Dame makes bid to go public
Push to save university teaching council
Universities face staff shortages
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New ANU chief lands on our shores

The Canberra Times
March 01 2011
Canberra is a long way inland for one of the country's leading oceanographers.
But Ian Young is happy to trade salt winds and waves for a chance to lead the Australian National
University.
Starting work today as the institution's 11th vice-chancellor, Professor Young has spent the past eight
years as vice-chancellor of the Swinburne University of Technology and....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/n7RjT
Cameron Offices set to house UC students

The Canberra Times
February 28 2011
The University of Canberra is in advanced talks to buy one of the wings of Belconnen's Cameron Offices
and turn it into rooms for 220 students.
The university has secured ACT Government agreement to help clinch the $23 million deal and....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/CVZew
University chief Chubb bows out

The Sydney Morning Herald
February 28 2011
HE HAS, as former foreign minister Gareth Evans said recently, "the kind of presence that is not easily
ignored or forgotten".
"If you have ever seen him getting out of his big black car, in his dark suit and with his wraparound
shades, you'll know what I mean," Evans, now the chancellor of the Australian National University....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/plnuk
Statement regarding TEQSA legislation

Universities Australia
February 24 2011
The Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Senator the Hon. Christopher
Evans has released for public comment the exposure draft of the Tertiary Education Quality and
Standards Agency (TEQSA) legislation. In doing so he has also advised that the legislation will be
subject to a Senate inquiry....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/r7IPN
Quality assurance bill up for debate

University World News
February 24 2011
The federal government has released a draft of legislation establishing Australia's first tertiary
education quality and standards agency. Known as TEQSA, the agency will combine regulations
currently applied by the states with activities at present undertaken by the Australian Universities
Quality Agency....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/V2UNA
Online study kills uni life

February 27 2011
THE push towards web-based learning at universities has halved student attendance rates in some
courses and dramatically increased working hours for lecturers, a survey of academics by The Sun-
Herald has found.
Thousands of students will crowd into campuses across the country tomorrow for the first day....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/vc4GK
Relief as draft TEQSA legislation released

The Australian
February 24 2011
THE long awaited release of legislation for the new higher education regulator has brought relief to a
university sector that had been nervous of excessive red tape, but students fear standards now won't be
rigorous enough.
The release of draft legislation to establish the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/JTmZp
Students live it up in new ANU lodge

The Canberra Times
February 23 2011
This year may be the last time the Australian National University has to place its first-year students in
motel-style accommodation.
The institution officially opened its third block of student apartments yesterday, offering another....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/2JTri
Local young guns hold their own among world's best

The Australian
February 23 2011
THERE is one critical measure missing from the recently published Excellence in Research for Australia
report that obscures its value.
There is no assessment of how Australia's newest generation of researchers are performing....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/uMrB5
Risk-based approach to regulation

The Australian
February 23 2011
KEY legislation to establish the new tertiary education watchdog has adopted three principles to set up
a risk-based approach.
The principles are aimed at allaying fears among universities that they face a regulatory crackdown....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/pzzFe
Chubb reflects on friends and influence

The Australian
February 23 2011
Ian Chubb, a passionate advocate of higher education, retires as vice-chancellor of Australian National
University this week. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Australian
IN 2006, Ian Chubb wrote a piece for his local paper titled "Why we need controversy"....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/tazlc
Victoria fights to retain state influence

The Australian
February 23 2011
VICTORIA'S new Coalition government is prepared to take on the commonwealth over its centralisation
of tertiary education to preserve state influence, potentially further delaying key legislation.
Legislation for the planned national vocational education and training regulator has already been
delayed by its referral to a Senate committee and Victorian Minister for Higher Education and....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/D7k3q
New work rules may prove to be a tough test

The Australian
February 23 2011
THE tougher independence work test for youth allowance is likely to cause a spike in drop-out rates
among regional students.
Tertiary education minister Chris Evans this week caved into pressure from rural independent MPs and
brought forward a review of the youth allowance....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/tNL8b
Higher education can help balance two-speed economy

The Australian
February 23 2011
This resources boom is unlike Australia's previous ones and raises four key questions
IN the aftermath of the global financial crisis, Australia can be pleased about the way in which it has
emerged relatively unscathed. There are several reasons for this including the resources boom,
stimulated by the rapid growth of Asian economies and....
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http://goo.gl/eLdVw
ANU, Mongolia agree to share knowledge

ABC News
February 22 2011
The ANU has pledged a commitment to Mongolian studies after signing a new agreement with the
Mongolian Government.
Mongolian prime minister Sukhbaatar Batbold has signed an agreement with the Australian National
University (ANU) in a bid to....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/33whQ
Ballarat students deferring university

The Courier
February 22 2011
A FOUR-year government study has confirmed students from Ballarat and regions are at a
disadvantage when it comes to going to university.
According to the 2010 Deferring a University Offer in Regional Victoria report, deferral rates of
Victoria's rural and regional students remain much higher....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/3HpeR
(International) Student accommodation too costly

The Age
February 22 2011
International students are mostly satisfied with studying in Australia, but a large minority say the costs of
accommodation and living are too high, a survey has found.
The International Student Barometer, a survey for Universities Australia, the peak representative body
for universities, received responses from more than 36,000 international students and....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/SJ18Q
Otago University Students' Association pushing for new members now

Radio New Zealand
February 22 2011
The Otago University Students' Association is anticipating the possible introduction of voluntary student
unionism next year by campaigning for new members now....
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http://goo.gl/2f5DC
New students invited to 'spread their wings'

The Otago Daily Times
February 22 2011
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull extended a welcome and then immediately issued a warning to new
University of Otago students yesterday.
The students should enjoy what Dunedin had to offer, but be wary of the dangers that existed in a large
city....
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http://goo.gl/0mZJ2
Gillard government avoids showdown on student bill it said was unconstitutional

The Australian
February 21 2011
JULIA Gillard has avoided an embarrassing blow to her minority government's fragile control over the
House of Representatives, with parliament throwing out a Coalition bill Labor said was unconstitutional.
The government prevented debate on the bill, to extend youth allowance eligibility to inner-regional
students, with the support of all three country independents....
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http://goo.gl/j5SYY
Bill on student income support unconstitutional: Speaker

February 21 2011
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Harry Jenkins has determined a Senate bill on student
income support is unconstitutional.
The bill, proposed by Nationals senator Fiona Nash and passed by the Senate this month, proposes to
make Youth Allowance more widely available to regional students....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/do4ff
Largest ever intake of Indigenous medical students announced

Charles Darwin University News
February 21 2011
The largest intake of Indigenous medical students ever to a single Australian course has been accepted
into Flinders University’s new Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP).
The Flinders University cohort of 14 Indigenous students in first year medicine in 2011 – 10 based in the
Northern Territory and four in South Australia – compares with the total of nine Indigenous students
who....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/bWOoz
Ballarat police ready for O-week

The Courier
February 21 2011
THE University of Ballarat is preparing to kick off of orientation week activities and festivities today, but
police have warned students to behave or suffer the consequences.
Senior Sergeant Gary Pilmore said police had been working with UB to prepare for the notoriously
troublesome week....
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http://goo.gl/UidA0
Youth Allowance scheme is wasted on the uhm, err...

ABC, Australia
February 21 2011
The Youth Allowance scheme is the repository of many cruel ironies, not least among which is the fact
that one now requires a PhD to work out whether one is eligible for it.
In the old days, there wasn't much by way of administrative complication at university that couldn't be
solved with five pints, a fake ID and a quick loan....
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http://goo.gl/dRJxk
Digital Education Revolution broadly on track

Delimiter.com.au
February 18 2011
The Federal Government’s auditor yesterday revealed Labor’s $2.2 billion dollar Digital Education
Revolution was well placed to deliver one computer to every student in Years 9 to 12, by the end of
2011.
The DER is a project started by then newly-elected Labor Government in 2007 which aims....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/L8k17
Costly knowledge (for NZ students)

Otago Daily Times
February 19 2011
For some people, university degrees are a way of "buying themselves" a high-income job but not
something they actually use, says student Dan Bregmen.
The 24-year-old is pondering which is the right degree to be doing at a time when the average student
loan debt is more than....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/0BUju
Bid to counter University of Newcastle exodus

The Herald, Australia
February 19 2011
The University of Newcastle has been forced to refocus its marketing campaign in an effort to continue
to attract lucrative international student enrolments following an exodus of wealthy Saudi students from
the institution....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/SrdyQ
Borders Will Close 200 Stores

MediaBistro.com
February 16 2011
In a sad piece of news for readers, publishers, writers and booksellers, Borders will close 200 stores as
part of its bankruptcy proceedings. Follow this PDF link to read the complete list of stores that will close.
Borders Group filed for bankruptcy this morning. The company has opened a special website....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/WLjsi
Wilkie accord to save teaching awards

The Australian
February 18 2011
AWARDS and grants for university teaching would be saved under a flood levy deal agreed by
independent MP Andrew Wilkie and the Government.
Today Mr Wilkie said he would support the levy and the Government would restore $50 million of the
$88 million that was to be saved for flood recovery by axing the Australian Learning and Teaching
Council....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/HJg4M
Ghosts of Orientations past

Stuff.co.nz
February 17 2011
1992 was truly a golden summer.
With Dipak Patel opening the bowling and Rod Latham the batting, the Kiwi cricketers were near
unbeatable. Right Said Fred battled Big Audio Dynamite for airwave supremacy, while cinemagoers
could choose between Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear remake and the much- anticipated Highlander
sequel....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/SNK2B
Positive actions to ensure continuing support for quality university teaching

Universities Australia
February 17 2011
Universities Australia welcomes the agreement announced today between the Gillard Government and
the Australian Greens, ensuring that outcomes from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)
will be retained and the National Rental Affordability Scheme will now continue into the longer term.
Universities Australia CEO Dr Glenn Withers said....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/8zlsc
Tiny South Australian university gets big bucks

The Australian
February 16 2011
The Rann government is being attacked over its $4.4 million spending on scholarships at a tiny, US-
owned university.
Since the Carnegie Mellon University opened its Adelaide campus in 2006, the government has spent
nearly $2.8m on scholarships for 57 public servants. Figures obtained under Freedom of Information....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/9vwFO
Speaking the lingo: case of the ERA

The Australian
February 16 2011
AN Australian, I have spent almost 17 years experiencing Britain's Research Assessment Exercise in
various capacities, and almost as long assessing research for international research councils. Advising
British universities, and an Australian university or two, on recent research assessment strategies, the
areas with which I have most often worked are those in the creative industries, the arts, creative
technologies and the humanities....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/sCL0v
Abolishing ALTC is another national disaster

Daryl Le Grew, VC University of Tasmania, in The Australian
February 16 2011
THE recent decision to abolish the Australian Learning and Teaching Council as part of the flood
reconstruction savings process is among the most shortsighted and damaging decisions for higher
education that I have seen in many years....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/TGmdX
University of Western Australia to expand student lodgings

The Australian
February 16 2011
THE University of Western Australia hopes to double the number of students living on campus, thereby
intensifying learning beyond the classroom.
"There's a lot in education that's not taught; it's learned," senior deputy vice chancellor Bill Louden said....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/Sm7Mw
Universities must brace for ERA funding consequences

The Australian
February 16 2011
Higher education elder statesman Frank Larkins at the University of Melbourne has written a history of
the past 20 years of the sector.
FRANK Larkins is an elder statesman of higher education, but there has been no mellowing of views
attached to that distinction.
Tomorrow his vice-chancellor, University of Melbourne's Glyn Davis, will launch Larkins's book on....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/RQ43X
When standards falter in favour of profits

The Australian
February 16 2011
THE US Department of Education was recently swamped by 90,000 submissions on its proposal to clamp
down on low-quality higher education programs that leave students with large debts and poor
prospects for employment, a move explicitly targeting the for-profit sector.
Students at for-profit institutions represent 11 per cent of all higher education students....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/x08TX
University of Southern Queensland plan for free online university

The Australian
February 16 2011
THE University of Southern Queensland is leading a charge to establish an open source online university
for all-comers, no matter where in the world they reside.
Under the plan, access to modules will be free, with students paying a fee only should they choose to be
assessed for the subject....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/Endg0
University offers daddy of all parental leave schemes

February 15 2011
IT IS arguably the most generous paid parental leave scheme in the country - one to rival the much-
vaunted policies of employers in Sweden and Denmark....
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http://goo.gl/wW3kF
Gillard faces battle over student bill

AAP via Sydney Morning Herald
February 15 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces a battle in her bid to prevent parliament passing a coalition draft law
boosting regional student support.
The Senate has passed a bill, proposed by Nationals senator Fiona Nash, to make youth allowance
more widely available to regional students....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/MRn3x
Students squeezed in unit scarcity

The Age
February 16 2011
Landlords 'confiscate' student passports
The National Union of Students says there have been many instances of landlords exploiting vulnerable
foreign students.
IT HAS one fridge, 12 single beds and no visitors are allowed.
A Melbourne apartment on La Trobe Street is being advertised for $150 a week, plus bond, but
there....
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http://goo.gl/NaiMd
Doubts about new regulator for TAFE

The Australian
February 15 2011
The federal government is ramming through patchy and sub-standard rules to try to regulate the
tertiary education sector, commentators warn.
Yesterday's COAG communique said there was in-principle agreement to legislation that would
create....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/FPwpj
Newcastle University asking 'too much'

The Newcastle Herald
February 14 2011
The University of Newcastle should scale back its request for federal money to support a city campus
expansion and consider a public-private partnership for the project in light of new pressure on the
federal budget, Minister for the Hunter Jodi McKay says....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ahYSR
The new ERA of journal ranking

February 13 2011
It was recently announced that the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative will remain largely
unchanged in the coming year, and will remain as an instrument used by the Australian government to
determine the level of research funding available to Australian universities....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/SE0Hg
Nationals fighting for rural students

The Daily Advertiser
February 14 2011
RIVERINA MP Michael McCormack has labelled Julia Gillard undemocratic and un-Australian after she
threatened to block legislation designed to provide financial assistance to rural university students.
Young-based Nationals senator Fiona Nash last week succeeded in getting a Senate Bill through....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/3AiPL
Does university business education still pay?

February 14 2011
Shonky?... Research shows many Australian institutions offering MBAs are performing well below world
standard.
The start of school and university terms always tempts me to enrol in another part-time master’s subject.
There’s a course I’d love to do, but for the first time I’ll bypass university and try to replicate some....
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http://goo.gl/Mtta6
Australian National University breaks $1b barrier

The Canberra Times
February 11 2011
The ANU has joined the exclusive club of Australian universities with annual operating incomes of more
than $1 billion dollars.
The Australian National University's outgoing vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb told a gathering....
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http://goo.gl/Bb7O7
Call to guarantee tertiary access for every ACT student

The Canberra Times
February 10 2011
Canberra school students should have a guaranteed access to post-Year 12 education, a new report to
the ACT Government says.
And greater cooperation between the CIT, UC and Australian National University is required so....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/avGkJ
Youth Allowance bill irresponsible: Labor

February 10 2011
Parliament could be faced with a constitutional crisis after a coalition bill aimed at helping rural students
get to university was passed by the Senate.
The federal government claims Nationals senator Fiona Nash's legislation is unconstitutional because
proposed laws for the appropriation of revenue or monies cannot originate in the Senate or....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/6SKDc
Apprenticeship changes 'not privatisation by stealth'

ABC.net.au
February 11 2011
New subsidies will help address skills shortages (7pm TV News SA)
Motor trades, electrical and plumbing apprentices will benefit financially from an overhaul of the
vocational training system in South Australia....
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http://goo.gl/Pgt2Q
Assessment finds sciences to be the true wizards of Oz

Times Higher Education
February 10 2011
Humanities scholars say research findings are due to Australian system's 'biases', Paul Jump writes
Australian research is much stronger in the sciences than the humanities and social sciences, according to
the country's first national research assessment programme....
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http://goo.gl/MLtjw
From where I sit everyone wins in (OER) free-for-all

February 10 2011
The term open educational resources (OER) encapsulates the simple but powerful idea that the world's
knowledge is a public good. The internet offers unprecedented opportunities to share, use and reuse
knowledge. Sadly, most of the planet is underserved when it comes to post-secondary education....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/BXYWG
‘OER university’ to cut cost of degree

February 10 2011
Universities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are hoping to achieve "a quantum shift" in open
educational resources (OERs) by launching an "OER university".
A group of universities plans to draw together existing free online learning materials from around the
world and develop new OERs to create whole degree programmes that can be studied via....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/YlVTo
Canberra set to be the 'learning capital'

ABC.net.au
February 09 2011
The ACT Government says a new report will help to position Canberra as the nation's learning capital.
The ACT Tertiary Education Taskforce, set up last year, has recommended a steering committee to....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/TJ1PX
Memory scholar Hayne new Vice-Chancellor at Otago

Otago Daily Times
February 10 2011
Psychology researcher Prof Harlene Hayne has been appointed University of Otago vice-chancellor, the
first woman in this role. Prof Hayne (49), the university's research and enterprise deputy vice-chancellor,
will replace....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/S4XcM
The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education

Vol 2, No 1
The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education (Int J FYHE) focuses on research and
practice about enhancing the experience of commencing students....
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http://goo.gl/tJe98
Our university punching above its weight in research

The Armidale Express
February 09 2011
A LONG awaited assessment of research standards in Australian universities shows the University of
New England to be a strong player in niche areas.
In two disciplines - animal production and pure mathematics - UNE scored a ranking above....
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http://goo.gl/OmmVk
Overseas students are getting harder to attract and unis will feel the squeeze
Steven Schwartz on OnlineOpinion.com.au
February 08 2011
Prince Charles took his wife for a spin in the family Rolls Royce through London last month and entered a
maelstrom.
Demonstrators protesting over funding cuts to universities surrounded the Prince’s ancient Rolls Royce and
proceeded to decorate it with rotten eggs. The Prince and the Duchess escaped unscathed; higher
education was not quite so lucky. And the turbulence created by that maelstrom will....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/Eswwe
Compacts may not solve skew

The Australian
February 09 2011
HOPE that university compacts will keep researchers engaged with local business and communities may
prove illusory, commentators say.
Research Minister Kim Carr argues mission-based compacts will help resolve tension between
engagement and the global research incentives offered by Excellence in Research for Australia....
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http://goo.gl/lTn2r
Young campuses harder to rank

The Australian
February 09 2011
Professor Caroline McMillen wants an age-comparative measure for universities. Picture: Kelly Barnes
Source: The Australian
IN the week that the first research assessment league table for Australian universities was published,
Caroline McMillen addressed the Australian Technology Network universities on the subject of....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/G3IcE
Evaluation vital for higher aim

The Australian
February 09 2011
IT costs $US7 billion a year, has been publicly funded since JFK held office, and is close to useless.
What is it? Head Start, one of the most expensive public programs to use education as an instrument of
social mobility.
Like many similar educational programs introduced across the US, Europe and Australia, Head Start
thrived under the illusion of success for many years because unscientific evaluation....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/dlm6V
ANU turns to hotels to house students

ABC.net.au
February 08 2011
The ANU offers a guarantee that it will provide accommodation for all first year students from outside
Canberra.
A motel in Canberra's inner-north is the latest accommodation centre for Australian National University
(ANU) students....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ee5ae
Academia concerned at ageing workforce

TVNZ
February 07 2011
A new report out on the academic workforce finds it is heading for tough staffing times.
The report by Universities New Zealand shows the academic industry is struggling to replace leaving
and retiring staff....
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http://goo.gl/KlmRt
Growth is a matter of degree for Navitas

The Australian
February 07 2011
THERE are few sacred cows in business, and education is definitely not one of them.
Having made his fortune from the middle-class aspiration of improvement through higher education,
Navitas co-founder and chief executive Rod Jones is an unsurprising supporter of the pay-to-learn
ethos....
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http://goo.gl/h3oW3
The corruption of ethics in higher education

February 06 2011
Once the dean called me about a grade for the daughter of the rector. The rector was in the hospital.
The dean said that he has suffered enough already and that I should not make him suffer any more, so I
should give his daughter a good grade. - Assistant professor in Kazakhstan. Admissions were a way to
make money. Big money. - Administrator in Georgia.
Universities are commonly thought to be a haven for young adults. No matter how unstable the polity or
how dismal the prospects for the economy, education investments are treated....
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http://goo.gl/eS3mx
Cuts to higher education for flood relief

February 06 2011
Plans by the federal government to cut spending on higher education and allocate nearly A$6 billion
(US$6 billion) to rebuild vast areas of Queensland and Victoria affected by the recent floods have
been condemned by lobby groups.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard (pictured) announced that the government would abolish the Australian
Learning and Teaching Council and the Capital Development Programme....
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http://goo.gl/MpQ9M
Top students gather for conference

Sunshine Coast Daily
February 06 2011
THE University of the Sunshine Coast welcomed some of the greatest minds in the Asia-Pacific region
when it played host to the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Conference.
About 180 high-performing university students from across Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia came
together for networking opportunities, career advice and....
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http://goo.gl/caUz3
Shelving Hunger (with Student Food Banks)

InsideHigherEd.com
February 03 2011
Lots of college students don't eat well, but some don't eat much at all.
A shaky economy with an uncertain job market is the reason more and more students say they’re coming
to the aid of their peers by setting up campus “food pantries,” which are surging in popularity. This
week alone, two pantries are opening, at Iowa State University and the University of Arkansas at
Fayetteville; another opened about four weeks ago at the University of California....
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http://goo.gl/l8SwQ
Reunion for city college

The Wanganui Chronicle
February 04 2011
Droves of nostalgic former Wanganui students from around New Zealand and the world will descend on
the city this month to reminisce and attend City College's centennial reunion.
Although organisers expect a large turnout they are urging local former students to register as soon as
possible for the event, which begins on....
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http://goo.gl/911AI
Borders Group May File for Bankruptcy as Soon as Next Week; Shares Decline
Bloomberg
Borders Group Inc., the second- largest U.S. bookstore chain, may file for protection from creditors as
soon as next week, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The retailer will likely close at least 150 stores, one person said. The people declined to be identified
because the proceedings aren’t public....
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First research exercise a mixed bag

February 02 2011
Depending on who is doing the commenting, the research performance of Australian universities is either
world-ranking or pretty damn miserable. The Excellence in Research for Australia report was released
on Monday to a distinctly mixed reception....
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http://goo.gl/pBcIa
ALTC responds to closure announcement

Australian Learning & Teaching Council
January 2011
The Federal Government will force the Australian Learning and Teaching Council to cease operations at
the end of 2011 leaving a gaping hole in the sector....
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http://goo.gl/PUDdd
Higher education forum in Busselton

The Busselton Mail
February 02 2011
SOME of the State’s leading experts in the field will be at a higher education forum in Busselton on
Friday.
Busselton and Augusta-Margaret River shires will host the forum at Wyndham Vacation Resorts....
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http://goo.gl/9hRBb
UTAS wins top research marks

The Mercury
February 02 2011
THE University of Tasmania was meeting or exceeding world standards in research, a national analysis
of Australian university research has found.
The Excellence in Research for Australia assessment found that research standards in horticultural science,
oceanography, analytical chemistry and visual art and craft at the University of Tasmania....
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http://goo.gl/RfBTw
Areas below world class at greater risk

Gavin Moodie in The Australian
February 02 2011
IT'S sobering to realise that about 58 per cent of broad fields of research (two digit in Excellence in
Research for Australia) and 45 per cent of research disciplines (four digit) may have lost funding if
institutional block research grants had been further concentrated, or confined to....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/zvcWX
Notre Dame makes bid to go public

The Australian
February 02 2011
Students leave the University of Notre Dame campus. Picture: John Grainger Source: The Daily
Telegraph
NOTRE Dame has made a pitch to the federal government to be become a public university.
Under the proposal, Notre Dame would lose its right to have full-fee places, which now comprise about
60 per cent of undergraduate load. But the plan would allow Notre Dame to....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/r2Azh
Push to save university teaching council

The Australian
February 02 2011
THE decision to axe the Australian Learning and Teaching Council has provoked condemnation and a
social web campaign for its reversal.
A better target for government savings would be the My University website, according to Richard
Henry, deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at the University....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/yrsj9
Universities face staff shortages

NZ National Business Review
February 01 2011
University declares 'war for talent'
Universities will soon be facing a staff shortage, while student numbers continue to rise. A study
commissioned by Universities New Zealand says only an immediate, collaborative response by the
tertiary industry can....
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http://goo.gl/GTbci
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 New ANU chief lands on our shores

 Memory scholar Hayne new Vice-Chancellor at Otago

New ANU chief lands on our shores

Cameron Offices set to house UC students

University chief Chubb bows out

Statement regarding TEQSA legislation

Quality assurance bill up for debate

Online study kills uni life

Relief as draft TEQSA legislation released

Students live it up in new ANU lodge

Local young guns hold their own among world's best

There is no assessment of how Australia's newest generation of researchers are performing....

Risk-based approach to regulation

Chubb reflects on friends and influence

Victoria fights to retain state influence

New work rules may prove to be a tough test

Higher education can help balance two-speed economy

ANU, Mongolia agree to share knowledge

Ballarat students deferring university

(International) Student accommodation too costly

Otago University Students' Association pushing for new members now

New students invited to 'spread their wings'

Gillard government avoids showdown on student bill it said was unconstitutional

Bill on student income support unconstitutional: Speaker

Largest ever intake of Indigenous medical students announced

Ballarat police ready for O-week

Youth Allowance scheme is wasted on the uhm, err...

Digital Education Revolution broadly on track

Costly knowledge (for NZ students)

Bid to counter University of Newcastle exodus

Borders Will Close 200 Stores

Wilkie accord to save teaching awards

Ghosts of Orientations past

1992 was truly a golden summer.

Positive actions to ensure continuing support for quality university teaching

Universities Australia CEO Dr Glenn Withers said....

Tiny South Australian university gets big bucks

Speaking the lingo: case of the ERA

Abolishing ALTC is another national disaster

University of Western Australia to expand student lodgings

Universities must brace for ERA funding consequences

When standards falter in favour of profits

University of Southern Queensland plan for free online university

University offers daddy of all parental leave schemes

Gillard faces battle over student bill

Students squeezed in unit scarcity

Landlords 'confiscate' student passports

IT HAS one fridge, 12 single beds and no visitors are allowed.

Doubts about new regulator for TAFE

Newcastle University asking 'too much'

The new ERA of journal ranking

Nationals fighting for rural students

Does university business education still pay?

Australian National University breaks $1b barrier

Call to guarantee tertiary access for every ACT student

Youth Allowance bill irresponsible: Labor

Apprenticeship changes 'not privatisation by stealth'

Assessment finds sciences to be the true wizards of Oz

From where I sit everyone wins in (OER) free-for-all

‘OER university’ to cut cost of degree

Canberra set to be the 'learning capital'

Memory scholar Hayne new Vice-Chancellor at Otago

Australian & NZ Higher Education News in February 2011

Australian & NZ Higher Education News in February 2011

New ANU chief lands on our shores

Memory scholar Hayne new Vice-Chancellor at Otago

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