CAPA in the media

EDUCATION Minister Julia Gillard has admitted her plans to publish information about the performance of every university online will place pressure on vice-chancellors and academic staff.But she insists the My University website, announced yesterday to the nation's university leaders at a Canberra

Australia's lucrative international education market is looking a little threadbare, like an expensive ball gown that hasn't been cared for properly, faded and worn, with loose strings in need of mending.

Both CAPA and the NUS are being headed by students hailing from the University of Melbourne. 

I am what I eat.

By Tammi Jonas

16 December 2009

New Matilda

Australian universities are hotbeds of managerialism, but a lack of oversight is hurting staff and students, writes Tammi Jonas

If it ever even was the case that universities were once "hotbeds of leftists", that time has well and truly passed.

New York Times
Special Report: International Education

As countries seek a route to economic recovery, many are looking to advanced education to give them a competitive edge in global research and development. Others, including the United States, are cutting back, a cost-saving strategy that some economists warn could have serious consequences down the road.
 

POSTGRADUATE and overseas student enrolment behaviour is likely to be driven by new university research rankings that could emerge as soon as late next year, according to university leaders.

As the Australian Research Council prepares for the release of first results from the government's research performance exercise, university leaders said students would increasingly gravitate to highly ranked university schools.
 

 

 

Postgraduate students have an expectation that further study will give them an opportunity to test their skills, gain experience and begin building professional networks in their chosen field.  Postgraduate courses are also an important means of developing a professional specialisation. 

In addition, coursework postgraduate degrees are expected to play an important research training role, and be a mark of higher learning in their own right.