Department of Education, Employement and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (Formerly DEST)

Includes previous Commonwealth Education departments

Base Funding Review “in right direction”, but postgraduates lose out

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) welcomed today’s release of the Base Funding Review led by Professor Lomax-Smith. “The twenty-nine recommendations put forward are predominantly sound and cover a breadth of issues,” said National President John Nowakowski. “Ultimately, the Review shows that whilst the Government has been moving in the right direction, there’s still a lot more funding needed to adequately support studies nationally.”

Salad Days In Higher Education Spending?

Sure, Gillard is spending more on higher education than Howard did – but is it enough? An 'unwavering commitment' to education needs to be matched by sustainable funding, writes John Nowakowski

The Recommended RQF

On the 15th of November 2006, the Minister for Education, Science and Training announced that the RQF would go ahead. The Minister also endorsed the RQF model recommended by the Development Advisory Group (DAG). Below is a summary of key recommendations from the approved model. Included also are some conclusions on what this might mean for postgraduate students.

For further detailed discussion and background on issues pertaining to the RQF, please refer to the CAPA submissions and briefings.

The complete briefing paper is available in the PDF below:

Response to recommendations of the Evaluation of the General Skilled Migration Categories Report

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) is the national peak body representing Australia's 257,700 postgraduate students. These students are engaged in both coursework and research programs and include over 84,600 international students.

CAPA welcomes the invitation to respond to the recommendations in the Evaluation of the General Skilled Migration Categories report by Dr Bob Birrell, Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne and Professor Sue Richardson.

Response to the RQF Development Advisory Group Guiding Principles

Thank you for the opportunity to provide an initial response to the RQF Guiding Principles. The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) is the national peak body of postgraduate student organisations representing Australia's 257,700 postgraduate students, including 47,300 research students. These students study in all disciplines and are frequently engaged in academic employment.

Feedback on the draft Commercialisation Training Scheme (CTS) Guidelines and Conditions of Grant

General comments:

Many of our initial concerns arising from the Issues Paper have been taken into account. In particular we are very pleased to note that the CTS is now available for part-time students, and for those not in receipt of an APA. The
breadth of the training has also improved. We remain concerned about how distance education students may be catered for.

Comments on specific items in the draft guidelines:

8.90.1 and 8.95

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