The stage is set for a series of important reforms in higher education, with a range of reports due between now and the end of the year.
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has published a summary of important developments for postgraduate students in an Issues Paper released today.
The issues paper is available via the link below:
The stage is set for a series of important reforms in higher education, with a range of reports due between now and the end of the year.
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has published a summary of important developments for postgraduate students in an Issues Paper released today.
[From the DEEWR website]
The Higher Education Endowment Fund will provide funding to Australian higher education institutions for capital expenditure and research facilities. From 2009, the HEEF program will become part of the Education Investment Fund (EIF) announced in the 2008-09 Budget.
More information on the EIF can be found on the EIF page.
2009 Funding Round
The Government is providing $500 million in 2007-08 for higher education institutions to undertake capital projects to support improved teaching and learning, research and students' overall higher education experience. Priority areas will be information and communications technology, laboratories, libraries and student study spaces, teaching spaces and student amenities (Higher Education 2020 Newsletter, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace relations (DEEWR), Issue 2, May 2008).
THE Government wants the $500 million one-off Renewal Fund for Universities to be used to finance services stopped by the Howard administration's Voluntary Student Unionism laws.
Youth Minister Kate Ellis said the money was allocated to universities and could be directed to IT, library, laboratory, places of study and "student amenity projects at their discretion".
"Student organisations may choose to work with universities to encourage funding for amenities that have been run down as a consequence of VSU," she said.
UNIVERSITIES are among the few winners in last night's budget, with Education Minister Julia Gillard announcing an immediate injection into the system of $500million.
The one-off Renewal Fund is intended to help universities "rebuild their campus infrastructure after 11 years of Howard government neglect".
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has
responded positively to measures announced today in the 2008-2009 Federal
Budget, however a number of missed opportunities have marred an otherwise
auspicious start on the road to an education revolution.
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) welcomes the release of The Australian University Student Finances 2006 final report, and supports the call on the part of Universities Australia for practical changes to student income support.
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) is the peak body representing Australia's 264,000 postgraduate students. This submission focuses on the sections of the Bill of most relevance to postgraduate students.
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) welcomes announcements in the 2007-2008 Federal Budget that recognise some targeted areas of student need, particularly in the case of postgraduates, and hopes that these set the foundation for improvements in access to student income support and broader equity measures in the future.
"We welcome the will on the part of the Federal Government to at least recognise that there are in fact areas of genuine student need, and take steps to begin to address them" CAPA President, Nigel Palmer said.
