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 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 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.
Senator STOTT DESPOJA (2.57 pm)—My question
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".
