Better Universities Renewal Fund (BURF)

2008 Federal Budget Briefing Paper - The Better Universities Renewal Fund and Postgraduate Students

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).

Uni fund to restore services lost in student union overhaul

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.

Questions on BURF and VSU in Senate

Submitted by Nigel Palmer on Thu, 2008-05-15 22:53

Senator STOTT DESPOJA (2.57 pm)—My question

11bn in unis cash bonanza

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".

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