CAPA Media Releases
CAPA issues regular media releases on education policy. CAPA's monitoring of the higher education sector ensures it is in a position to quickly provide a media response on policy initiatives by government that affect postgraduate students. CAPA ensures that the postgraduate student perspective is known and lobbies the State and Federal governments accordingly. Providing media releases is an effective way of highlighting the views and concerns of postgraduate students to the broadest audience.
Higher Education Report Card for the 2007 Federal Election
A report card on the higher education policies of the Coalition and Labor parties released by university staff and students on Tuesday has failed the Howard Government for its record on universities.
The report card, prepared by National Tertiary Education Union, the National Union of Students and the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations, awarded Labor a pass on the basis of the well targeted but limited commitments announced during the campaign and its stated commitment to build on these in office.
CAPA Welcomes Greens’ Vision for Higher Ed
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has welcomed higher education policy announcements issued today by The Greens. “Taking action on Indigenous participation, a focus on university communities (fixing VSU) and the plight of casually employed teaching and research staff are highlights of The Greens’ Higher Education policy released today” CAPA President, Nigel Palmer said.
CAPA welcomes the long term vision found in The Greens Higher Education Policy. Other significant policy statements outlined by The Greens today include:
Postgrads and Mid-Career Researchers Top Agenda in ALP Launch
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has applauded higher education policy announcements by the ALP today. “The higher education sector needs a long term vision to reverse 11 years of neglect. All of the opposition parties have now made pubic investment in education a priority. The ALP have confirmed the link between education, equity, opportunity and long term prosperity in Australia” CAPA President, Nigel Palmer said.
Research Students Key to Future
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has welcomed calls by both the Group of Eight Universities (Go8) and the Australian Technology Network (ATN) to boost the number of domestic PhD places, increase the number of and rates for research stipends, and provide better support and opportunities for postgraduates and early career researchers.
VSU Impact Risks Lasting Legacy
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) welcomes the VSU Impact Study released by Australian University Sport (AUS) and the Australasian Campus Union Managers’ Association (ACUMA).
Election 2007: Door wide open for reform in higher ed
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Association welcomes the Australian Democrats’ higher education policy, and their continued commitment to a higher education sector that is accessible, affordable and adequately funded.
Women Graduates Still Left Behind
The release of the Postgraduate Destinations 2006 report today by Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) highlights a discrepancy that is true of women in the workforce across the board. The OECD report Education at a Glance, also published this week, points out that women in OECD countries earn between 50% and 80% of what their male counterparts take home even with similar levels of educational attainment.
VSU One Year On
A new report by the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has established that, one year after implementation, voluntary student unionism (VSU) has resulted in a critical diminution of service delivery and significant loss of staff and representative capacity in postgraduate student organisations across university campuses.
Student Income Support Reform Urgently Needed
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.
No Quick Fix On VSU
In a statement today, Nigel Palmer, National President of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), sought to address some mis-conceptions following from recent media reports regarding VSU.
"I think it's naive to suggest that it could be possible to come up with some kind of 'quick fix' for a problem like VSU. VSU is what happens when you ram through legislation on some obscure ideological agenda irrespective of the consequences“ and the consequences have been huge.
