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Are universities over-reliant on China?
The IRU has published a new briefing assessing the often-used claim that Australian universities are overly reliant on Chinese international students as a revenue stream. "In 2019, 133,000 Chinese international students studied at universities in Australia, making up 13% of…
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Are Australia’s universities over-reliant on China?
China is undoubtedly an important market for international education. However, IRU analysis shows that many industries considered essential to our economy depend on China at a much higher rate than education.
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Don’t let research be another victim of COVID
The IRU's Executive Director Conor King has published a comment article about the risks to Australian research funding due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In it, Mr King points out that, even though universities are at the forefront of efforts to…
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Don’t let university research be another victim of COVID
University researchers are playing a major role in Australia’s COVID-19 recovery. But with universities facing a major reduction in revenue in 2020, the longer-term future of Australian research appears uncertain.
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Year 12 outcomes and university selection under COVID
The IRU has published a short paper on the impact of COVID-19 on Year 12 school outcomes and the challenges this creates for university selection of the 2020 school leaver cohort.
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What do final school results really tell us?
The following article by IRU Executive Director Conor King has been published as a comment piece by Education Review. Read the original article With the recent release of VCE results, parents across Victoria have been eagerly hoping to find out…
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Commentary: Non-medical research loses again
IRU's Executive Director Conor King has a comment piece in the Higher Education section of today's edition of The Australian, reflecting on six years of Coalition government budgets. The full published text of the article is below - or you…
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Impact of the Demand Driven System 2009 to 2017
It is ten years since the demand driven system for funding university places was announced. The Government wanted to ensure that all Australians had the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills in the fields that drive them, as the basis for productive contribution to Australia’s future. To mark the tenth anniversary of demand driven funding, the IRU has published a report analysing the system's key achievements.
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The take up of tertiary education
The IRU recently published a discussion paper, Towards a tertiary future, outlining our vision for tertiary education in Australia. A supplemental paper has now been published by the IRU, digging further into the data round applications, acceptance and completions. This includes breakdowns by state, gender, socioeconomic group and metro/non-metro areas.
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Towards a Tertiary Future discussion paper
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) has published its contribution to the tertiary debate in a discussion paper titled 'Towards a Tertiary Future' (published 21 November 2018). In it, the IRU makes the case for a coherent tertiary education system that ensures each person has the opportunity and incentive to get the vocational and higher education qualifications, skills and knowledge to which they aspire.
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IRU Contribution to Higher Education and Research in Regional Australia
The IRU’s regional presence is strong within the health sciences, teaching 26% of the nation’s health students who are taught from regional based campuses. We teach roughly similar proportions of the nation’s health students in regional based campuses at the doctoral-level (26%), postgraduate coursework (31%) and bachelor-level (25%).
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A Dodgy Chart Does Not a Good Case Make
The Report of the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee into the Government’s higher education package sheds little new light but it does include a notably dodgy chart that undermines, not supports, the Minister’s rhetoric about higher education funding growing…
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