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IRU leading the way in diversification and offshore education
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) is ready to deliver on the Australian Government’s Australian Strategy for International Education 2021-2030, which focuses on a sustainable and diverse sector. IRU members are already leading the way in international student diversity and offshore…
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New beginnings as IRU welcomes a new member and a new Executive Director
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) welcomes the University of Canberra (UC) to its ranks and names Paul Harris as the new Executive Director. From today, the University of Canberra is a member of the IRU, bringing the network’s membership to…
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Benefits increase a welcome boost for students and universities
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has welcomed confirmation that a $50 per fortnight increase in jobseeker benefits will also apply to students claiming Youth Allowance, ABSTUDY and Austudy. The Prime Minister announced a package of changes to unemployment benefits…
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Don’t leave students out of benefits increase
Students claiming Youth Allowance, ABSTUDY and Austudy must be included in Government plans to permanently raise the value of welfare payments, the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has said. According to media reports today (19 February 2021), the Government is…
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Carolyn Evans appointed new chair of IRU group
Griffith University Vice-Chancellor Professor Carolyn Evans has become the new chair of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group. Professor Evans takes over the position from Murdoch University Vice-Chancellor Professor Eeva Leinonen, who was IRU chair through 2019 and 2020. The…
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IRU celebrates new funding for research into Australian society, history and culture
IRU members are celebrating after winning $3.4 million of new funding for research into Australian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander society, history and culture – 29% of all the money awarded through the program. Education Minister Dan Tehan announced…
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Major step towards a new research funding system
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) congratulates the Government for recognising the need for a major investment in research across 2021 to ensure our research system continues. The Government’s commitment of an additional one billion dollars to the Research Support Program…
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Job-Ready Graduates or not, senators must unfreeze university funding
Federal senators must find a way to unfreeze university funding whether the Job-Ready Graduates Bill passes through Parliament this week or not, the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has said. As the JRG package is currently presented, universities face a…
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Higher education red tape has doubled since 2004
“Quality and accountability” regulations for Government supported higher education providers have more than doubled in volume since 2004 and will grow even further if the Job-Ready Graduates Bill passes through Parliament next week without amendments, the Innovative Research Universities (IRU)…
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Budget 2020: Invest in research, fix JRG
Next week’s Covid-19 recovery Budget should include major investments in university research and sensible changes to the Government’s Job-Ready Graduate (JRG) funding package, the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group says. Ahead of Budget day on 6 October, the IRU is…
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Don’t suffocate international partnerships with red tape
Australian universities’ international research, commercial opportunities and even student foreign exchange trips will be suffocated by red tape if proposals for a register of foreign activity go ahead as planned, the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has said. Under draft…
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The Senate has three choices not two: The Job-Ready Graduates Bill
The Senate has three choices not two. The choice is not between the two bad options of the JRG package as presented or continuation of the frozen system imposed from 2018. The Senate can do what it has done many…
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