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IRU supports focus on internships for researchers
Innovative Research Universities (IRU) supports the Coalition’s $31.2 million commitment in internships and post-school career advice for women and girls aiming to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The IRU has consistently called for the need…
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National Strategy for International Education sets the directions
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) congratulates the Government on the release of the National Strategy for International Education, with the companion documents supporting long-term engagement with international graduates and setting a roadmap to expand further Australia’s role in meeting demand…
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Research training is about the future
The IRU submission to the review of research training by the Australian Council of the Learned Academies (ACOLA) argues that universities are responding to the need for research students to gain the broad skills and capabilities for their future employment.…
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ESOS amendments go in the right direction
The IRU largely supports the proposed changes to the ESOS legislation, which Christopher Pyne, Minister for Education and Training, released on 7 July 2015 as set out in the exposure drafts: Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill…
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Student equity and income support must be given priority
Innovative Research Universities (IRU) supports Universities Australia in calling on the Australian Parliament to resolve its differences and do the right thing for all current and prospective Australian university students by passing the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income…
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2015 Budget Holding Pattern: The Long Road to Sustainable Development Reform
IRU supports the Government's determination to continue with its plan for major reform of higher education. This requires a major change in approach to develop a package that can gain the needed parliamentary support. This will not be possible for introduction in…
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Not Another Metric
The release of Research Engagement for Australia by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) does not provide the needed balance to the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment to recognise the excellence of university research in…
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Higher Education Infrastructure Working Group (HEIWG): IRU Submission
The evidence from the PhillipsKPA report and the tenor of the IRU’s discussion with the Working Group confirms the considerable diversity across the sector be it in the state of capital infrastructure, degree of universities’ autonomy from the respective state…
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Reducing government funding where higher fees are charged
Following the failure of the Government’s higher education package to pass the Parliament we now need to explore openly options for the future that that would: substantially alter the current settings in a way that could be sustained for a…
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Whence: how do we solve the trilemma?
The farce continues. Universities cannot budget for 2016 and beyond with the level of base government investment and student payments essentially unknowable. Since April 2013 universities have been subject to two budget driven changes neither of which has been implemented.…
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Support reform bill, now without funding cut: IRU Submission
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) call on the Senate to pass the Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014 following the Government’s decision to focus on the important reforms to university funding and student charges it has proposed, without the…
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IRU urges Government to agree the higher education package Mark three with Senators
The IRU calls on the Government to work with Senators on its higher education reform package to agree the changes needed to meet university needs and satisfy Senators’ concerns. The revised Higher Education and Research Reform bill Mark Two, tabled…
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