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Using Government programs to support regional development and decentralisation
Regional development and decentralisation will be strengthened through Government programs ensuring an intentional national distribution of resources and services. The creation of the next stage of national research infrastructure is a lead case where this approach should apply. The IRU…
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Protecting the Education Investment Fund (EIF)
IRU Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into the Medicare Levy Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017 and 10 related bills Key recommendation to the Committee The IRU strongly opposes the abolition of the Education…
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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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In support of national strategy: IRU response to the University Precincts Issues Paper
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) supports the development of a national universities precincts' strategy that encourages local level stimulation of existing and new businesses through better industry-research collaboration. The paper sets out the broad concept of a ‘precinct’, rightly keeping…
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Universities are not rolling in gold: Average funding per student and other funding facts
The Government case that universities can sustain further reductions in revenue rests on false assertions about the financial robustness of universities and over egged claims about the value of Government funding over the past decade and its additional expenditure over…
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Student Success: a call for authentic measures and support for collaboration.
The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) welcomes the informed perspectives this discussion paper adds to the discussions on student success in higher education and current metrics. IRU members echo statements that the reported “crisis of attrition” is an exaggerated response, yet…
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Possible key elements of the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP): IRU response
The IRU supports the Government’s proposed changes to the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP).
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Students should not pay more for less: The IRU submission on the Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
Part One: Overview The IRU opposes the Government’s Higher Education Package whose fundamental outcome would be to lessen universities’ capacities to educate the students they enrol and undertake research. The package will harm education and research outcomes through: an ‘efficiency…
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