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IRU Response to the Panel’s Research and Development Tax Review
The Review Panel, chaired by Mr Bill Ferris AC (Innovation Australia), Dr Alan Finkel AO (Chief Scientist) and Mr John Fraser (Secretary to the Treasury) was asked to identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and integrity of the programme, including…
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VET Student Loans Bill 2016: Higher education implications
The decision to separate the VET loans away from higher education loans reduces the habitual confusion of VET specific issues into higher education debates. For instance, a significant aspect to the Parliamentary Budget Office’s exaggerated assessment of the long term…
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IRU submission: 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap
High quality and accessible Research Infrastructure: IRU submission to 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap To maximise its investment in Australia’s research system, the government needs to commit to long term investment in research infrastructure that is accessible to all researchers and…
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Improving equity in higher education participation – IRU response to HEPP evaluation
Without a constructive Government response to the evaluation, the next round of HEPPP cuts risks undermining a program critical for educating all students well. It is essential that the long-term program, sustains the incentive to enrol all suitable students regardless…
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Structural Review of NHMRC’s Grant Program: IRU Submission
The restructure of Australia’s health and medical research grants must retain the focus on supporting optimal research leading to the best possible health and medical outcomes for all Australians . The individual submissions of IRU member universities provide a detailed…
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TEQSA’s proposed External Reporting program: IRU Submission
The IRU supports the intention of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) to use its data sets to provide: better information about its actions; and evidence of broad trends about how higher education providers are achieving or not…
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Driving Innovation, Fairness and Excellence in Australian Higher Education
The experience of the past three years, 2013 to 2016, shows the great difficulty for implementing major changes to higher education funding and regulation as a single package. The need for change is driven by the impact of making university…
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Breaking the impasse – an effective process to assess Engagement and Impact: IRU Submission
The strong support for measuring the value of university research for end-users has been hindered by the lack of a viable way to do so. Discussion is caught between the difficulty of ascribing meaning to an array of data sets,…
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