UOW Higher Education Gateway news archive

• News items arranged by year: 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002

2005

June

• ARC governance arrangements

April

• Strengthening standards in offshore education: a discussion paper
• Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements (HEWRRs)

March

• Building University Diversity
• Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• Voluntary student unionism legislation introduced
• academici: a global virtual network of academics
• A research quality framework: assessing the quality and impact of Australian research
• Building Better Foundations for Higher Education in Australia: A Discussion About Re-aligning Commonwealth-State Responsibilities
• Carrick Institute's competitive grants program open

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2004

December

• Rationalising responsibility for higher education in Australia
• $3 Million for innovation in higher education

November

• Guthrie Review of Nation Protocols - review of the role of universities

June

• AVCC federal election statement
• Boost to Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• New advisory body on international education
• $1.5 million for universities' offshore quality assurance
• Beyond Backing Australia's Ability: AVCC response

May

• ARC-supported research - 1996-2000 citation impact

March

• Australia 'above par with the world' in citation impact
• The National research infrastructure strategic framework: final report of the National Research Infrastructure Taskforce
• Evaluation of knowledge and innovation reforms consultation report
• Review of closer collaboration between universities and major publicly funded research agencies
• Knowledge lost in information: NSF report on digital libraries

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2003

December

• Advancing Australia's Abilities: foundations for the future of research in Australia
• Higher Education Triennium Report
• Future strategic investment fundamental to Australia's research capacity
• $40 million for Science and Research Networks
• "Peer-to-Peer" examines university copyright landscape
• Higher Education Legislation Support Bill - 2003
• Universities to receive $42 million funding boost
• Rewarding Australia's best University teachers

November

• Finalists for $485,000 University Teaching Awards announced
• Hacking Australia's Future: Threats to institutional autonomy, academic freedom and student choice in Australian higher education
• Higher Education Reform Implementation
• Chancellors and AVCC unified on issues of governance
• Guidelines for higher education legislation released

October

• A Review of Australia's National Research Infrastructure
• Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research Centre launched
• Vision Cooperative Research Centre Research Centre launched
• $12 million for managing university information
• Changing research practices in the digital information and communication environment

September

• Full AVCC response - Fairness and Flexibility
• Higher Education Reforms: AVCC Statements, Commentary and more
• AVCC responds to Higher Education Labor Policy
• Abbott's simplification of University workplace reforms misleading
• Workplace relations requirements unworkable
• New workplace relations requirements for universities
• AVCC - response to government concessions
• Higher education reform package enhanced
• Regional boost for University of Wollongong
• Investigation into provision of professional development for university teaching in Australia: a discussion paper

August

• New ARC Centres
• Boosting Australia's Research infrastructure
• Report of the Higher Education Information Infrastructure Implementation Steering Committee
• Issues Paper for Knowledge and Innovation Reforms
• $2.5 million seed funding to grow ARC Research Networks
• National Report on Higher Education in Australia

July

• Labor's Education Policy Paper - Aim Higher
• AVCC welcomes Labor launch of full Higher Education package
• Pledge for additional nursing places welcomed by AVCC
• AVCC welcomes Labor pledge to reduce Maths and Science HECS
• More AVCC media releases
• Discussion paper on enhancing Australia's research collaboration

June

• AVCC Response to higher education reforms in 2003 budget

May

• Projects: Round 2 funding
• Research collaboration review announced
• Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future - Policy Paper
• AVCC Media Releases - BUDGET 2003
  • Government adopts broad thrust of AVCC reform package
  • New taxes a setback for education exports
  • Government visa initiatives a boost to education exports
• Government Media Releases - BUDGET 2003
  • Research funding
  • Funding - Education, Science and Training
  • Science and Innovation
  • Business/industry and universities

April

• Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships (CSIRO)
• Students 2002: selected higher education statistics
• Record numbers at university

March

• $585,000 to strengthen research links with China
• $3.5 million assists science research (ISI Web of Science database)
• Review of teaching and teaching education - Young people, Schools and Innovation
• $100,000 Fellowships for Researchers - Linkage programme
• Linkage - Funding - ARC

February

• Higher education at the crossroads - Issues Papers
• University Resourcing: Australia in an international context
• The Future of Higher Education (UK White Paper)
• Research Support Libraries Group, Final Report
• Vice-Chancellors welcome PM appointment

January

• $90 million for ARC's Centres of Excellence

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2002

December

• A Framework for an Australian Research and Education Network
• Funding for Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) programme announced
• Four National Research Priorities announced

November

• Global Summit of Online Knowledge Networks
• First National Report on Indigenous Education and Training
• Besley new Chair of ARC

October

• Research: Engine Room of the Nation (Labor policy discussion paper)
• ARC 2003 grant results announced
• University Resourcing: Australia in an International Context

September

• Forward from the Crossroads: Pathways to effective and diverse Australian Universities
• National Review of Nursing Education 2002
• Higher Education Review: AVCC Statements

August

• National Research Priorities: Submissions provide a vision for the future
• Varieties of learning: the interface between higher education and vocational education and training
• Research priorities selection committee
• Meeting the challenges: the governance and management of universities
• Achieving equitable and appropriate outcomes: indigenous australians in higher education

July

• Varieties of excellence: diversity, specialisation and regional engagment
• Call to nominate national research priorities
• Australia's most prestigious research fellowships - new awards
• Ministerial Council recognises role of regional universities in review of higher education
• WUPA Submission to 'Higher Education at the Crossroads'
• List of Submissions to Higher Education Review Consultation Process
• Inquiry into the Role of Libraries in the Online Environment
• Setting Firm Foundations: Financing Australian higher education
• UOW Strategic Plan 2002-2005

June

• Positioning Australia's Universities for 2020 - An AVCC Policy Statement
• AVCC releases vision for 2020
• Striving for quality: learning, teaching and scholarship

May

• Developing National Research Priorities: An Issues Paper
• National Research Priorities: Universities ready for the next step
• Research Issues Paper Released

April

• Higher education at the crossroads: an overview paper

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