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NMIT and La Trobe create polytec
NMIT News | 13 August 2013 Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) and La Trobe University have announced they are joining together to create Melbourne Polytechnic. La Trobe and NMIT plan...
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HE in TAFE still low but growing
The Age | 16 September 2013 The number of Victorian students enrolling in bachelor degrees at TAFEs instead of universities has more than doubled, from a low base, in the past five years,...
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UC puts campus up for development
The Canberra Times | 13 September 2013 UC campus The University of Canberra (UC) is opening up 40 hectares of its main campus in Belconnen for development in the hope of generating $100 million...
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The Scan | #138 | 20 September 2013
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education and training separated There was...
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Catch Up
TAFEs claim funding cuts will cost jobs and millions The Age | 23 November 2013 Victorian TAFEs expect to lose millions of dollars and the education union is forecasting hundreds of...
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University ‘reforms’ are a looming disaster
The Canberra Times | 23 July 2014 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… The prospect of university fee deregulation, as proposed in the Budget, has divided the university sector. The Group...
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UA position on university reforms dumps students – Parker
University of Canberra | 6 August 2014 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… University of Canberra vice-chancellor Stephen Parker has has affirmed his complete opposition to the...
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The Scan | Edition # 159
8 August 2014 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thought bubble on patents not such...
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The Scan | #163 | 25 September 2014
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vic’s ACFE joins TAFE “in crisis” 24 September...
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Labor’s calculator of doom
The Australian | 31 October 2014 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… As part of its growing campaign against the Abbott government’s deregulation of university fees, Labor has launched...
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Higher education changes a ‘fraud on the electorate’
The Conversation | 2 December 2014 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Stephen Parker, vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra, has been a loud, lone dissenting voice among the...
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How to break the higher education impasse
The Conversation | 9 February 2015 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… The fragile consensus within Universities Australia around support for the government’s fee deregulation package has...
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The Scan #167 16 April 2015
Student debt growing rapidly as compliance declines 16 April 2015 | With student debt ballooning, reform of the FEE-HELP system (HECS) is now a pressing budget issue with the nation’s second...
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Stephen Parker to step down from UC
University of Canberra ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Professor Stephen Parker AO, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Canberra, will step down on 1 July 2016, after 9 years...
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The Scan in 2015
26 December 2015 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… On account of other pressing matters in 2015 published editions of The Scan, with a completely refreshed front page heralded to subscribers by...
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