Articles
Professor Ian O'Connor - Transitioning to the demand-driven system and new regulatory framework
9 August 2011
Professor Ian O'Connor, IRU Chair and Vice-Chancellor Griffith University
Presentation at the 6th Annual University Governance and Regulations Forum
Transitioning to the demand-driven system and new regulatory framework
June 2011 Newsletter - Welcome from the IRU Chair, Professor Ian O'Connor
9 June 2011
Welcome to the first edition of IRU's newsletter. This quarterly publication will provide our members and other interested parties with updates on collaborative activities across our network as well as commentary on government policy and matters relating to Higher Education.
June 2011 Newsletter - Post budget analysis from the Executive Director Mr Conor King
9 June 2011
The political and economic imperatives for a tight 2011 budget removed any prospect for any major announcements of benefit to universities. Instead the 2011 Budget maintained the Government's support for the reform program it outlined in 2009 across teaching and learning and research. It was a budget night where no news was likely to be good news.
Unis share electives to boost disciplines
8 June 2011
A HUBS-AND-SPOKES model to sustain teaching in vulnerable disciplines is under way, with a pilot in advanced year physics electives being shared between Newcastle and James Cook universities.
IRU welcomes the Government's continued commitment
11 May 2011
The Innovative Research Universities welcome the Government's continued commitment to the high quality of the higher education sector as evidenced through this budget.
Background: Halving of HECS discount for upfront payment
10 May 2011
For universities the position is clearest. Universities recieve the full student contribution...
For students the decision to borrow the contribution amount or to pay it directly may be .....
For Government the balance is complex. In cash terms....
Capping charges not places is the best way to ensure students gain higher qualifications
30 March 2011
The assertion that a student demand-driven system must be joined to uncapped student contributions to create an open market is gaining undue acceptance. It is not a logically necessary proposition but an argument that is a means to higher revenue and for some a point of ideology.
Rather than an unsustainable half way step to a market, the
planned mix of uncapped places and capped charges is a viable
system to promote competition based on quality as the best way for
students to gain a suitable higher education.
Those who propound the case for fee deregulation give the
Focus must be on the intent not the marker
1 December 2010
PRODUCTIVITY indicators need to measure actual outcomes when it comes to allocating funding.
THERE is much ado across the sector as universities consider the implications of the performance funding methodology and indicators. We are all quick to point out the limitations of the indicators, the weakness in the methodologies and the flaws in each of the instruments, current and proposed.
Minority Government could lead to improved outcomes, Conor King
22 September 2010
THE federal situation should be looked at as a golden opportunity for positive change.
THE reliance on independent members of parliament and the
Australian Greens is generally interpreted as providing a shallow
base for good policy during the coming term of government
JDs must be Masters Degrees
24 November 2009
SOME universities will have to beef up their juris doctor law programs to comply with a new qualifications framework.
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