Job-Ready Graduates package
On 19 June 2020, Education Minister Dan Tehan MP unveiled a major package of reforms for Australia’s higher education sector.
The package includes significant changes to the way courses are funded and has a major focus on increasing university access and attainment for people living in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia. The Government says the reforms will create “job-ready graduates in the disciplines and regions where they are needed most”.
This page will collate IRU media releases, submissions and other updates related to the Job-Ready Graduates package.
IRU analysis
Overview
IRU’s initial overview and analysis of the JRG package
(15 July 2020)
JRG Senate Inquiry: IRU written submission
(10 Sep 2020)
IRU brief: Universities are required to do more than teach
(14 Sep 2020)
Accountability
Industry partnerships
The needless burden of new accountability measures (Brief for Parliament)
(31 August 2020)
Promoting research through industry partnerships (NPILF)
(28 August 2020)
NPILF consultation – IRU response
(30 October 2020)
Student charges
More paying more: the rise and rise of student charges
(28 Aug 2020)
More paying more: supplementary material
(11 Aug 2020)
At what point does HECS break? (2012)
(Republished 3 August 2020)
Improving the rates: Government funding and student charges
(20 August 2020)
How JRG student charges impact different groups of students
(28 August 2020)
Growth places
Will the growth places be enough?
(22 July 2020)
Growth places
(23 July 2020)
IRU media releases (Job-Ready Graduates Package)
- Expansion for university places major step ahead – but watch out for the unintended consequences, 21 Jun 2020
- IRU calls on Parliament to amend and pass Job-Ready Graduate legislation, 1 Sep 2020
- Higher education red tape has doubled since 2004, 5 Sep 2020
- Making the most of Job-ready graduates, 9 Oct 2020
IRU in the news (Job-Ready Graduates Package)
- Research hit from Australian funding changes, Times Higher Education, 22 Jun 2020
- Cost of IT degrees to drop 20 per cent, ACS Information Age, 23 Jun 2020
- Nation’s largest universities say Dan Tehan’s reforms could cut their funding by stealth, The Australian, 18 August 2020
- Australian universities call on government to reduce proposed fee increases and increase number of places, Guardian Australia, 18 August 2020
- Unis demand government retreat on fee hikes and student failure crackdown, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 August 2020
- Senate crossbenchers join push to send Coalition’s uni funding bill to inquiry, Guardian Australia, 1 September 2020
- Australian legislation: prospects of inquiry rise despite knockback, Times Higher Education, 1 September 2020
- University funding overhaul forced to Senate inquiry, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 September 2020
- Graduates bill threatens research funding and divides universities, Australian Financial Review, 21 September 2020
