Higher education news, July 2010 summary - Australia, New Zealand

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ACUMA Incorporated: Higher education news summary for July 2010 - Australia & New Zealand

Coalition on education Students fear dramatic increase in course debts Abbott vies for disability vote Postgrads release election wishlist Uni push to slash undergraduates, allow more foreign students Asia-born population matching local born Global students of future to get degree of flexibility The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education Old enough to vote? You're on a roll Google's student election ignores reality: McKay Google jump on election 2010 Air safety 'at risk from uni cheats' Uni cheat scandal poses plane risk $11b student loan debt a disaster, says Key University Of Canterbury Launches New Online Scholarships Service Dunedin school woos Chinese students As college text prices soar, students get a rental option Standards must be the foundation Both sides get sums wrong in battle over education costs Sector learns to handle change Liberals to reintroduce full-fee uni places Australia Seeks to Jettison Its Colleges' Relaxed Image Election focus turns to education Labor vows to revive student union fees HECS gives everyone a fair go: Gillard Probe called into soaring student fees Government looking at extra fees at tertiary institutions Student body slams new rules on immigration Academic Outcomes of Study Abroad Need for new system must end in tiers College orientation is emphasized more than ever even involving some parents Student says bullied into paying fees What happened to studying? What the Alumni Read (or Ignore) Victoria University Wins Australasian Debating Champs More students use high-tech gadgets to cheat on exams Volunteering Experts Advise Government on Strategy Extra $118m handed over as more students struggle Uni Games mourns killed student To stop cheats, colleges learn their trickery Unis spot opportunities in visa changes Reforms would shore up research Accounting counts cost of success University students more likely to be hit by depression Push for degree-level TAFEs Student disengagement: global comparisons Massey University to cut 53 jobs AACA National Campus Band Competition / National Campus Film Festival / National Campus Art

Prize / National Campus DJ Competition launched
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Coalition on education

The Sydney Morning HeraldJuly 31 2010

Parents would be helped to make the choice to send disabled children to private schools under aCoalition plan for a $20,000 education card that follows each student, bypassing state educationdepartments.

Full article:http://bit.ly/dyOVjO

Students fear dramatic increase in course debts


STUDENT debt loads will rise dramatically under a University of Sydney proposal to increase thenumbers of postgraduate places at the expense of undergraduates, a leading student advocate says.

Elly Howse, the University of Sydney student president, said the proposed changes would have adetrimental long-term effect across higher education and the.

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Abbott vies for disability vote


Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has sought to trump Labor on the issue of disabilities, pledging $314million to help students with a disability and their families.

Previously politically overlooked, disability has now earned prominence as an election issue, with MrAbbott's announcement coming a day after Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement of $182 millionof measures, including.

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Postgrads release election wishlist

AAP via The Sydney Morning Herald

July 29 2010

Postgraduate students want the next federal government to give them better income support, moretravel concessions and improved campus services, their peak body says.

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations released its election wish list on Thursday.

Full article:http://bit.ly/aWpFse

Uni push to slash undergraduates, allow more foreign students

The Sydney Morning Herald

July 30 2010
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The University of Sydney is considering cutting more than 6000 undergraduate places and insteadrecruiting more postgraduate and international students, in a radical overhaul of its operations.

The shake-up aims to improve the university's finances and lift its international research reputation, withthe impact likely to be felt across the Australian higher education sector.

Full article:http://bit.ly/d4kMCQ

Asia-born population matching local born

The AgeJuly 30 2010

Australia's Asia-born population was growing almost as fast as the Australian-born population in theyear before the federal government cracked down on immigration rorts, new figures show.

The Bureau of Statistics' annual migration estimates show Australia's migrant population rose by morethan a million in the five years to 2009, topping the.

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Global students of future to get degree of flexibility

The Independent, IrelandJuly 30 2010

THEY say university broadens the mind, but for third-level students of the future, it will be a gateway toa whole new world of learning.

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The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education

The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education provides the opportunity to disseminateresearch and practice for enhancing the first year in higher education.

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Old enough to vote? You're on a roll


The Monday after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that the federal election would be held onAugust 21, thousands of Australians queued at Australian Electoral Commission offices to enrol to vote.More than 200,000 eligible Victorians are not enrolled, including about half of all 18-year-olds and athird of 19-year-olds.

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Google's student election ignores reality: McKay
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Students given a virtual vote

Google are inviting all 15-17 year old school students across Australia to have their say in a simulatedfederal election between 9 - 12 August.

Leading social researcher Hugh McKay says Google's mock election for 15- to 17-year-old studentsacross Australia is "a very strange idea" and ignores the fact that.

Full article:http://bit.ly/dlLc5T

Google jump on election 2010

MarketingMag.com.auJuly 29 2010

Google has partnered with a group of Australian politicians to launch Student Voice, a simulated onlineelection for young Australians.

Full article:http://bit.ly/9yOxcy

Air safety 'at risk from uni cheats'

The AustralianJuly 30 2010

RMIT University has been rocked by a cheating scandal in aeronautical engineering, exposed byVictoria's Ombudsman.

Full article:http://bit.ly/9jVeA5

Uni cheat scandal poses plane risk

AAP via The Sydney Morning HeraldJuly 29 2010

An aeronautical engineering teacher at a prominent Melbourne University assisted three students tocheat, endangering air passengers, the ombudsman has found.

Full article:http://bit.ly/bQyhsA

$11b student loan debt a disaster, says Key

Stuff.co.nzJuly 28 2010

Fresh calls have been made for interest to be reintroduced on student loans after Prime Minister JohnKey said student debt was a disaster economically.

"If you're an investment banker not that I am these days you'd say it's a disaster of a loan book," he

told students at Victoria University's Weir House yesterday.
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University Of Canterbury Launches New Online Scholarships Service

Voxy, New ZealandJuly 29 2010

Searching for scholarship support to study at the University of Canterbury has just got a whole loteasier.

The University has launched a new online service for students which will help them search through themore than $13.5 million worth of scholarships and prize funding available annually and make it easierfor them to find a suitable scholarship to.

Full article:

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Dunedin school woos Chinese students

TVNZJuly 28 2010

A deal with an Otago school which will see pupils from China going to high school in Dunedin also clearsthe way for them to go to university.

For 100 students from northern China, Bayfield High School will soon be home and Hengshui Highdelegates said they have been impressed with.

Full article:http://bit.ly/azHE1I

As college text prices soar, students get a rental option

Boston.comJuly 26 2010

College students will have new, cheaper alternatives this fall to shelling out hundreds of dollars eachsemester for textbooks they may never use again.

In an effort to curb escalating book prices amid sky-high college costs, bookstores at more than a dozencampuses across the state and hundreds more around the country will begin renting textbooks at.

Full article:http://bit.ly/cJeNr8

Standards must be the foundation


ARE different institutional capacities worth identifying and preserving?

Reform is afoot in tertiary education. Greater access to diplomas and degrees for the Australian peopleis proposed. There is significant federal investment in the operations and infrastructure of publicinstitutions under way. There is talk of government funding tied to performance in education and

research. A new system for assessing research quality, Excellence in Research for Australia, is being
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implemented. Reforms to the standards required for educational institutions teaching internationalstudents are.

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Both sides get sums wrong in battle over education costs


WHEN the first major brawl over costings in this election campaign broke out, the spin of the majorparties glossed over an ugly truth.

Tony Abbott's $760 million plan to expand the education rebate to include private school fees wascosted on the basis of a mistake. That mistake was made by Julia Gillard eight days earlier, when she

overestimated by 600,000 the number of.

Full article:http://bit.ly/cTCXvy

Sector learns to handle change


New ideas are only as good as their implementation

JULIA Gillard became education minister with a simple mantra, that demography is not destiny. Herambition was to change that for the large proportion of students who leave school with poor skills inliteracy and numeracy, limiting their options for higher education and training or a job.

Full article:http://bit.ly/cWhRMv

Liberals to reintroduce full-fee uni places


A COALITION government would overturn Labor's ban on full fees for Australian undergraduates,clearing the way for universities to offer places for a price to students who missed out on publiclysubsidised places on academic merit.

Full article:http://bit.ly/bbeYrN

Australia Seeks to Jettison Its Colleges' Relaxed Image

The Chronicle of Higher EducationJuly 22 2010

Australia is trying to improve its academic image to attract a new crop of students to its shores.

For years the island nation has marketed itself as a sun-kissed destination for foreign students,promoting its relaxed lifestyle as much as opportunities to study. But now it is revamping that approach

and seeking to emphasize a more intellectual image.
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Election focus turns to education

ABC NewsJuly 21 2010

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott have targeted education spending in announcements made on thecampaign trail in marginal seats today.

In his first Coalition spending pledge of the campaign, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott promised to use$750 million to increase and expand the Education Tax Rebate.

Full article:http://bit.ly/aka3WU

Labor vows to revive student union fees

The AgeJuly 22 2010

FEDERAL Education Minister Simon Crean has promised a re-elected Labor government would try againto change the law to allow universities to charge students compulsory fees to pay for sporting facilities,health clinics and other non-academic amenities.

Full article:http://bit.ly/9rOpib

HECS gives everyone a fair go: Gillard


JULIA Gillard says she has no plans to change the nation's Higher Education Contribution Scheme.

But the Prime Minister believes Labor's first term in office has made it easier for people from poorbackgrounds to go to university.

Full article:http://bit.ly/9W9jty

Probe called into soaring student feesThe New Zealand HeraldJuly 15 2010

The Government is to probe whether skyrocketing non-academic fees for university and polytechstudents are being used to dodge its restrictions on course fee increases, Tertiary Education MinisterSteven Joyce said yesterday.

Full article:http://bit.ly/bU1ruH

Government looking at extra fees at tertiary institutions

Guide2.co.nzJuly 14 2010
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Wellington, July 14 NZPA - The Government has signalled a crackdown on tertiary educators who areramping up non-academic levies.

In a speech to tertiary education providers at Victoria University today, Tertiary Education MinisterSteven Joyce said students had written to him complaining about.

Full article:http://bit.ly/bmysDY

Student body slams new rules on immigration


THE head of a new international student body says the government's immigration changes hit student

residency hopes.

The new Council of International Students Australia is also calling for the reform of work restrictions onstudents and increased student accommodation. It also wants NSW and Victoria to finally extend.

Full article:http://bit.ly/buu0TD

Academic Outcomes of Study Abroad

InsideHigherEd.comJuly 13 2010

In 2000, researchers began an ambitious effort to document the academic outcomes of study abroadacross the 35-institution University System of Georgia. Ten years later, theyve found that students whostudy abroad have improved academic performance upon returning to their home campus, highergraduation rates, and improved knowledge of cultural practices and context compared to.

Full article:http://bit.ly/9YMGOQ

Need for new system must end in tiers


UNIVERSITIES should take the initiative to set up polytechnics that are not research-based.

AUSTRALIA needs a new kind of tertiary institution, delivering a curriculum that blends vocational andhigher learning in ways Australian society and its economy will want.

Full article:http://bit.ly/aBPuUZ

College orientation is emphasized more than ever even involving some parents

The Chicago TribuneJuly 12 2010

Schools hope extra attention helps students succeed and avoid problems during the year
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A generation ago, college orientation was a perfunctory affair, lasting little more than a day. The focuswas on registering for classes and buying textbooks. If parents were needed at all, it was primarily fortheir wallets.

Full article:http://bit.ly/caZD6S

Student says bullied into paying fees

One News via TVNZJuly 11 2010

Victoria University student Marie Shepherd, who is studying interior architecture, initially refused tosettle the bill for campus services, but says she was bullied into paying it.

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What happened to studying?

The Boston GlobeJuly 04 2010

You wont hear this from the admissions office, but college students are cracking the books less and less

They come with polished resumes and perfect SAT scores. Their grades are often impeccable. Some eliteuniversities will deny thousands of high school seniors with 4.0 grade point averages in search of anelusive quality that one provost called intellectual vitality. The perception is that todays over-achieving, college-driven kids have it whatever it is. Theyre not just groomed; theyre ready. Theresjust one problem.

Once on campus, the students arent studying.

Full article:http://bit.ly/9PiMff

What the Alumni Read (or Ignore)

InsideHigherEd.comJuly 09 2010

The days when alumni eagerly turned to "class notes" sections of alumni magazines to find out abouttheir old friends seem quaint in the era of Facebook. So the question for alumni magazines becomes:

How do they stay relevant?

Full article:http://bit.ly/90EeWS

Victoria University Wins Australasian Debating Champs

Voxy.co.nzJuly 09 2010

A team from Victoria University of Wellington has taken out top honours in the world's second largestuniversity debating tournament.
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The team of three students won the 2010 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships bydefeating Auckland University in the Grand Final on Wednesday night in Auckland. One hundred teamsfrom all over the Asia-Pacific region.

Full article:http://bit.ly/bjoyMk

More students use high-tech gadgets to cheat on exams

The Calgary HeraldJuly 08 2010

An investigation found that Grade 12 students cheated on the Alberta Pure Math 30 exam after thestudents received a copy of the test prior to exam day.

Apparently confused by the answer his peer had e-mailed to his BlackBerry, a student asked to be

excused for a washroom break.

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Volunteering Experts Advise Government on Strategy

Media release: Senator the Hon Ursula StephensJuly 08 2010

Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion and the Voluntary Sector Senator Ursula Stephens met withkey leaders from the community at the final meeting of the Volunteering Policy Advisory Group inCanberra today.

The group of diverse representatives across the volunteering community has met five times since itsestablishment in October 2009.

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Extra $118m handed over as more students struggle

The Dominion Post via Stuff.co.nzJuly 07 2010

The Government has had to cough up an extra $118 million after record numbers of cash-strappedstudents asked for financial help.

More than 82,000 students used the Government's student living allowance scheme in 2009, pushingspending to $516 million, a 30 per cent rise.

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Uni Games mourns killed student

ABC NewsJuly 06 2010

The 2010 Eastern University games will today remember a competitor that died after a car accident on

Sunday night.
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The death will be recognised with a minute's silence at all of the Games' events today.

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To stop cheats, colleges learn their trickery

The New York TimesJuly 05 2010

The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the Universityof Central Florida. No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a students speaking intoa hands-free cellphone to an accomplice outside.

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Unis spot opportunities in visa changes

ABC Radio AustraliaJune 06 2010

With uncertainty facing overseas students in some Australian education courses, many are expected totake advantage of opportunities to study in their home country at first before transferring to anidentical course in Australia.

Full article:http://bit.ly/brcNUG

Reforms would shore up research


A SHIFT towards decade-long research grants and joint university-industry appointments head the list ofreforms in the federal government's draft blueprint.

The moves would accompany a longer-term expansion of Australia's $794 million university-basedresearch training scheme recommended by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science andResearch's blueprint as necessary to.

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Accounting counts cost of success


RAPID growth presents daunting challenges for the popular academic discipline.

ACCOUNTING academics cannot cope with their popularity and the number of students must drop ifteaching and research are to continue in universities.

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University students more likely to be hit by depression


UNIVERSITY students are four times more likely to be anxious and depressed than other people theirage, a study of almost 1000 students has found.

The research found that 48 per cent of participating students from the medicine, law, mechanicalengineering and psychology faculties at the University of Adelaide showed significant levels.

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Push for degree-level TAFEs

The Australian

June 30 2010

TAFE Directors Australia is proposing a new type of higher education institution between universities andTAFEs.

This initiative is part of the push to win commonwealth funding for degrees in the post-2012 uncappedsystem.

A blueprint for the tertiary education sector will be discussed by the TDA board in Brisbane tomorrow. Itincludes protocols for a new category of non-university institution that would offer degrees at bachelorand masters level in.

Full article:http://bit.ly/a8XYxy

Student disengagement: global comparisons

University World NewsJuly 04 2010

Jim Ct

A common reaction to reports of student disengagement is that we all should get used to widespreaddisengagement because nothing better should be expected from a mass university system. A variety ofexcuses are made for students who are 'too busy' to put full effort into their studies. One way toapproach this 'inevitability question' is to ask whether the levels of student disengagement observed.

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Massey University to cut 53 jobs

The New Zealand Herald SunJuly 01 2010

Massey University says government funding cuts are behind a proposal to axe more than 50 jobs fromits three campuses.

Under the plan the university would replace 120 current non-academic roles with 67 new positions at itscampuses in

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Australasian Association of Campus Activities (AACA): 2010 national student competitions

National Campus Band Competition launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncbcNational Campus Film Festival launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncffNational Campus Art Prize launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncapNational Campus DJ Competition launched : http://www.aaca.net.au/ncdjc

ACUMA Incorporated: Items in the press - monthly round-ups

- Higher education news- International issues in education, and items affecting international students- Technology developments of relevance to campus services

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