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Australia outpaced in world uni rankings

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Original article by Tim Dodd
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 2-Oct-14

The Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of the world’s universities for 2014 has been issued, with Australian Education Minister Christopher Pyne noting that Asian rivals of local tertiary institutions are gaining more places more quickly. THE editor Phil Baty, however, argues that the Government’s planned full deregulation of course fees may lift only the elite Group of Eight providers. Australian universities occupy eight places in the top 200, with the University of Melbourne rated highest at 33

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TSL EDUCATION LIMITED, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EDUCATION, THE GROUP OF EIGHT LIMITED, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, MONASH UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Overseas students to miss out on internships

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Original article by Harriet Alexander
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 2-Oct-14

Many overseas medical students will not gain internships in 2015. An audit predicts that 240 students will not be offered a position on graduation. These will all be international students as places are offered to domestic students first. The Australian Medical Students’ Association estimates that about 160 graduates will be forced to go overseas. A shortage of 2,700 doctors is forecast by 2025

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THE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION LIMITED, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, HEALTH WORKFORCE AUSTRALIA, MEDICAL DEANS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND INCORPORATED

$100k fees for prestige degrees are widely distorted: Sydney Uni

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Original article by Matthew Knott
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 2 : 26-Sep-14

The University of Sydney does not intend to introduce large fees if the higher education funding system is deregulated. Even degrees such as law and business will continue to cost less than $A100,000. The university stated in a submission to a Senate inquiry into the higher education fee system that cuts to government funding necessitate a rise in fees of 24 per cent

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UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, PALMER UNITED PARTY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Education growing as place for jobs

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Original article by Shane Wright
The West Australian – Page: 20 : 19-Sep-14

The Australian employment market is changing. In the three months to August 2014, for the first time there were more people employed in education and training than manufacturing. In Western Australia (WA), education surpassed manufacturing nearly three years before. In WA, there were fewer than 96,000 people directly employed in mining, the lowest number since mid-2011. There were 152,000 retail workers, 150,000 healthcare workers and over 34,000 in the real estate sector

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AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS, COMMONWEALTH SECURITIES LIMITED, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA

Study ‘not up to the job’ of readying Aussies for work

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Original article by Natasha Bita
The Australian – Page: 5 : 8-Sep-14

Think Education Group has issued the results of new polling commissioned from Pureprofile. They show that among 18-to-35-year-olds fewer than two thirds believe that the education they received has given them the skills they need in their jobs. Among vocational training graduates the ratio is even lower, at just 57%. Think CEO Linda Brown says more needs to be done to eliminate the gap between the education system and the "real world". Another finding is that men tend to choose their field of study based on the salary they want to earn, while women "follow their passion"

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THINK: EDUCATION GROUP PTY LTD, PUREPROFILE PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN SKILLS QUALITY AUTHORITY, AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION UNION

Pyne steps up uni reform bid

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Original article by Mark Kenny
The Age – Page: 9 : 29-Aug-14

Australian Education Minister Christopher Pyne is trying to gain support for his higher education reforms. He introduced the bill to Parliament on 28 August 2014. He said that the reforms to structural funding must be enacted now or the system will decline. Pyne called on the crossbench senators to support the legislation

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EDUCATION, PALMER UNITED PARTY, UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA LIMITED

UWA given thumbs down for teaching

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Original article by Bethany Hiatt
The West Australian – Page: 11 : 14-Aug-14

The 2014 edition of the "Good Universities Guide" rates the University of Western Australia (UWA) poorly in terms of the quality of teaching. The university has received one star on a five-star rating scale, while the state’s Edith Cowan University and Notre Dame University both received top ratings for the quality of their teaching. However, UWA was given five-star ratings on several measures

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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY, NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, MURDOCH UNIVERSITY

Academics plead to save course

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Original article by Ben Potter
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 7-Aug-14

Concern has been expressed about La Trobe University’s plan to downgrade the status of economics in its curriculum. The university proposes to abolish its stand-alone economics degree and integrate it into the Bachelor of Commerce, while academic staff will be slashed. Economics professors at rival universities are among those who want La Trobe to back down. Falling demand for economics courses has prompted the decision

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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, THE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT LIMITED, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, DELOITTE ACCESS ECONOMICS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN FAIR PAY COMMISSION, MONASH UNIVERSITY, ECONOMICS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA, THE GROUP OF EIGHT LIMITED, AUSTRALIA POST, LINFOX PTY LTD, ACTU, INCITEC PIVOT LIMITED – ASX IPL, WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION – ASX WBC, JC FLOWERS AND COMPANY LLC

Graduates face worst job market in 20 years

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Original article by Tim Dodd, Edmund Tadros
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 7 : 30-Jul-14

Data from Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) highlights the challenging employment market for new university graduates. A survey by GCA has found that just 71.3 per cent of bachelor degree graduates had jobs four months after leaving university in 2013, compared with 76.1 per cent in 2012. The decline was particularly acute among law, accounting and civil engineering graduates

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GRADUATE CAREERS AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Navitas marked down after uni setback

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Original article by Julie Hare
The Australian – Page: 19 : 29-Jul-14

Navitas has announced a 2013-14 full-year net profit drop of 31% to $A51.6m, on revenue of $A878.2m. The earnings per share declined 31% as well, to $A0.137. On 28 July 2014 the stock lost $A0.14 to close at $A4.98. In early July it had fallen steeply from $A7.75 to $A4.68, on news the higher education enrolment services provider had lost its contract with Macquarie University. Navitas CEO Rod Jones says the company predicts improve trading conditions once the Australian Government’s full deregulation of university course fees becomes law

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NAVITAS LIMITED – ASX NVT, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, DEUTSCHE BANK AG, STANDARD AND POOR’S ASX 100 INDEX, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS, CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD, AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY PTY LTD, SAE INSTITUTE PTY LTD