The ACUMA Incorporated higher education news summary for December 2010 is now online, and is available to view or download from a variety of sources.
The monthly ACUMA education news summaries provide links to items dealing with tertiary education issues in Australia and New Zealand, and to items of relevance to both universities and the experience of the university student in Australia or New Zealand.
Tertiary education news items covered in December 2010 include the following selected items:
- Newcastle Uni scores lion's share of Indigenous research funding
- Mine tax plan for uni fees 'unfair', says HECS architect
- Push for probe into Youth Allowance
- Student loan numbers surge
- Australia’s universities in strong financial shape
- Monash University axes staff amid fall in enrolments
- UK crisis sounds a warning to sector
- UK: What students want - chapters, not books
- A test for educational assessment
- Student Unionism Speech To Parliament: Sophie Mirabella MP
- The Bologna Accord: a revolution by degree
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