ACUMA Incorporated, Australasia's peak representative body for staff in the higher education campus services sector, has published the March 2011 higher education news summary.
Focussing on issues and news relevant to higher education generally in Australia and New Zealand and, where applicable, impacting on campus service organisations, ACUMA's monthly education news summaries provide a comprehensive listing of news affecting the university and tertiary-level student experience.
Higher education news reported in March 2011 included:
- (New Zealand) Student loan rebuild plan 'offensive'
- Southern Cross University institution left to wither
- Students need more help, says uni chief
- Business backs deregulation of university student fees
- Pay lecturers according to performance, report urges
- Legislation introduced to establish the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
- Universities Australia Good Practice Guidelines for Enhancing Student Safety
- Gillard Government delivers national reform to Australia’s Vocational Education and Training sector
- Partnership helps close the gap for Indigenous students
- TEQSA bill unlikely to hand universities self-accreditation
- Uni students get a free ride for too long with their HECS debt
- Structural Adjustment Fund gives universities an edge
- Road to success, first Indigenous Australian Rhodes Scholarship winner
To view the March 2011 ACUMA Incorporated higher education news summary online, or to download the education news collection in pdf format, please choose from the links below:
Sources are fully acknowledged in all summaries, with content provided via article title, introductory text and hyperlink only.
