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Alison Hardwick: Faculty Dean 01 Sep 2010 12:43:56pm
It is now clear that the government need to think more about rural Australia. We have much to contribute in the bush, so I recommend that the government look broadly and comprehansively at how education is best delivered in these areas. This requires a considered approach, nothing slap dash!
I also suggest that rural universities be given more student placements, with a government empahasis on 'rural population retention', which in part should consider 'employment opportuities' for rural university graduates.
Thank UniJobs for the opportunity to voice my opinion.
I hope that we have an elected government soon so our ideas cn be listened to!
Jillian Rogers: Senior Lecturer 30 Aug 2010 10:34:54am
Increase junior wages for academics 10-15% so an academic career is more inviting for new graduates.
David Dwyer: Faculty Dean 26 Aug 2010 05:36:09pm
Create more places in regional universities of Australia. This will grow regional townships as well as make a stronger case for more health and education resources in rural areas. There is also more opportunity for regional areas to retain population.
Veronica Ruiz: Building Project manager 25 Aug 2010 09:14:32pm
Most Universities claim to have an equal oportunity policy for positions advertised. It is no so for non-academic or contract positions in general regardless of qualifications. The policy has the intention of fairness and transparency -in paper- but overlooks a method to guarantee the best qualified for managerial positions.Continuous training has to be demonstrated by staff applying for promotion.Public funded programs have to be properly reported and irregularities investigated.
pien@grapevine.com.au: 22 Aug 2010 11:56:11am
I would like to see departmental governments to place their consideration on truly qualified people who have proper degrees and capability in to the jobs. Instead, as in the past, at many places, interviers "pull hands of their relatives and friends" in to the vacant jobs, and ignore completely the selection criterions.
Everyone should enjoy the equal right as a citizen of Australia. The panel of selection/interviewers should not regard "skin color, small eyes or large eyes, must not regard only blond hair, and must not be racist".
Elizabeth Johnson: Student 21 Aug 2010 07:24:22pm
I would like to bring to your attention the plight of the middle aged woman who has been devoting all her child-rearing years to staying in part-time employment and losing her career opportunities so that she can be the Primary carer of the children AND the Husband. All the while the Husband is climbing the career ladder and once he is successfully installed in a Management position and the children are "older" but not left home, he deserts the marriage and leaves the Wife with the financial void of being unable to gain financial security again unless she invests $30k in gaining a Degree simply to secure long term work up to the retirement age. This is just to survive and maybe never fulfill home ownership or gain enough superannuation to support herself in her retirement.

Please tell me why the same rules apply to the middle aged woman as to the youth who have over two decades ahead of them to provide for their future financial security.

As a mature-age student, I feel there are greater health and financial needs, as well as fewer employment opportunities in the workforce, could the Government please exempt us from paying for our courses? I know that I have paid taxes and added value to my community as well as ensuring I have responsibly raised my children to lead productive and valuable lives - can I just have a head start to ensure I am successful in my career goals without being financially penalised for my dedication to others, and my efforts in ensuring I am not a financial liability in my retirement?

Regards
Elizabeth Johnson
Terence Dwyer: 21 Aug 2010 04:18:23pm
Education is not a matter of bricks and mortar. There needs to be a restoration of the reading and teaching of ancient and modern classics. Every student should be acquainted with Greek, Latin, and thought from Homer, Aristotle, Aquinas, Montesquieu, Locke, J S Mill and beyond.

Unfortunately many lecturers seem rather under-educated themselves.
Ange Kenos: educator 21 Aug 2010 12:29:36pm
Mr Abbott's side of politics have often showed their absolute disdain for higher education in so many ways. Their latests insults include opposing a high speed broad bank network which makes no sense whatsoever IF Mr Abbott believed truly in offering the best education possible.
Marilyn Richardson-Tench: Senior Lecturer in nursing 21 Aug 2010 12:03:50pm
I concur with the comments below in particular a reduction in the staff/student ratio, plus the number of year 1 students. 400 year 1 nursing students at my university - where do we secure clinical placements for this number? How will the government, either one if elected, increase the number of registered nurses if universities cannot provide a quality education both theory and clinical for the current students. Nor do we want nursing to be relocated to TAFE, you wouldn't relocate medicine, or physio or even podiatry to TAFE so hands off nursing!
How can academics possibly research with such large numbers of students.
I am sick and tired of hearing that graduates need to be 'work ready'. Work ready for what? Also competencies!! I want to be cared for by a nurse who is more than 'competent' thank you. Generally our higher education sector is churning out graduates who are at best competent.
Dr Peter Scottney-Turbill: Writer 21 Aug 2010 10:25:46am
Scholarships for full-time candidates undertaking higher degrees by research must be reviewed and expanded. How is it that a PhD candidate, whose thesis was unanimously recommended for the award, was not able to secure a top-up scholarship for his final 12 months of the 4 years it took him to research and write the dissertation? To complete the PhD, this scholar had to fork out over $25,000 just in living expenses for that final year as there was no further financial support available.
Barbara Brougham: freelance academic writer and advisor 20 Aug 2010 04:11:15pm
Just five of the things that are absolutely vital to secure a robust future for Australia's tertiary sector:
Firstly, we need a debate about whether Australia needs 38 'universities', an original very bad policy decision by Dawkins that Ms Gillard's Education Revolution has not begun to touch on. After 20 years of the Dawkins revolution, it will take another 20 years of a new, more realistic revolution to sort out the damage from the first one.
Secondly, research needs to be better and more flexibly funded.
Thirdly, more job security and opportunities are required for junior academics.
Fourthly, the universities should be allowed more say in how they raise and spend funds AND more public funds should be put into education.
Fifthly, staff student ratios must be reduced at all levels.
Also, education is too important for a nation's future and well being to be turned over to the private sector or to be considered a commodity to be bought and sold according to the whims of the market.
Emeritus Professor Peter Schwerdtfeger: Retired Professor of Meteorology, Flinders University 20 Aug 2010 12:43:24pm
University education at many formerly great Australian universities has become a farce.
Flinders once oscillated between No.1 and No.2 on the research achievement ladder listing Australian universities. Now it does not make the first 15.
Why, I hear you cry. It is because the main purpose of such universities is to export degrees, not raise the intellectual resources of the Nation.
Because completely masked muslim figures enroll for worthless degrees, the contents have been modified to allow their participation. Hence observational sciences such as Meteorology and Oceanography, in which I once took students on extensive field trips, including the need to climb, dig and swim, are no longer possible because of "cultural" sensitivities pandering to sex-discriminating religions. "Practical Work" for all students has therefore been modified to take place indoors, where all wisdom is deemed to emanate from flickering computer screens.
No wonder saner societies such as China's are surging ahead in knowledge and innovation achievements.
Good-night Australia!
David Flynn: Sessional Lecturer/ Tutor and Research Assistant 20 Aug 2010 12:07:28pm
Hello
I am appalled by the Commonwealth Government extending what seems to be core funding to private providers in the Higher Education sector. I have watched the destruction of our TAFE from this strategy. I work in a multi sector university.
The teaching and research quality in HEd is falling rapidly and the admin staff is growing rapidly as the bureacratic poor performing managers and organisations react in theor simplistic ways. Under resourcing is rife and outputs are indirect and limited in scope. But the admin bureacracy keeps growing. Very poor outcomes.
What do these Governments think they are doing?
nai: 19 Aug 2010 12:56:59pm
With the increasing rise of senior academics nearing retirement, we hv not seen steps and incentives for non-PhD academics to win small national grants. Grants are all for big league professors and those who win them are the same people year after year. Also, where is the support for non-metro universities? We have arts, business, science, agri, medical needs too. Is there a population west of the Great Dividing Range that needs a university? At this rate we are going, the desert has expanded east.
angela: 18 Aug 2010 09:57:40pm
Gillard's policies on teacher education are terrible. Where is the real funding for improving teacher education in universities? There is no commitment to real policies- just bandaids like TEACH NEXT for ex bankers!
Urvi Parikh: 16 Aug 2010 12:01:51pm
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Graham Mitchell: School Executive Officer 16 Aug 2010 11:10:22am
I can not see the Education Revolution from where I sit. I am sure that universities need more funding. Engineering programmes need to be enhanced, with a greater emphasis on the pracitical application of the discipline. Univeristies have been cutting on practicals and relying more on straight theory. Students learn at their optimun while 'doing' as opposed to listening and looking.
Thank you.
era koirala: admin asst 16 Aug 2010 09:12:13am
there is discrimination for for middle aged or elderly staff within the university system, equality exits nowhere including the tertiary field.
Steve: Assistant Professor 16 Aug 2010 12:13:03am
Desperately need funding in mathematics and statistics department if the nation is to move forward... no good to have PhD qualified staff taking tutorials and lab classes and not doing any research...
Pat Ridges: 14 Aug 2010 05:06:36pm
More research money from Fed Gov is required to keep our top science brains in Australia
Sue Stone: 14 Aug 2010 11:24:45am
Create more university places and funding in regional Australia to assist with urban sprawl.
Mark Fisher: 13 Aug 2010 01:31:37pm
Allow students to get permanent residency again so our overseas student numbers rise again, and keep the state of our Universities liquid
Jarrod Kanizay: 13 Aug 2010 10:02:05am
I think that the government should consider lifting Higher Ed superannuation to 21%. We need even more incentive for more industry professionals to join our arena.
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