Higher education is integral to achieving the Government’s vision of a stronger and fairer Australia.
It fuels economic development, productivity and high skilled jobs and supports Australia’s role as a
middle power and leader in the region.
In response to the findings of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education, the Australian
Government will make an unprecedented investment in our universities and tertiary education system
to drive comprehensive reform across the post-compulsory education and training sector.
This will include an immediate injection of funding to address weaknesses and build on strengths,
while putting in place a realistic plan over the next decade to ensure the higher education system is
sustainable into the future.
Together with major investments in the national broadband network and the plan to combat climate
change, the tertiary education revolution will change and enlarge Australia’s economic potential.
The investments and reforms being made will drive improvements in productivity and create a smarter,
cleaner and more competitive economic future for Australia.
By putting students clearly at the centre of its reforms, the Government has signalled its commitment
to the expansion of a high quality university sector, to educate the graduates needed by an economy
based on knowledge, skills and innovation.

The Australian Government’s new commitment to using the knowledge and skills of Australian researchers will be a significant tool in meeting the challenges before Australian policy makers. In this media release, the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences member organisation, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, supports the Prime Minister Rudd’s call for building stronger bridges between the public service and Australian universities.

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Article from: The Australian
DESPITE a hammering in the Asian media over student safety, and fears for the higher education sector’s international reputation, Australia’s elite universities have consolidated their place in the global rankings.

Times Higher Education today published world rankings showing Australia’s Group of Eight research universities are all placed in the global top 100.

The ranking, a collaboration between THE and higher education consultants Quacquarelli Symonds, is used around the world by consumers – parents and students – as well as academics looking for work and employers seeking recruits. ……

WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2009

UM is number 36

UM is number 13 of the top 50 in Life Sciences and biomedicine

UM is 23rd of the top 50 in Natural sciences

The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition was released today in a symposium held at Griffith University’s Southbank campus in Brisbane. The report is the second in the series to focus on the impact of emerging technologies on postsecondary education in Australia and New Zealand. The Horizon Report series is a product of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, an ongoing research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education and other sectors.

In defining the six selected areas—Mobile Internet Devices; Private Clouds; Open Content; Virtual, Augmented, and Alternate Realities; Location-Based Learning; and Smart Objects and Devices—the project drew on an ongoing discussion among knowledgeable leaders and practitioners in business, industry, and education in Australia and New Zealand, as well as published resources, current research and practice, and the expertise of the educational community itself. The Horizon Project’s Australia-New Zealand Advisory Board probed current trends and challenges in post compulsory education as they are uniquely expressed in Australia and New Zealand, explored possible topics for the report, and over several rounds of rankings and dialog, selected the final technologies.