Nine Australian universities have today launched the 2050 Alliance to build a better future for students and communities across Australia. The Alliance is committed to achieving the national goal of increasing tertiary attainment to at least 80% of the working-age population by 2050, to ensure that all Australians have the opportunity to obtain the knowledge and skills they will need for a brighter future. Reaching this target promises to add $240 billion to Australia’s economy by 2050.
Read MoreThe Innovative Research Universities (IRU) welcomes the Senate’s passing of an amended bill to establish the new Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC). This is a major long-term reform that will improve stewardship of the system and bring greater focus on the mission of public universities to deliver education and research for their communities.
Read MoreThe Innovative Research Universities (IRU) welcomes the release today of Ambitious Australia, the final report from the Australian Government’s Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD). The IRU agrees with the SERD Expert Panel that policy and funding reform is needed and that decisions made in the 2020s will be critical for setting Australia up for the decades ahead, to ensure increased productivity and intergenerational justice.
Read MoreThe Innovative Research Universities (IRU) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on this Bill and the important issue of reforming the Job-Ready Graduates (JRG) policy package. We agree that there is an urgent need to reduce the most expensive student fees for higher education, end $50,000 Arts degrees and reverse the negative impacts
Read MoreThe Innovative Research Universities (IRU) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on proposed changes to the Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021. The Threshold Standards play a critical role in maintaining the high quality of Australia’s higher education system and providing the basis for regulation and
Read MoreThe Innovative Research Universities (IRU) strongly supports the reforms from the Universities Accord designed to achieve a more balanced and innovative higher education system with increased student participation and equity to meet Australia’s future needs. The establishment of a new Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC)
Read MoreThe 2050 Alliance recognises Indigenous peoples across Australia as the traditional owners of the unceded lands upon which our campuses sit today. Indigenous peoples are our first educators and innovators, with long-held philosophies of Country. As institutions of knowledge, our universities are proud to play a role in continuing this tradition.
We believe that education and research play an important role in reconciliation, recognition, justice and Indigenous advancement. Through our strategy, we will prioritise work to advance participation, equity and cultural respect, and we will reflect this in our contributions to public policy.
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