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In brief CQU ‘back on the Region to work together Wanted: Asia­literate graduates to talk turkey Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans has announced Australian support for two regional projects following the There is a strong view that McCallum says the report will be international business courses but be track to greatness’ inaugural East Asia Summit education released in August to coincide with embedded in the undergraduate and ministers meeting that was held in more Australians must study the anticipated launch of the Henry postgraduate programs in humanities Indonesia from July 3 to 5. The first the languages and cultures white paper. and social sciences, particularly Joanna Mather that C-Management Services would project, to be carried out in partnership “Despite our geographic proximity, economics, law, creative industries, eventually be listed on the Australian with Korea, is to establish a regional of our influential neighbours, Australia’s engagement with Asia science and engineering and CQUniversity vice-chancellor Scott Stock Exchange, securing a network of technical and vocational writes Joanna Mather. threatens to decline while other education,” its submission says. Bowman has declared his institution comfortable future for the university’s education and training providers to countries enhance educational, Several submissions cite the back from the brink of financial main campus in Rockhampton, exchange ideas, share expertise and business and people-to-people links,” Australian Consortium for In- disaster and on track to become one central Queensland. form commercial partnerships. The Business leaders say the single biggest he says. Country Indonesian Study (ACICIS) of the nation’s “great” universities. But the 13-year partnership ended second will involve the University of challenge for engaging more fully in “By 2030 China and India will be as an exemplar for exposing Hitting back at critics who in February 2008, when the university Melbourne co­ordinating the delivery of Asia is attracting and retaining the dominant global economies as university students and other young “scoffed” at his initial targets for paid $12 million for the remaining 50 quality assurance training for higher “Asia-capable” talent. Educators and power and influence shifts professionals to Asia. Since 1995 improvement, Professor Bowman said per cent. education officials from across the policy makers tend to use the term overwhelmingly to Australia’s more than 1300 students from 33 CQUniversity was now on firm Following the collapse of its region. “Education co­operation between “Asia literate”. doorstep.” universities have studied in Indonesia financial footing and could set its Meridian group of colleges, GCM EAS members will lead to harmonised However you describe it, there is a Research by Asialink and the with ACICIS. Among the program’s sights higher than ever before. was placed into voluntary education systems in the areas of clear need for Australia to become Australian Industry Group has found alumni is Jennifer Robinson, who Among his new goals is to lift administration a year later in 2009. training, skills and qualification better rehearsed in the languages and that businesses rate having senior went on to become Julian Assange’s CQUniversity’s research performance Today CQUniversity still has its recognition,” Senator Evans said. cultures of its nearest neighbours. staff capable of working cross- legal adviser in 2010. from near the bottom of the pack at capital city campuses but recent Joanna Mather As former Treasury boss Ken culturally in Asia very highly. They Some students who take part in the present into the top half of the growth has been in domestic students, Henry prepares a white paper on also rate having a strategy for Asian program are already learning nation’s 39 universities. principally from regional Queensland. Australia in the Asian Century, much operations, strong local partnerships Indonesian at their home university in “The university was the worst “We were using the income from UTAS chancellor chosen of the focus has been on schools. in Asia and knowledge of Asian Australia and go there to spend a full house in the best street and we’ve our metro campuses to prop up the Former Tasmanian premier Michael Field Labor’s language policies have business operations. semester, others do a shorter stint actually started a renovation job that regional university,” Professor has been chosen as the next chancellor mostly been schools-based. Similarly, In its submission, law firm King & over summer. we couldn’t have dreamed of Bowman said. of the University of Tasmania. Mr Field, the opposition has promised to lift the Wood Mallesons says a national The program’s founder and achieving a few years ago,” Professor “So what we’ve done over the last an alumnus of the university, will replace number of Year12 students learning policy directed at promoting and director, David Hill, a professor of Bowman said. three years is very much focus on former Commonwealth Director of Public a second language to 40 per cent supporting people-to-people south-east Asian Studies at Murdoch “We’re one of the fastest growing central Queensland. That’s where Prosecutions Damian Bugg, whose term within a decade. exchanges in education and the University, says about 45 students a universities in Australia with 30 per we’ve seen all the growth and we’re comes to an end on December 31. For many of those already at professions should be created. year do the semester program, while cent growth in domestic student now just about independent of that Originally from Railton on Tasmania’s university, the language initiatives It says businesses operating in the 60 to 80 take part in the summer numbers over the past three years.” [city campus] income.” north­west coast, Mr Field was elected will come too late. Accountants, Asian region should be encouraged to offering. In 2009, Professor Bowman and his If the financial sustainability goal to the House of Assembly for the seat of lawyers and doctors studying now create employment opportunities for The Asian Studies Association of senior management team adopted a has been met, the remaining ones are Braddon in 1976, and he was Labor need to find other, quicker ways to Asia-literate graduates, and to value Australia, which is holding its renewal program involving several harder to tie down. premier and treasurer from 1989 to become familiar with Asia. Asian literacy “as an important biannual conference in Sydney this main goals, including achieving But Professor Bowman is adamant. 1992 under the historic Labor­Green Academic leaders such as Kent criterion in overall candidate week, has recommended that the financial sustainability by 2012 and He said the addition of 30 new Accord. Joanna Mather Anderson, the pro vice-chancellor selection, management promotion and ACICIS model be adopted for other becoming a “strong regional programs to meet local jobs needs (international) at the University of Australian universities are in the frontline today to produce students who are Asia­capable and familiar with the language and culture of our neighbours. Photo: LOUIE DOUVIS executive assessment processes”. countries. university” within five years. Adelaide, say short stints of study There are two schools of thought on ACICIS summer students go to “A lot of people scoffed when we MGSM appoints Kirkbride overseas are part of the solution and sets them up for the reality of careers Century”. The opposition, meanwhile, 2009 and 2010, according to an what Asian literacy means. learn about international relations, set those targets but everyone here got Macquarie Graduate School of are valuable even if the teaching is nowadays,” he says. has announced a reverse Colombo Language is Australian Universities International In its purest sense, Asian literacy is international development or behind them,” Professor Bowman Management in Sydney has appointed done in English. Adelaide is not alone in recognising Plan, which was a 1950s scheme that Directors Forum study, the results of knowledge of at least one Asian journalism. Language lessons happen said, admitting he too was “pretty Paul Kirkbride to the role of director of At Adelaide, architecture students the need to provide opportunities for supported foreign students to study important as which were released earlier this year. language. But there is another camp in the mornings; seminars in English critical of the university before I executive education. Dr Kirkbride will join with no language training have the students beyond those who are in here following World War II. Tertiary Education Minister Chris that uses “literacy” in a broader sense occur in the afternoons. started working here”. MGSM in August following his departure opportunity every year to attend a language classes or studying The opposition’s deputy leader and learning a foreign Evans acknowledges there is more to to mean the culture, art and sociology The program’s business model is a Despite his confidence in the from Mt Eliza Executive Education at “studio” in India. international relations. Many foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie be done. “At the end of 2011, more of another county. simple one. Member universities pay university’s financial health, Melbourne Business School. He has a Students spend two weeks in India universities are incorporating study Bishop, says more Australian students language teaches than 97,000 Chinese students were As valuable as short-term exposure an annual membership levy of $900, CQUniversity was one of only a few PhD in organisational power and has working on projects with Indian abroad experiences into mainstream should go on exchange to Asia. But enrolled in higher education courses is, The University of Adelaide’s which entitles students from that universities in Australia that finished specialised in organisational change, architects and students. degrees, either as one-off subjects or details of how the scheme would work you empathy that is in Australia,” he said in February. Anderson – like many involved in university to a $1000 discount on 2011 in the red. The university leadership and human resources “You don’t have to be fluent in the longer semester abroad experiences. have not been released, nor has it “At the same time, it is estimated the Asian literacy debate – believes tuition fees. But Hill wants federal recorded an overall loss of management. Joanna Mather language, just being exposed to the At the University of Technology in been costed. almost impossible to more than 3000 Australian students the long-term imperative is to government support to significantly $3.76 million, although this was an country is eye-opening and Sydney, for example, students can Rates of outbound mobility – that learn any other way. were studying in China.” encourage language learning across scale up the program. improvement on 2010’s $6.3 million Over the last three UNSW snares health grant transformative for those students,” combine almost any undergraduate is, Australians going overseas to The need for graduates willing and the educational spectrum, as well as “We believe we should be getting deficit. By comparison, Monash says Anderson, a lawyer whose degree – ranging from property study – are on the rise, and Kent Anderson, able to work in Asia is high on the list to “mainstream” Asian perspectives hundreds each semester,” he says. University had a surplus of years we’ve very The University of NSW has received a expertise is in Asia. “It’s two weeks so economics to business, engineering scholarships funded by universities University of Adelaide of priorities for business too. and knowledge in schools, vocational Hill isn’t a purist when it comes to $96.6 million last year, up from a $1.2 million grant from Health it’s not like you have to quit your job and biotechnology – with a two-year and the Prime Minister’s Australia In a submission to the white paper education and degrees. language learning. ACICIS graduates surplus of $32.8 million in 2010. much focused on Workforce Australia to develop or take out a mortgage.” international studies course. Students Asia Awards are available to consultations, a group of top-level “I’m of the belief that language is may or may not end up being fluent Professor Bowman said computer­simulated learning Another program caters for trainee specialise in a particular country, encourage Australian students to businesses representatives say the important because learning a foreign in Indonesian, he says. But what they CQUniversity’s loss was small and not central Queensland. environments for medical, nursing and lawyers. Each year around 55 students China for example, and spend their study in other countries. “single most pressing challenge for language teaches you empathy that is will have for the rest of their lives is particularly concerning given there allied health professionals. Technology from several Australian universities fourth year studying in that country. Australian students also have organisations wishing to engage in almost impossible to learn any other an understanding and appreciation of was a $6.8 million surplus on revenue That’s where we’ve developed by the university, called travel to Kyoto for a short course on Both sides of politics are making access to income-contingent loans of Asia is attracting, retaining and way,” he says. what Indonesia is beyond drug from general operations and the SmartSparrow, will be rolled out across Japanese law, delivered in English. the right noises about preparing up to $5824 to help finance their leveraging Asia capable talent”. In its submission to the white paper offences, terrorism and cheap university was heavily investing in seen all the growth. NSW. SmartSparrow gives students “In the past we’d teach lawyers all young Australians for contemporary overseas study. The total amount Asialink, based at the University of consultations, the Australia-China holidays. new facilities and programs. Scott Bowman, VC, CQUniversity feedback as they learn and identifies about NSW property law and then careers. accessed through the scheme is Melbourne, has established an Asia Council talks about Asian “cultural “Whether they become an The outlook is also still brighter students’ strengths and weaknesses for suddenly they’d go into a firm and The federal government has asked expected to reach $39 million this Capable Workplace Task Force literacy”, noting it should be a key accountant or zoologist, the than when Professor Bowman arrived their tutors. Staff reporter they would be asked to write a Henry to consider the “likely year. chaired by ANZ chief executive Mike requirement for all university experience is going to see them well at CQUniversity in August 2009, and significant enrolment growth contract to buy a plane in, say, economic and strategic changes in the But federal funding for scholarship Smith to report on Australia’s graduates in the future. into the Asian century.” having just departed his role as were a good indication the goal of Indonesia,” Anderson says. region and what more can be done to programs for outbound student readiness for the Asian century. “Asian cultural literacy should be a deputy vice-chancellor (university becoming a strong regional university Unpaid labour draws fire “So this kind of exposure in Japan position Australia for the Asian mobility was stable at $6.3 million in Asialink spokesman Will key component of not only A missed chance, page 36 n services) at James Cook University. within five years had been met, and Britain’s tertiary education union has At the time, a report by two years ahead of time. criticised the University of Birmingham Queensland Treasury Corporation The university’s new goal is to for advertising for a “honorary research had found that sharp declines in become a “great” university by 2020. assistant” in its school of psychology. Business park lures uni student numbers, chiefly caused by a Achieving that, according to The University and College Union said Closures after Victorian TAFEs face big cuts change in skilled migration rules, Professor Bowman, will involve universities should have to pay might extinguish the university’s cash moving the university up from just researchers properly for their work. The Joanna Mather ing at a 2013 commencement date, reserves for general operations some about last in terms of research advertisement said posts were offered Joanna Mather is, it offers both vocational courses also has targets for disadvantaged subject to demand. time in the 2011 financial year. performance into the top half of on a voluntary basis with a minimum and degrees. students, many of whom come People power is bringing postgraduate Mr Taggart, the former president of The probe had been ordered in universities nationally. time commitment of two days a week. The pain keeps coming for TAFE Others, including Victoria through TAFE. Students who education to Norwest Business Park, a the Australian Association of Finan- 2008 after Central Queensland He said the federally funded “Applicants must have access to their students, with Swinburne University University and the University of complete a diploma or advanced commercial and industrial precinct in cial Advisers, said the park had a daily University, as it was then known, Collaborative Research Network was own car and will only be reimbursed for the latest to dump courses and axe Ballarat, have also been forced to diploma program at the vocational Baulkham Hills in Sydney’s north-west intake of 22,000 people, which was posted a deficit of $4.6 million.A helping, along with recruiting strong petrol, not paid for their work,” it said. jobs as a result of the Victorian make changes following the Victorian level are often given credit towards a suburbs. “bigger than most country towns” and year earlier, it had recorded a profit performers from elsewhere. The union said the “offer” undermined government’s cost cutting measures. government’s decision to remove university degree. For example, a Staff from major retail, banking, would grow to 33,000 within the next of $21.9 million. “We have gone out and bought in the principles of equal pay and is A “reshaping” of the university’s $290 million in TAFE funding in the student who completes an advanced legal and scientific organisations in the five years. The strife came on top of an some great researchers,” he said. discriminatory. Staff reporter TAFE operations will mean the 2012-14 state budget. diploma in business administration park are set to be given access to Uni- “We have national and state compa- already atypical financial past for an The university’s goal for greatness closure of the Lilydale campus in July Swinburne had $35 million cut could go straight into the second year versity of Notre Dame postgraduate nies whose staff need access to profes- Australian university. With the extends to being an “inclusive” next year, the offering of 240 from its budget for this financial year. of a commerce degree at university. business courses on their doorstep. sional development and education,” he international student market booming university and a “giving” university. Executive for director role voluntary redundancies and the shut- The effects of the budget cuts have Because of the changes, students Local MP David Elliott and busi- said. “We hope classes can be held on in the 1990s, Central Queensland CQUniversity has partnered with A former senior financial services down of courses in hospitality, also hit stand-alone TAFE colleges who previously paid around $2000 nessman Jim Taggart have led efforts to weekends, evenings, lunchtimes – University entered into a joint venture an Indian charity to provide tertiary executive is the new director of the leisure, recreation and tourism. hard, and will flow through the would now have to pay as much as get a university to hold MBA and other whenever it suits the students.” with Global Campus Management, a scholarships for children who University of Adelaide’s International Announcing the changes last system for years to come, $6000 for a diploma, a cost Dr classes locally so students do not have The business park is home to Wool- private, for-profit company owned by previously lived on the streets. Most Centre for Financial Services. Andrew Friday, vice-chancellor Linda jeopardising the government’s targets Whitley said many in his community to travel to central Sydney. worths, ResMed, B. Braun Australia businessman Mark Skinner. of the recipients will study in India. McLachlan has held senior leadership Kristjanson said Swinburne’s future for a better educated population, would find prohibitive. Mr Elliott, the member for and Capital Finance. There are also As C-Management Services, the “A lot of universities will talk and executive positions with life was as “Australia’s leading university GippsTAFE chief executive Peter GippsTAFE’s Peter Whitley says cuts will derail government targets. Photo: LUIS ASCUI “The stepping stone is gone and Baulkham Hills, said several dozen around 2000 private homes. partners established campuses in about their greatness because they insurance company Tower, which is now in science, technology and Whitley has warned. their chance of getting directly into people had shown interest in enrolling Master’s and doctoral programs in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and have a cut-off score that’s very high,” TAL Ltd, and IOOF Holdings. He innovation”. As such, new degrees At the college in regional Victoria, Dr Whitley said a third of the 30 or afford to offer them; others would Monash is reduced,” he said. “It in a locally offered master’s. “We inter- management, marketing and related the Gold Coast and in 2006 Professor Bowman said. previously worked as a lawyer would include a bachelor of health where Dr Whitley has already let go so diploma courses offered by close because student fees would means they need a high tertiary viewed three universities to come into a areas are among the initial offerings Central Queensland University “What those universities are specialising in superannuation, banking sciences with specialisations in sports 32 teaching and administrative staff, GippsTAFE would fold. become too high, eroding demand. entrance score on leaving school. But joint venture,” he said. “Notre Dame planned. “Our first doctoral candidate was Australia’s largest provider actually saying is, we’re not going to and finance law. Mr McLachlan will be science, nutrition and psychology. a dozen or more courses He said the state budget cuts meant The federal government wants the outcome is more likely to be that won because they were by far the most from this initiative has already started of education to international define ourselves by who we exclude. seeking to expand the centre’s research Swinburne is one of five dual- guaranteeing entry into Monash some diplomas would be funded at 40 per cent of the population to have the student doesn’t participate in flexible in their approach.” the admissions process,” a university students in Australia. Former vice- We are great because we exclude portfolio. Joanna Mather sector universities in Australia. That University will be shut down. such a low rate GippsTAFE could not a bachelor degree or above by 2025. It higher education.” Notre Dame confirmed it was look- spokeswoman said. chancellor John Rickard had hoped people.” FBA 024