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Im WESTERN SYDNEY OFFI CE of the VICE-CHANCELLOR and PRESIDENT Qi' UNIVERSITY Professor Barney Glover AO Im WESTERN SYDNEY OFFI CE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT Qi' UNIVERSITY Professor Barney Glover AO 10 September 2020 Committee Secreta1y Senate Education and Employment Committees PO Box6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Via email: eec.sen @aph.gov.au Dear Secretary Subject: Submission Western Sydney University welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the inquiry into the Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020. As a major metropolitan university, serving Australia's fastest growing, and most culturally and socioeconomically diverse region, Western Sydney University remains committed to supporting its community through the current challenging period and beyond. Legislative reform is an impo1tant opportunity to optimise the cenh·al role universities perform in responding to large-scale labour market dislocation, economic disruption and social upheaval. The Commonwealth's Job-ready Graduates Reform Package is, in the University's view, a mechanism designed to support recovery through structural change, funding efficiencies, and related shifts in emphasis. While supportive of its intent, the University notes the package presents challenges to an institution in a setting like Western Sydney. This is particularly so on the issues of 1) student growth, and 2) support for socioeconomically disadvantaged students. As this submission details, Western Sydney is fares poorly, overall, on both counts under the reforms. Other aspects of the package, such as the 'priority' student places for areas of national interest, are well suited supporting large-scale infrashucture, employment and industry attraction initiatives like the Western Sydney City Deal, the coming airport and Aeroh·opolis. Recalibrating and accelerating the higher education sector's alignment with these major projects is even more important now in the context of economic recove1y and jobs generation. Equally, support for more seamless links between universities and vocational providers is vitally impo1tant in the current setting, as are closer connections with industry. The reforms broadly deliver on those fronts. I urge the Committee to closely consider this submission in the constructive intent in which it has been framed. The University supports reform and recognises the critical role of the Commonwealth in this regard. Ensuring that we have the balance right will be pivotal if we are to fully realise the transformative capacity of Aush·alian universities at a time when it is most needed. Yours sincerely Professor Barney Glover AO Vice-Chancellor and President Locked llot 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Wcstem Sydney University Al3N53 OU 069881 CRICOS Pl'O\•ider N<i 00911K wcsl.ernsydney.cdu.a u Western Sydney University’s submission to the inquiry and report into the Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 10 September 2020 With reference to the overview provided in this submission’s covering letter, Western Sydney University confines its commentary and (3) recommendations on the Bill to the following issues: 1. the allocation of additional growth funding; 2. the redistribution of LowSES support; and 3. support for ‘areas of national priority’. As a member of the Innovative Research Universities group, Western Sydney University notes that its broader views on the Bill will be conveyed via the IRU’s submission to this Inquiry. 1. the allocation of additional growth funding The Job-ready Graduates Package allocates additional Commonwealth Grant Scheme (CGS) funding for universities, based on campus location. Funding will increase by: • 3.5 per cent a year for ‘regional’ campuses; • 2.5 per cent a year for campuses located in ‘high-growth metropolitan’ areas; and • 1 per cent per year for campuses located in ‘low-growth metropolitan’ areas. The reforms use a segmented demographic growth formula to allocate the three proposed growth criteria on the basis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ statistical area 4 (SA4) locations. These large-area definitions are problematic. In the case of a diverse area like Western Sydney, they simply do not account for very sharp, and locationally proximate differences in socioeconomic circumstances, educational advantage, and labour market need within the region’s SA4s. An analysis of Commonwealth Electoral Divisions across Western Sydney highlights the contradictions in the allocation of ‘high growth’ status to areas with comparatively low rates of university degree attainment and areas of socioeconomic marginalisation. By way of example, the characteristics of the Western Sydney electorates of Lindsay, Macquarie and Blaxland are indicative of the challenges the Bill’s growth provisions place on a range of comparable areas. Division of Lindsay As a consequence of its inclusion in the much larger ‘Outer West and Blue Mountains’ statistical area 4 (SA4), Lindsay falls within the Bill’s ‘low-growth metropolitan’ category; meaning it receives the lowest possible growth allocation of 1 per cent per year. This is a profoundly challenging outcome for the electorate given its exceptionally low rates of university degree attainment (13 per cent) and the need to rapidly upscale educational levels in support of economic recovery. Western Sydney University Page 2 of 8 Major new residential developments across Lindsay, in areas like Caddens, compound the difficulty new and existing residents face in seeking to up/ re-skill at Western Sydney University's Kingswood Campus, the electorate's sole university campus. In recent years the University has made substantial investments in state-of-the-art engineering facilities at the campus to suppo1t the electorate's emerging advanced manufacturing and infrastructure engineering clusters. Kingswood is also the site of the planned TAFE NSW Western Sydney Construction Hub, adjacent to Western Sydney University's campus. The Bill's low growth allocation for Lindsay runs counter to the imperative to upscale opportunities for university-vocational collaboration of the type the Hub presents. Lindsay is also the location of Western Sydney University's 'Launch Pad', the region's largest and most intensive sta1t-up and tech-SME incubator. Launch Pad suppo1ts over 150 local businesses and entrepreneurs. Less student growth allocations for Lindsay, means reduced capacity for student placements, work integrated learning and upskilling alongside Launch Pad businesses. This would seem counter intuitive to the need to ensure business at this critical stratum thrive in the interest of Lindsay residents and the broader region. TABLE1 Job-ready Graduates growth allocations by Western Sydney federal electorates Electorate I Status under JRG I % w / university degree I % Non-English I Income I Rent Banks Low growth 25.8 47.7 $1,598 $420 Blaxland I Lowgrowth I 17.3 I n.o I $1,222 I $390 Chifley High growth 17.8 47.3 $1,477 $350 Fowler I Hig~ _growth I 12.7 I 72.3 I $1,212 I $334 Greenway High growth 27.1 45.S $1,941 $410 Lindsay I Lowgrowth I 13.5 I 19.6 I $1,612 I $365 - Macarthur High growth 14.4 22.2 $1,573 $360 - Macquarie I Lowgrowth I 21.1 I 9.o I $1,556 I $355 McMahon High growth 14.5 57.3 $1,412 $390 Mitchell I High_growth I 33.4 I 38.1 I $2,268 I $550 Parramatta Low growth 34.0 61.3 $1,596 $410 Reid I Lowgrowth I 37.6 I 56.4 I $1,898 I $520 Watson Low growth 22.9 69.9 $1,281 $380 Werriwa I High_growth I 15.2 I 59.S I $1,572 I $380 Average: 21.9 48.4 $1,587 $401 I I I I I Rest of Sydney 37.4 32.8 $2,069 $522 - Australia I I 22.0 I 22.2 I $1,438 I $335 - Notes: SA45 and CEDs are not a direct spatial match - the Table makes growth 'status' classifications based on the majority area of overlap. All data is from the 2016 Census, Australian Bureau ofStatistics . 'Status under JRG' refers to the 'growth' allocation under the Job-ready Graduates Package. '% w/ uni degree' is the percentage ofpeople 15 years and over with educational attainment ofBachelor Degree level and above. 'Non English' refers to the percentage ofhouseholds where a non-English language is spoken. 1ncome' is median weekly household income. 'Rent' is median weekly rent. vVestern Sydney University Page3 of8 Division of Macquarie As TABLE 1 shows, the challenges the Bill places on Lindsay are similarly evident at multiple locations across Western Sydney. The outer north-Western Sydney and Blue Mountains electorate of Macquarie has also been designated 'low growth' under the Bill. Again, this classification mischaracterises the seat as marginal to the national skills and education agenda, despite the fact Western Sydney University's Hawkesbury Campus services the neighbouring North West Growth Corridor, one of the NSW Covernment's priority areas of rapid and sustained residential growth. Urgent upskilling is also necessary in this electorate to leverage the University's large-scale industry-partnered investments in protected cropping technology. The world leading greenhouse food production and logistics capacity being developed at the campus will be critical to supporting major agribusiness priorities under the Western Sydney City Deal, of which Macquarie is a part. This opportunity cannot be realised under a 'low growth' setting. Division of Blaxland Lastly, the classification of the Division of Blaxland, and sections of the surrounding electorates, as 'low growth' under the Bill is at odds with a record level of industry investment by Walker Corporation in the establishment of a $300 million plus Western Sydney University campus in the Bankstown CBD. This technology-infused campus will be vital in driving jobs and recovery for South Western Sydney. Substantial employment will be generated during its 18-month construction period. It is also estimated that the delivery of the new campus alone in 2022 will generate more than $82 million per annum in local economic activity.
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