ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand International higher education news • April 2010
ACUMA Incorporated: International higher education news - April 2010
Blueprint for a comfortable stay Lost in language wasteland 400 Malaysian Students In Inter-Varsity Games In Melbourne Aid plan: Overseas med students weigh in COAG Moves to Strengthen International Students Sector Indian migrants to be one of Australia's largest communities, says report Students threaten to 'shame' politicians over fees Asian University Leaders, Meeting in Australia, Seek to Improve International Ties For-profit universities not welcome in India Education agreement signed with India The Wall Street Journal Debuts India Real Time Blog South Australia aiming to 'poach' British university students with promise of better quality of life Rights fear for 'outsiders' When Indian students suffer, Australia risks being scarred for life Foreign investors homing in Overseas enrolments continue to rise India Australia Education Council to Be Constituted Australia Consolidates Educational Links with India Australia, India sign education deal Foreign students targeted Stretching our wings to China Showcasing life abroad AACA National Campus Band Competition / National Campus Film Festival / National Campus Art Prize / National Campus DJ Competition launched
Lost in language wasteland The Australian April 28 2010 APPLICATIONS will soon close for a new $9 million round of the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program. During an August 2008 stopover in Singapore, Kevin Rudd famously restated his long-held wish for Australians to become Asia literate and for Australian lawyers, architects and other professionals with Asian language skills to be much more prominent throughout Asia. Full article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/lost-in-language-wasteland/storye6frgcko-1225859031240 Blueprint for a comfortable stay The Australian April 28 2010 LAST year the Council of Australian Governments agreed to develop a comprehensive international student strategy. Following COAG's meeting last week, there is to be an international student consultative committee and a "study in Australia" information portal to provide a single comprehensive source of information on personal safety, student support services, and tenancy and employment rights and responsibilities. From mid-year, international students will be required to provide evidence of health insurance cover for their proposed visa duration at the time they apply for their visa, thus partly filling a potential gap in students' health coverage. Full article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion-analysis/blueprint-for-a-comfortablestay/story-e6frgcko-1225859021839 Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au
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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand International higher education news • April 2010
400 Malaysian Students In Inter-Varsity Games In Melbourne Bernama - Malaysia April 25 2010 More than 400 Malaysian student athletes and 60 volunteers took part in the inter-varsity games organised by the Victorian Chapter of the Malaysian Student Council of Australia over the weekend. Full article: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=493323 Aid plan: Overseas med students weigh in AsiaOne Education via The Straits Times - Singapore April 25 2010 SOME medical students overseas are not too excited about a proposal to partially finance their course in return for a four-year bond, even if most parents welcome the move. The students say the four-year commitment attached to the pre-employment grant, which pays up to 60 per cent for the last two years of medical education abroad, is too excessive. Full article: http://news.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100423-212018.html COAG Moves to Strengthen International Students Sector Media Release: The Hon Julia Gillard MP April 21 2010 The Minister for Education Julia Gillard today welcomed the Council of Australian Governments’ agreement today to introduce a range of measures to improve the safety and wellbeing of international students. Full article: http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_100421_141219.aspx Indian migrants to be one of Australia's largest communities, says report The Times of India April 18 2010 Indian migrants will be one of the largest communities in this country in the next 15 years when Australia-born families will become a minority group, a media report said on Sunday citing statistics from a consulting firm. Outnumbered by a surging wave of migrants from Europe and Asia, especially from India and China, Australians will become a minority group in their own country within 15 years, Australia-based 'Daily Telegraph' reported quoting figures from demographic consultants Macroplan Australia. Full article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/indians-abroad/Indian-migrants-to-be-one-of-Australiaslargest-communities-says-report/articleshow/5828493.cms
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Students threaten to 'shame' politicians over fees BBC - United Kingdom April 14 2010 Students are threatening to shame politicians who refuse to take a stand against any rise in university tuition fees in England. The new head of the National Union of Students (NUS) Aaron Porter has urged students to continue to campaign against a lifting of the cap on fees. Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8620815.stm Asian University Leaders, Meeting in Australia, Seek to Improve International Ties The Chronicle of Higher Education April 15 2010 At a conference here on Australia's east coast that drew hundreds of higher-education leaders from the Asia-Pacific region this week, educators called for equal partnerships with Western institutions and agreed that they needed to become more flexible to adapt to a rapidly changing economic environment. Full article: http://chronicle.com/article/Asian-University-Leaders/65098/ For-profit universities not welcome in India The Times of India April 15 2010 MUMBAI: India plans to shut its doors to the world’s public and private universities that operate for profit, thus blithely believing that the move would keep the education sector free of rampant commercialisation. So the University of Phoenix, of the US, or the aggressively expanding Monash University of Australia, or Britain’s first private company-university BPP College of Professional Studies, would not be permitted to set foot in the country. Full article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/For-profit-universities-not-welcome-inIndia/articleshow/5807435.cms Education agreement signed with India Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand April 12 2010 New Zealand and India have concluded a formal education agreement which ministers are describing as a significant achievement. It was signed today by Education Minister Anne Tolley and India's Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal. Full article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/3574138/Education-agreement-signed-with-India
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The Wall Street Journal Debuts India Real Time Blog MediaBistro.com April 14 2010 The Wall Street Journal launched a blog to provide readers with updates on business, finance, politics, culture, and sports in India, India Real Time. Full article: http://www.mediabistro.com/webnewser/newspapers/the_wall_street_journal_debuts_india_real_time _blog_158409.asp South Australia aiming to 'poach' British university students with promise of better quality of life The Daily Mail - United Kingdom April 13 2010 South Australia has launched an aggressive raid on British university students with the promise of a booming economy and better quality of life. The state is seeking to 'poach' British talent concerned at graduate job opportunities in the UK and the prospect of rising tuition fees. Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265732/South-Australia-aiming-poach-British-universitystudents-promise-better-quality-life.html Rights fear for 'outsiders' The Australian April 14 2010 THE world's three million overseas students are treated as outsiders and nowhere in English-speaking countries do they enjoy comprehensive human rights, according to a new Australian study. Overseas students were really "temporary migrants", and all nations could choose to treat them as quasi-residents, the University of Melbourne's Simon Marginson told a recent conference in London. Full article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/rights-fear-for-outsiders/story-e6frgcjx1225853368352 When Indian students suffer, Australia risks being scarred for life The Sydney Morning Herald April 13 2010 Australia's handling of the assaults on Indian students has been a debacle. And it's still a mess. The country has suffered real reputational damage, real economic cost, and real diplomatic disadvantage. Reputation is central to its ''soft power'', or its ability to influence others through attraction, in the language of modern power theorists. We know this episode has damaged ours because of the testimony of, for example, the no-nonsense John McCarthy, until recently Australia's high commissioner in India. Full article: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/when-indian-students-suffer-australia-risks-being-scarred-forlife-20100412-s3zh.htm
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Foreign investors homing in The Sydney Morning Herald April 12 2010 Rule changes mean foreign investors are now free to move away from the CBD and into suburban property. New rules making it easier for foreign residents to invest in local real estate, along with an influx of overseas students, are changing the property market. Full article: http://www.smh.com.au/business/foreign-investors-homing-in-20100411-s0uu.html Overseas enrolments continue to rise University World News April 11 2010 Despite the increasing value of the Australian dollar compared with other currencies, and widespread reporting across Asia of attacks on Indian students, the nation's universities continue to attract more foreign fee-paying students. Full article: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100409202502339 India Australia Education Council to Be Constituted Press Information Bureau - India April 09 2010 A landmark initiative to constitute the India-Australia Education Council has been agreed on by India and Australia A first of its kind, this Council will bring together government, academia, business and industry of both the countries to further bilateral collaboration in the education sector. Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Human Resource Development, and Ms. Julia Gillard, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australia decided upon this in a meeting held yesterday in Melbourne, Australia, in recognition of the fact that education is central to sustained, inclusive and equitable growth. Full article: http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=60209 Australia Consolidates Educational Links with India Media Release: The Hon Julia Gillard MP April 09 2010 Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and India’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, today signed a Joint Ministerial Statement to build on the cooperative ties between the two nations in the education sector. Full article: http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Releases/Pages/Article_100408_141605.aspx
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Australia, India sign education deal AAP via The Sydney Morning Herald April 08 2010 Three months after the stabbing death of Indian graduate Nitin Garg on his way to work in Melbourne, Australia and India have signed a major deal on education. An India-Australia Education Council - made up of experts from both sides - will be formed and a joint ministerial statement has been signed to expand the education exchange program. Full article: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/australia-india-sign-education-deal-20100408ru4p.html Foreign students targeted The Manawatu Standard April 08 2010 To help bankroll tertiary education, Steven Joyce plans to increase international student numbers and encourage commercial university research. The tertiary education minister, who visited Palmerston North yesterday, said making New Zealand a world leader in English language-based education will not be at the expense of local students. Full article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/3553161/Foreign-students-targeted Stretching our wings to China The Jakarta Post April 05 2010 There are just too many Indonesians studying business in Australia and the US, confesses 22-year-old Leonard Wilsen. Translation: Too many talented graduates to compete with if he returns to Indonesia to find a job. So, off he went, packing his suitcases for another country he believes to be the world's new phenomena: China. Full article: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/05/stretching-our-wings-china.html Showcasing life abroad The Star - Malaysia April 04 2010 A recent documentary that touches on issues faced by teens from China studying in Kiwi schools is gaining some attention. WHEN Chinese student Jane arrived in Wellington, New Zealand (NZ), she did not reset her watch to the local time. Full article: http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2010/4/4/education/5289820&sec=education
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Australasian Association of Campus Activities (AACA): 2010 national student competitions National Campus Band Competition launched: National Campus Film Festival launched : National Campus Art Prize launched : National Campus DJ Competition launched :
http://www.aaca.net.au/ncbc http://www.aaca.net.au/ncff http://www.aaca.net.au/ncap http://www.aaca.net.au/ncdjc
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