The 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 MoreNew analysis from the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) shows increasing financial and social impacts of the Job-Ready Graduates (JRG) policy, with rising costs for students and fewer students from low socioeconomic backgrounds enrolling in university, especially in the most expensive fields.
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.
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The 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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