CAPA welcomes the new Minister for Education and Training

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) welcomes the appointment of Senator Simon Birmingham as the new Minister for Education and Training. In doing so CAPA calls on the Minister to address, as a priority, the financial uncertainty currently undermining Australia’s higher education sector by taking the Government’s higher education and research reforms off the table.

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Macquarie v MUPRA Case “a First” for Student Unionism in Australia

The legal team representing seven Macquarie University postgraduate students who will this week appear in the Supreme Court of NSW as defendants against their own University, has described the case as “a first” and “unique”, noting that an Australian Court has never before been asked to compulsorily wind up an unincorporated, solvent student organisation.

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Higher Education and Research Reforms will damage Australia’s research capacity

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) warns that the damaging $173.7M cut to Research Training Scheme (RTS) funding and the associated new fee on research degrees included in the Higher Education Research Reforms bill (HERR) have not been dropped, or even mentioned in the Minister for Education and Training’s last last minute attempts to ‘create a clear choice for [the] Senate’.

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2014 Federal Budget: Have your say and sign the petition today!

Higher Degree by Research students are being asked to foot the bill for their Masters and PhD qualifications as a result of the 2014-15 Federal Budget, with the Research Training Scheme to be slashed by $173.7 million and RTS places added to the HELP scheme from 1 January 2016.

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