3 events Coming up
13 Aug 2012
Graduate winners - public losers?
This year the government will spend $6 billion subsidising higher education teaching. But what does this spending achieve? A new Grattan report, Graduate Winners, due out early August, argues that the public benefits of higher education would be m...
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Seminar/Forum28 Nov 2012
Knowledge Precincts: Creating new places and partnerships for learning
This forum brings together three leading contributors to the City of Melbourne’s knowledge economy: Mr Geoff Lawler, Director City Planning and Infrastructure, City of Melbourne; Professor Margaret Sheil, Provost and Acting ViceChancellor, The Uni...
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Free Public Lecture06 Jun 2013
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education
The fouryear college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that education offers a ticket to a better life. But with studentloan debt surpassing the US$1 trillion mark and unemployment on the rise, people in the U.S. are beginni...