A new professional development program to help research students get their work out of the lab and into the business community has been launched by the Australian Technology Network of Universities.
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Australia’s biggest state has lodged a formal proposal to bring international students back into the country from “mid-year”, raising pressure on other states to follow suit – and on Canberra to approve the deal.
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ATN Executive Director, Luke Sheehy joins ausbiz to discuss Budget 2021-2022, Labor's 'Startup Year', how our universities have been impacted over the past year and why universities are the hub of entrepreneurs and start-ups.
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Australia’s opposition leader has flagged a new scheme to boost the commercialisation of university research, stealing a march on government reform plans in this area.
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Universities have welcomed a Labor plan to boost innovation with start up loans for entrepreneurs and a program for them to access university expertise.
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Australian National University vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt has called on the federal and state governments to bring a “can-do, problem-solving attitude” to Australia’s international border closure and allow low-risk foreign students back into the country.
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Many in the Australian higher education sector feel left behind in the 2021-22 Budget after a difficult financial year with reduced international student revenue.
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Deakin University has expressed its disappointment that the federal budget has not built on previous government investment for some university-delivered short courses.
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Universities are disappointed in the lack of support for higher education in the federal budget, which deals them a further setback by positing no full return of international students until at least 2023.
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