[LINK] Agenda for Australian higher education 2013-2016

[Liddy Nevile]

I hope there's something in there about making universities more  
suitable for the many bright people with disabilities who would like  
to join the rest of the world with their contributions to our future?

Liddy
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On 27/02/2013, at 5:30 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:

> Universities Australia have released "A Smarter Australia: An agenda  
> for
> Australian higher education 2013-2016". This 80 page document details
> reforms proposed for Australia's universities:
> http://universitiesaustralia.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Universities-Australia-A-Smarter-Australia.pdf
>
> Four trends are suggested as driving change in higher education:
>
> 1. The digital economy and technology
> 2. global higher education market
> 3. Asian century
> 4. many countries develop and expand their own world-class capacity
>
> Four themes are proposed
>
> 1. Increase Australians’ university participation
> 2. Develop Australia’s globally engaged university sector
> 3. A powerful research and innovation system that drives economic and
> social progress
> 4. Efficiency, investment and regulation
>
> Curiously, the Internet gets only one mention by name in the document,
> where an expansion to open access to research is proposed. There is  
> one
> mention of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), alongside other
> "flexible offerings".
>
> I have extracted the executive summary, mention of Internet and MOOCs
> at:
> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/02/a-smarter-australia-agenda-for.html#summary
>
>
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