Today, Dr Monique Ryan will introduce a Private Member’s Bill into Parliament to change the date of HECS indexation, and make the student debt system fairer for millions of Australian students and graduates. Dr Ryan’s Bill has drawn widespread support from across the tertiary education sector, with leading officials from major universities and Australia’s peak…
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Dr Monique Ryan MP: Simple HECS fix would save students billions
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Today, students across Australia will see their HECS debts rise again, by a total of over $1 billion, in another clear sign that Australia’s student debt repayment system is fundamentally broken. Dr Monique Ryan MP, Independent Member for Kooyong, said the annual increase highlights the urgent need for structural reform. “Young Australians are already under…
Shaq-A-Claus Rides Again
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Shaq-A-Claus, presented by the Shaquille O’Neal Foundation, returns to make spirits bright for nearly 600 pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students at its annual holiday event, hosted this year at Fairview Elementary School on Tuesday, Dec. 16. For 24 years, Shaquille O’Neal – known to the kids as Shaq-A-Claus – has made the holidays merry for children…
Are International Students coming back to Australia?
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As borders closed in Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so did the usual flow of international students. International education contributes $40 billion to the wider economy – which was twice as much as in 2015. It also affected jobs in the sector with a loss of over 35,000 academic and professional staff. So, what…
Victorian Government Partners with the ABC
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Primary school students now have access to interactive learning resources to support their remote and flexible learning thanks to a partnership between the Victorian Government and the ABC. Minister for Education James Merlino announced this week that the first set of 15 learning activities connected to educational programs are screening on ABC ME (20-24 April)…
UC gathering school memories
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As a part of Canberra’s centenary Celebrations University of Canberra is calling for ACT teachers, parents and students to share their school memories as part of a research project to write the history of the last 100 years of learning in the nation’s capital. University education researcher Dr Phil Roberts, who explained that the website…