Equity

This report outlines the key issues and priorities for Australia’s 280,000+ postgraduate students in the lead up to the 2010 Federal Election. The report is informed by the efforts of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) to support improvements and reforms for postgraduates for over 30 years, as well as ongoing engagement and consultation on the interests and needs of this important group.

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) has welcomed the release of the Consultation Paper for informing the development of the Federal Government’s Research Workforce Strategy. The Consultation Paper follows directly from Building Australia's Research Capacity, the Final report from the 2008 House of Reps Inquiry into Research Training and Research Workforce Issues.

Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission is conducting a survey on Victorians' experiences of harassment, vilification and crime motivated by hatred and prejudice to help us develop our submission to the State Government hate crime review - see information below.

Established in 1978, the Western Suburbs Legal Service Inc is an independent, not for profit community organisation. WSLS is committed to providing free legal services to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our local community. We put a particular emphasis on working with people who experience continuing problems with the justice system for reasons including age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status or political beliefs. We challenge unjust and inequitable legal structures and processes and campaign for progressive law reform.

This is a useful and topical article with regard to education, opportunity and affordability/widening participation issues.

THE truth”, says Oscar Wilde, “is rarely pure, and never simple”. This is especially true in the case of the recent spate of attacks on Indian students that are being attributed to a mix of racism and opportunism in Australia.

Most incidents of “curry bashing” (South Asians are called “curries” in Australia) are occurring in Melbourne, a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis that is home to some 140 nationalities from the world over who speak in over 120 different languages.

Foreign students: Cite Universitaire a cote de la Yarra?

Michael R. James writes:

[From the DEEWR website]

The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) in consultation with the Indicator Development Group of higher education experts has developed a discussion paper on the framework of indicators that could be used to negotiate targets with universities for the purposes of performance funding for teaching and learning.