Breakfast of champions? 17/05/2017 2:01 pm http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/breakfast-of-champions/news-story/be8c7dc924fc02f992ab485cbcab6e2e Page 1 of 3 THE AUSTRALIAN Breakfast of champions? In today’s High Wired, UTS is finally rid of its comma and lick the smashed avocado and marmalade off our fingers. Welcome to the club The transcript of Karen Andrews’ introduction of the higher education legislation in the lower house last Thursday popped up yesterday. In it Andrews sought to explain the measures when she said: “Frankly we are all in this together”. (HW suspects that is not actually the case.) By and large it doesn’t read too much differently from Simon Birmingham’s speech to VCs two weeks ago, just longer. However it does reveal that UTS has formally had the comma removed from its name and Melbourne College of Divinity is off its five year probation as a university college and is now formally deemed a university — the University of Divinity. HW is trying to find out whether UA has, or will have, a new member soon. Fight back Newcastle University released its new branding campaign The World Needs New and New Needs You yesterday. “The new brand reflects on these achievements, builds ownership and pride for our communities, and of course, plays on the word “new” alongside our name, the University of Newcastle,” said VC Caroline McMillen in a statement. Maybe the staff and student unions haven’t been listening. The NTEU reckoned the rebranding was a distraction from the real story of up to 170 job cuts and “seeming disarray in senior management” while students ignored it completely and went for broke on the budget measures: “The budget is a clear attack on students. It is designed to lock out low-SES students from tertiary education”. Which, of course, it isn’t. New needs New all right. A way with words Protesting the higher education changes in Sydney yesterday, Socialist Alliance member Hersha, had this to say: “It’s disgusting that we have to stand out here when they have bloody avocados, their delicious marmalade, they’re smirking over their breakfast, while students have to time and time again be forced into poverty.” Evocative. It’s an honour Both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott will be handed honorary doctorates in Israel this week, making a chance meeting in the corridors of Ben Gurion Airport quite real. While this will be Gillard’s fourth hon doc, it’s Abbott’s first. Make of that what you will. Abbott humbly told 2GB radio: “The Israelis in their wisdom are giving me an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University.” Conferences The first ever conference targeting mental health in higher education will be held at James Cook University on June 30-July 1. Ben Venness, a Churchill fellow, who travelled to the US and UK to report on initiatives there. Certainly concern over the mental health of students is increasing following a survey by Headspace and the NUS that found a staggering one in three students consider self-harm or suicide. A white paper from Orygen, the Melbourne-based National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health released in early May called for universities to embrace mental health as “core business” by boosting funding for campus health services and working with external health organisations. Acquiring a karmic decline Acquire Learning, one of a handful of training companies that exploited the appalling VET FEE-HELP scheme to the hilt, has gone into voluntary administration. The administrator, and indeed the CEO, blame a change in the regulatory environment. As The Scan reports: “Acquire’s business model was to buy the names of jobseekers from job search websites, particularly then News Corp owned CareerOne, in which Acquire took a controlling interest in 2015 and full control in 2016. Acquire would then coldcall the jobseeker and use alleged high-pressure tactics to sell them expensive courses, of up to $52,000 funded via VET FEEHELP, with the lure of a job at the end.” According to The Scan: “The administrator of the business said while the exact causes of Acquire’s problems are yet to be identified, it appeared that regulatory changes had a significant impact.” Or maybe it was just karma. Apologies Apologies for no HW yesterday. Fog, flat tyres and lack of parking space at Canberra Airport at to blame. THE AUSTRALIAN 7:42AM May 16, 2017 Breakfast of champions? 17/05/2017 2:01 pm http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/breakfast-of-champions/news-story/be8c7dc924fc02f992ab485cbcab6e2e Page 2 of 3 A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. 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