The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced funding of $111.5 million to encourage greater specialisation among higher education providers and promote diversity across the sector.
More than 30 universities will receive funding for 49 projects through the latest round of the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund.
Successful projects will help the higher education sector better respond to student and employer demand and assist universities in developing their distinctive missions.
Projects will promote innovative arrangements with partners in higher education and in vocational education and training, to create new pathways for students across the tertiary sector.
Many of the projects will also promote access to universities for students from low socio-economic status backgrounds, regional and remote Australia and Indigenous students.
As part of the Education Revolution the Rudd Government has already increased investment in universities and taken action to ensure Australians are able to access a world-class tertiary education.
In the first twelve months, the Rudd Government has:
• Invested $500 million through the Better Universities Renewal Fund to help Australian universities rebuild their campus infrastructure.
• Provided new funding for capital expenditure, and renewal and refurbishment to Australia’s higher education and vocational education and training institutions through the Education Investment Fund.
• Phased out domestic full fee undergraduate degrees at public universities, ensuring Australian students gain entry to university on merit, not ability to pay.
• Injected $238 million to increase the number of higher education graduates in areas of skills shortage. This will double the number of students receiving Commonwealth Scholarships to 88,000 by 2012.
• Announced a range of measures to rebuild student services and amenities, new representation and advocacy protocols, enabling providers to charge a services and amenities fee and a HECs style loan for the payment of the fee.
• Provided funding of $779.2 million over four years to help new students studying the critical disciplines of maths and science as well as the priority areas of early childhood education and nursing.
• Commissioned a major review of the higher education sector that will help shape the higher education policy agenda for the decade ahead. The expert panel leading the review will deliver its final report to Government this month.
A full list of successful projects is below and further information on the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund is available at www.deewr.gov.au/dsa.
2008 Competitive Round of the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund Successful Projects
|
Lead Organisation |
Project Title |
Project Total $ |
University Total $ |
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Australian National University |
The Engineering 'Hubs And Spokes' Project |
3,800,000 |
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The Health ‘Hubs And Spokes’ Project |
3,200,000 |
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7,000,000 |
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Central Queensland University |
Place-Based Education Pathways - Gladstone |
991,000 |
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Place-Based Education Pathways - Mackay |
991,000 |
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1,982,000 |
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Charles Darwin University |
Achieving Best Practice Flexible Provision At CDU |
2,867,000 |
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2,867,000 |
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Charles Sturt University |
Building Capacity For Early Childhood Education |
2,108,000 |
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2,108,000 |
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Curtin University of Technology |
Building Cultural Safety For Health Services |
1,200,000 |
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|
|
1,200,000 |
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Deakin University |
Deakin At Your Doorstep |
8,213,000 |
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8,213,000 |
|
Edith Cowan University |
Strategic Initiatives To Address Teacher Shortages |
930,000 |
|
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|
930,000 |
|
Flinders University of South Australia |
Enhancing Engineering Choices For S.A. Students |
340,000 |
|
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Southern Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Program. |
3,254,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
3,594,000 |
|
James Cook University |
Australia's University For The Tropics |
2,800,000 |
|
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The Cairns Institute: Establishment Phase |
5,184,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
7,984,000 |
|
La Trobe University |
Integrated Rural Health Workforce Development-Vic |
3,162,000 |
|
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|
|
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3,162,000 |
|
Macquarie University |
Curriculum Based Participation & Engagement Model |
2,250,000 |
|
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|
|
2,250,000 |
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Monash University |
Increasing Regional Student Participation |
1,701,000 |
|
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|
1,701,000 |
|
Murdoch University |
Addressing Labour Market And Regional Needs |
240,000 |
|
|
|
Development Studies Professional Practicum |
390,000 |
|
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|
|
|
630,000 |
|
Queensland University of Technology |
Caboolture Region Healthcare Simulation Centre |
230,000 |
|
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Social Inclusion (low-SES)-aspiration/philanthropy |
1,154,000 |
|
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Teacher Education Done Differently |
1,450,000 |
|
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|
|
|
2,834,000 |
|
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
Global Green Car Learning Clusters |
441,000 |
|
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|
441,000 |
|
Swinburne University of Technology |
Associate Degree In Engineering |
802,000 |
|
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|
802,000 |
|
University of Adelaide |
Underpinning The Precision Greentech Revolution |
580,000 |
|
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|
580,000 |
|
University of Canberra |
Entry Pathways To Enhance Regional Participation |
800,000 |
|
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Work Integrated Learning: A Collaborative Model |
830,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,630,000 |
|
University of Melbourne |
A New Generation: The Clinical Teaching Model |
7,960,000 |
|
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The Community Clinical School Model |
6,566,000 |
|
|
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|
|
14,526,000 |
|
University of New England |
Dehub: Innovation In Distance Learning |
3,544,000 |
|
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|
|
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3,544,000 |
|
University of New South Wales |
ASPIRE |
339,000 |
|
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|
339,000 |
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University of Newcastle |
Agreement For Reciprocal Credit (ARC) |
210,000 |
|
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|
210,000 |
|
University of Queensland |
Providing Languages Other Than English In Brisbane |
2,271,000 |
|
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|
2,271,000 |
|
University of South Australia |
Closing The Gap: Developing An Inclusion Framework |
3,969,000 |
|
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Student Employability Skills & Community Service |
1,922,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
5,891,000 |
|
University of Southern Queensland |
Integrated Articulation And Credit Transfer |
1,594,000 |
|
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|
|
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1,594,000 |
|
University of Sydney |
Graduate School of the Brain & Mind Sciences |
2,365,000 |
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Increasing Student Diversity In Higher Education |
3,549,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
5,914,000 |
|
University of Tasmania |
Australian National Network In Marine Science |
3,430,000 |
|
|
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Integrated Tasmanian Creative Arts Education |
2,520,000 |
|
|
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Primary Industry Centre For Science Education |
3,601,000 |
|
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Unlocking Talent: The New Regional Campus |
2,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
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11,551,000 |
|
University of Technology, Sydney |
National Support For Laboratory Resource Sharing |
2,120,000 |
|
|
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Power Engineering Centres Of Excellence (Final) |
325,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
2,445,000 |
|
University of Western Australia |
Aspire UWA |
2,456,000 |
|
|
|
|
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2,456,000 |
|
University of Western Sydney |
Embedding An Indigenous Graduate Attribute |
900,000 |
|
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Parramatta Community Justice Centre |
448,000 |
|
|
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UWS Nirimba - Creating A New Student Experience |
5,700,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
7,048,000 |
|
University of Wollongong |
Networked Solution To Educational Workforce Needs |
3,347,000 |
|
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3,347,000 |
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Victoria University |
National Work Integrated Learning Portal |
402,000 |
|
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402,000 |