Higher Education in the Media

By Paul Kniest. A bad hair news day for Dr Emerson
May Day 2013 was not a good day for the Gillard Government when it comes media coverage of higher education policy. On the same day that the NTEU published an open letter to the Prime Minister signed by almost 1,000 members of Australian universities professoriate expressing their feeling of anger and betrayal at the April 13 $2.3billion cuts to higher education, The Australian published several other stories highly critical of the government’s handling of particular tertiary education polices.
In a story entitled “Tertiary fund out of control”John Ross reports Mr Phillip Clarke, Chair of the Education Investment Fund (EIF) advisory board as saying government inertia and media-driven policy had derailed the Education Investment Fund. Read more...