An increasing imperative: Meeting the ‘diversity challenge’ in the context of globalised higher education. Ann Stewart Director, The Equity Office The University of Queensland Australia

Former Victorian premier John Cain, a vocal critic of Melbourne University Private, said the venture had been a fiasco, with culpability lying with the university council. Closing time for USQ Dubai Merger spells end of Melbourne Uni Private "USQ has been left with no choice but to close its Dubai campus," Professor Lovegrove said in a media release.

“…$5 billion Higher Education Endowment Fund to finance capital investment. The Government is also stepping up its intervention in the states' educational sphere.” 1 “…the Commonwealth contribution to Universities went from 60 per cent to 40 per cent over its period in office. Vice Chancellors have become more dependent upon HECS fees and charges and full fees from overseas and domestic students.” 2 “private sector, governments, international organisations…unprecendented …Partnership for Education 3 “I can guarantee we're not going to have $100,000 university degree courses." John Howard 4

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The quality and performance of New Zealand universities was identified as being at risk, with strong international competition for academic staff being a factor. (Profile & Trends: New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Sector p 204. Ministry of Education Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga)

“[The] linkage between diversity and democratic society challenges higher education to think more deeply about what individuals learn from their experience of campus ethos – and how that learning in turn constrains or enriches the quality and vitality of …communities.” (Schneider and Humphreys quoted in Chang p 135)

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