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Business View Oceania - October/November 2017
We’ve heard too many stories about
students who have changed courses,
dropped out because they made the
wrong choices about what to study, stu-
dents who didn’t realise there were other
entry pathways or who started a course
with next to no idea of what they were
signing themselves up for. With around
one in three students not completing
their studies within six years, we’ve tak-
en action to ensure they are empowered
to make choices about their courses that
best suit them with an additional $8.1
million investment in the popular Quali-
ty Indicators for Learning and Teaching
website and we’re working with the high-
er education sector to bring more trans-
parency to the admissions processes so
students know exactly what they’re sign-
ing up for.
There are also a number of other spe-
cific initiatives we’ve been implementing
to connect students with job opportuni-
ties, such as $28.2 million for a nation-
al PhD internship program so higher de-
gree graduates get the right skills and
qualifications for the jobs of the future.
There will be 1400 internships over the
next four years with a focus on greater
engagement of women in STEM.
Through the National Innovation and
Science Agenda we’ve also increased
incentives for universities to collabo-
rate with businesses to tackle real-world
problems and deliver solutions that help
Australian industries and families. For ex-
ample, our changes to the Linkage Pro-
ject scheme means when researchers
and businesses come to the Government