Transcript An increasing imperative: Meeting the `diversity challenge`

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
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Chart 1
Index of University Income Sourced from Commonwealth Government 1995 to 2005
(as a Share of GDP and Total Government Payments)
1995 = 100
100
95
Index 1995 = 100
90
Share of
Total Government Payments
85
80
75
70
Share of GDP
65
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
"USQ has been left with no choice but
to close its Dubai campus," Professor
Lovegrove said in a media release.
“I can guarantee we're not
going to have $100,000
university degree courses."
John Howard4
“…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
Canada
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. 2005. 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. 2002. p 135)
Concluding Remarks