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Higher Education Working Party

Higher Education Working Party. Aimee Riley. Why care about higher education?. Higher Education policy has a huge impact on all law students Consider the following: HECS Accreditation Honours Requirements The Juris Doctor Youth Allowance

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Higher Education Working Party

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  1. Higher Education Working Party Aimee Riley

  2. Why care about higher education? • Higher Education policy has a huge impact on all law students • Consider the following: • HECS • Accreditation • Honours Requirements • The Juris Doctor • Youth Allowance • Saturation of the market for law graduates • These all fall under HIGHER EDUCATION ISSUES

  3. Purpose of Higher Ed WP • Campaigns • Policy development • Lobbying • Communication with other bodies

  4. Policy • Develop policy • Meetings will focus on recent developments & media releases • Topics likely to SHIFT – keep on top of our emails • By the end of our term, a comprehensive policy database will be established detailing ALSA positions on a host of Higher Education issues. • This will complete the 2011 Ed Team’s work on Higher Ed Policy

  5. Issues for Policy Development • Honours– one semester/one year? • Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) & Law • Deregulation: how to cope with more law students, and more law schools • The Juris Doctor Program • Student Income Support & Youth Allowance • Tertiary Education Infrastructure Funding

  6. Lobbying • Policy developed through the working party will be used to lobby government for change within the Higher Education sector. • The working party will give ALSA reps direction as to what to pursue – you will be guiding us on what you think is important • Working Party members will also get the opportunity to represent ALSA in a lobbying capacity!

  7. Communication with other bodies • AMSA • The National Union of Students • National Tertiary Education Union United we conquer, divided we beg

  8. First Meeting: AQF & Honours • AQF indicates that Bachelors (Hons) degrees (Lvl 8 AQF) ought to involve an additional yearlong program within or following a Bachelors degree (Lvl 7 AQF). • Why shouldn’t we make honours one year long? • LLB is already a four year degree • Unlike arts & other degrees we have a very specific set of knowledge dictated by accreditation and professional standards concerns • Would encourage a large split between students studying to become academics (& therefore spending more time at uni and doing honours), and those wishing to practice – should be about excellence, no matter your future field

  9. Why get involved? • This has a really tangible effect on all of us – slight changes in Base Funding result in thousands of dollars more or less on our HECS • Employment: a low-quality, saturated market will not help us get jobs nationally or internationally • Get younger committee members and students from your law school involved and learning about ALSA & higher ed • Got a splinter group? Get them to join and express their views! • Great training if you want to be President of your University

  10. Get involved! • Sign up to the working party and dial in to the teleconferences (dates on next slide) • Join the facebook group • Email educationofficer@alsa.asn.au and join Higher Education Working Party (HEWP) mailing list • Send out recommendations to members

  11. Meetings October 2011-April 2012 • Working Party meetings will be held at the following times: • AQF & HonoursXX/XX/XX at XX am/pm • Base Funding (HECS) XX/XX/XX at XX am/pm • The JD XX/XX/XX at XX am/pm • Deregulation XX/XX/XX at XX am/pm

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