EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT Professor David Copolov, Pro Vice Chancellor, Office of the V

1. ACADEMIC HEADS CONFERENCE EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT Professor David Copolov, Pro Vice Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor 30th November, 2009

2. HOW MUCH OF AN ASSET OR IMPEDIMENT IS SIZE?A TALE OF TWO SHOE MAKERS Fritz Schumacher subtitle – a study of economics as if people mattered Adam Shoemaker

3. ELEMENTS OF THE FRAMEWORK

4. RESEARCH-ORIENTED MEASURES • Increased support for the indirect costs of research (20 cents/dollar to 30 cents/$ 2011, eventually to 50 cents/$). • Sustainable Research Excellence in Universities program ($13m over 5 years) to augment RIBG • Joint Research Engagement Scheme to replace IGS with greater focus on collaboration. • Education Investment Fund for research infrastructure ($934m Round 2 and $500m Round 3) • Excellence in Research for Australia – replacing the RQF ($36m over 4 years) • Super Science Initiative ($1.1b) including Fellowships • Postgraduate stipend increase by 11% and indexed at CPI

5. TRANSFORMING AUSTRALIA’S HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM • Students enter demand driven funding system with no quotas on total or discipline places from 2012 • 40% participation of 25 to 34 year olds by 2025. • 20% participation of low SES students by 2020 plus higher participation and completion rates for by other disadvantaged students. • Negotiated compacts between Government and universities. May 2009

6. TARGETS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION Bradley Review, 2008

7. Some elements of the Monash Futures Agenda • Engage in Academic Strengthening at all campuses; • Support curriculum review, reform and renewal such that education strengths are identified; • Grow our domestic student body judiciously in line with the federal government’s 20/40 agenda, as and where capacity permits; • Retain all Victorian Campuses under the Monash umbrella, emphasising excellence and accessibility; • Cluster and describe campuses as ‘Central’ and ‘President-led’’

8. Participation in University Education has far outstripped population growth – a global perspective Between 1900 and 2000 the world’s population increased from 1.6 to 6 billion – a 3.7 fold increase. During the same period the number of university students increased from 500,000 to 100 million – a 200 fold increase.

10. Enrolments in Australian Universities 1906-1972 At the time of the first national Census (1911) 2,465 Australians were studying at university – 0.06% of the total population 4.5 m.

11. INCREASES IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT POPULATION IN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES Dobson et al, 2001 plus ABS and DEEWR data 2008

12. Gender inequalities in Australian Higher Education Booth and Kee, 2009

13. THE ADVANTAGES OF WIDENING PARTICIPATION • We must ensure that Australian fortunes aren’t yoked to the vicissitudes of natural resources markets and at the mercy of low wage competitor countries by developing an increasingly well educated, skilled and capable workforce (economic/utilitarian) • People of ability should be able to access opportunity regardless of circumstance (social rights) • Potential should be optimised across the broad base of the population (distributive fairness)

14. “We are challenging thesoft bigotry oflow expectations”George W Bush, 2004

15. ADVANTAGES ACCRUING FROM A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION • Improvement in social mobility • Enhancement of employment opportunities • Improvement in income • Graduates tend to live longer, to be more engaged in politics and in their local communities and be less racist and sexist Brennan and Naidoo, 2007

16. 1 in 20: the ratio of Monash Caulfieldto Monash Clayton … and the ratio of Monash to the entire Australian University sector

17. Projected growth in the Australian Higher Education Sector

18. SOME LARGER UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITY LOCATION ENROLMENT There are 48 universities at least twice as large as Monash.

19. 36th President of the United States 1963-1969 38th President of the United States 1974- 1977

20. OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO MONASH UNIVERSITY • Group of Eight university research orientation combined with the capacity to pursue ambitious participation rate targets • Multiple campuses allow for substantial differentiation in mission and recruitment practices • Track record of successfully managing growth • Increasing demand (12% increase in VTAC first preferences this year, 33% increase over past four years). Currently one in four Victorian students put Monash first.

21. DEMOGRAPHIC OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO MONASH UNIVERSITY • There will be significant projected population growth in Monash’s catchment areas • Assuming a 35% increase of participation in low participation areas (vs 10% increase elsewhere), by 2027 the total increase in undergraduate students in Monash suburban and outer suburban catchment areas is projected to be 13,548 • Assuming 30% of all undergraduates in Monash’s catchment area are enrolled at Monash, the increase in Monash students from the catchment area-related changes will be 4,064. • 60% of this increase will come from the South Eastern Outer Melbourne (which includes Berwick, Pakenham and Cranbourne) Birrell, Lancaster and Healy, Nov 2009

22. CHALLENGES FACED BY MONASH Low participation rates in South Eastern Outer Regions, for example Pakenham 16%, Berwick 22%, Cranbourne 16% versus Camberwell 60%, Kew 55%, Box Hill 36%

23. CHALLENGES FACED BY MONASH Relatively low percentages of all university students in regions adjacent to our Peninsula and Berwick campuses attend Monash University. Berwick 37% Pakenham 35% Cranbourne 37% Frankston 42%

24. BRADLEY PROPOSALS AND GOVERNMENT FUNDING BETWEEN 2009 AND 2013

25. PREREQUISITES FOR MONASHREALISING THE MONASH FUTURES AGENDA Maintenance or enhancement of • Exit standards • Quality of teaching, the student experience and research Must be able to be afforded

26. The Views of a University Of Melbourne Higher Education Expert on the Monash Futures Agenda • This plan continues the tradition of bold visioning that has marked Monash throughout its history. • Monash is being a good citizen in the current policy environment and is the first cab off the rank in doing so. • Monash must pay attention to its core dilemma of size and spread versus concentrated basic research mission and impact. • Monash has become a more than a university, it is a system and is unique in Australia in that respect. Professor Simon Marginson, 2009

27. MONASH FUTURES COMMITTEE ACADEMIC STRENGTHENING GRAND CHALLENGES CAMPUS ENHANCEMENT PASSPORT MARK II IMPROVED SERVICES Including T1-T4 Cluster • Including • Sustainability, • Health and Wellbeing, • Productivity • Social Inclusion • Including • Governance • 20/40 • Curriculum design • Communications • Financial modelling • Including • Student experience • School and community engagements