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ISAA submission to Universities Accord Review, April and August 2023

September 8, 2023
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  The panel considering the proposed Universities Accord, in response to the submission received on the earlier Discussion Paper, released in August 2023 an Interim Report on the Universities Accord. Submissions received by the government on the Interim Report are available at https://www.education.gov.au/australian-universities-accord/consultations/consultation-interim-report ISAA’s submission on…

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RESPONSE FROM TONY BURKE MP TO ISAA'S SUBMISSION IN SUPPORT OF TROVE

April 8, 2023
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From: Arts – DLO Burke <dlo.burke@MO.arts.gov.au>  Sent: Monday, April 3, 2023 1:54 PM To: Burke, Tony <Tony.Burke@MO.arts.gov.au> Cc: Arts – DLO Burke <dlo.burke@MO.arts.gov.au> Subject: Trove Saved [SEC=OFFICIAL] OFFICIAL Good Afternoon, You recently wrote to me about funding for…

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ISAA LETTER TO ABC REGARDING REDUNDANCIES

September 13, 2022
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On 6 July 2022, Ian Keese, as Acting President of ISAA, wrote to Mr David Anderson, Managing Director, ABC about our concerns regarding staff reduncies and what that would mean for the future. The Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. (ISAA) was founded in 1995 as an Australian-wide association for the promotion…

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BUDGET CUTS TO COLLECTING AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

April 23, 2022
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The Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) is a network of scholars whose interests span the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. We affirm the importance of libraries, museums, galleries, and archives (GLAM) in supporting scholarship; these collecting institutions are fundamental to the advancement of knowledge. At a national level, they…

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Letter to The Hon Stuart Robert MP. Free TAFE courses for Australia

March 6, 2022
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The Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. (ISAA) was founded in 1995 as an Australian-wide association for the promotion of education. The association has a diverse membership and broad purpose that give ISAA knowledge and capacity for informed judgement in vocational education and training matters. TAFE should be a valued…

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Response from The Hon Stuart Robert MP to letter about Free TAFE courses for Australia

March 6, 2022
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Letter to Stuart Robert MP: ARC Research Grants

February 17, 2022
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ISAA expresses its concern at the action of the government in December 2021, in rejecting six ARC research grants although the grants had already been approved by the Australian Research Council. ISAA notes that the rejected grants were all in the humanities.  There has been no proper explanation of…

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Letter to Michaelia Cash, Attorney General. Funding Increase for the National Archives of Australia

June 29, 2021
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ISAA was founded in 1995 as an Australian-wide association for the promotion of scholarship. Our members include academics and scholars from engineering, medicine, sciences, arts, administration, law, economics and diplomacy.  The recent publicity surrounding the funding difficulties being suffered by a statutory institution alarms us greatly. The comments of Assistant…

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Letter to Sue Ellery MLC, Minister for Education and Training. Government Support for Changes in TAFE

June 9, 2021
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The Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. (ISAA) has a diverse membership and wide purpose that give ISAA a knowledge and capacity for informed judgment in vocational education and training matters. TAFE should be a valued and essential part of Australia’s post-COVID economic recovery. The flow of economic benefits created…

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Position Paper 2: Impact of COVID-19 on Women Students in the University Sector

June 8, 2021
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While governments across the globe develop strategies in response to the health and economic crises caused by COVID-19, it is clear that the gendered impact will extend well beyond the present emergency. On 10 April 2020 António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, directed attention to this, calling for…

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