Position Paper 1: The Valuing of University Education

 

The Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. (ISAA) has as one of its key aims the promotion of scholarship. As a national network of scholars pursuing interests in the sciences, business, law, humanities, social sciences and the arts, ISAA recognises the importance of university education in all fields, because without people gaining a foundation in the range of fields of study, scholarship in the future will be weakened. Scholars are...

Letter to Dan Tehan MP. Support for Universities

Government Support for Universities

The sudden loss of much international student revenue due to Covid-19 has been a disaster for the university sector, and has already led to thousands of academic staff cuts and will continue to lead to much changed teaching, research and study conditions in universities. Also, the Job-ready Graduates legislation, passed by Parliament in October, raises many problems and issues concerning the future of higher education in Australia,...

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The Value of Formal Education in The Humanities

The National Council of ISAA resolved to write to the Federal Minister for Education, Dan Tehen, expressing its concern at the rise in fees for humanities courses, which will more than double and put them alongside law and commerce in the highest price band of $14,500 a year, as a result of the Government’s ‘carrot-and-stick approach to funnel students into the industries it believes will drive job growth’. ISAA is particularly concerned at...

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NCIS, UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2020

Our ever-growing membership now includes scholars in 25 countries across 5 continents. We are increasing our Grants program (www.ncis.org/grants); our open access peer-reviewed journal The Independent Scholar is in its sixth year, with Volume 7 now in preparation; and we have recently set up new Partner Groups in the UK and in France. Following the success of our recent conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in June 2019,...

VISIONS OF SYDNEY UPDATE!!

Independent Scholars Association of Australia - NSW Chapter

Annual Seminar, in conjunction with

State Library of NSW

The 1788 arrival of Governor Phillip at Farm Cove with the 11 ships of the First Fleet saw the displacement of the peoples of the Eora Nation and the establishment of the British penal colony that would become Sydney Town and, eventually, the city of Sydney. From a Georgian town to a global city, what...

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NSW-ISAA CHAPTER: EVENING CONVERSATION

Topic: 'Australia: Nation or Commodity'

Date: 20 September 2016, 5.30 to 7.00 pm

Venue: Dixson Room, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW

Speaker will be Professor Gary Sturgess followed by a Q&A session.

Gary Sturgess holds the NSW Premier’s Chair in Public Service Delivery at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, and is Professor of Public Service Innovation at Griffith University. He is the former Director-General of the NSW Cabinet Office and...