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Australian University students get Better services

Students at Australia’s universities will have access to better quality services and amenities when they return to campus next year, following the passage of the Higher Education Support Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill.

Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans said the Bill signalled a long overdue boost for student services, and a big win for regional universities which have been among the strongest advocates for change.

“This legislation will assist universities in rebuilding vital student services and amenities to ensure that they can support their growing student populations,” Senator Evans said.

“From next year, countless campus services which were stripped of funding under the former Coalition Government will start to be rebuilt.

“Students will benefit from improved access to a range of campus services, including sporting and recreational activities, employment and career advice, child care, financial advice and food services.

“The Coalition’s neglect of student services hit regional campuses particularly hard, with many student facilities at regional campuses forced to close down.”

A key feature of the new arrangements is that students can benefit from better student services while they are at university but defer payment of the fee through the HECS system until they are earning a decent income.

“Students have a clear interest in how their fees are being spent. Universities will be required to consult with students on the specific uses of the proceeds from any services and amenities fees,” Senator Evans said.

Under the new legislation, higher education institutions can charge a fee of up to $263 per student in 2012. No student will be forced to join any student organisation and the Bill expressly prohibits fee revenue being used to support a political party.

The student services and amenities fee will provide universities with more than $250 million over four years for much needed student amenities and services.

University of Wales- cease to exist

UK's second-largest university with a 120-years of history in education has been abolished following visa scandal.

The University of Wales (UoW) will cease to exist after mounting pressure to draw a line under a series of damaging revelations. Its chairman Hugh Thomas resigned on Friday.

The university was a federation of institutions across the Principality, and its constituent parts will now go their separate ways.

Two - Newport and Glyndwr, in Wrexham - will become independent universities, while Swansea Metropolitan will merge with Trinity St David, based in Lampeter and Carmarthen.

The move follows allegations about a visa scam and failures to carry out proper checks on foreign colleges accredited by the university to award its degrees.

An investigation revealed last week that overseas students at Rayat London College, in Hounslow, were sold diploma exam answers in advance of taking the test.

The diplomas gave them entry on to UoW MBA degrees, which allowed them to apply for UK visas, and exempted them from most of the work.

The college, and nearby Lampton College where the exams were taken, have been suspended and are being investigated by the UK Border Agency.

The revelations followed a scandal last year when the university, whose chancellor is the Prince of Wales, was forced to cut all ties with a college in Malaysia which awarded UoW degrees when it was revealed that its director Fazley Yaakob, a Malaysian pop star, had bogus qualifications.

Another institution linked to UoW, the Accademia Italiana in Bangkok, was operating illegally, according to Thai authorities.

The findings regarding the overseas colleges led to a damning report from the Quality Assurance Agency which found serious shortcomings in the way the university worked with some of its 130 associated colleges around the world.

It said the university had failed to carry out thorough checks at several overseas institutions and it warned the UoW to review its practices abroad "as a matter of urgency".

Vice-chancellors of other Welsh universities had led calls for the scrapping of the UoW.

The new merged Swansea Met-Trinity university will now take the name "University of Wales: Trinity St David" and inherit what remains of the UoW's network of affiliated colleges.

It will operate under the royal charter of Trinity Saint David, which dates back nearly 190 years.

Over the decades, various colleges have come under the UoW banner, including Cardiff University, which now awards its own degrees.

Past students include the Prince of Wales, who spent a term at Aberystwyth in spring 1969, Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader, who met his wife Glenys at Cardiff, and Huw Edwards, the BBC presenter, who also studied at Cardiff.

Tale of University emperor

Long gone are the days when university presidents, the likes of Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard or Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, reigned supreme. Perhaps it is not as dire as you’d think listening to the current wags’ quip: “The president of the college is someone who lives in a big house and begs.” But college and university presidents are indeed running huge multi-million-dollar or multi-billion-dollar operations and are responsible to numerous constituencies, whose interests are often diametrically opposed to one another.

It is equally apparent that the current situation, with roughly 4,000 institutions of higher learning in the United States, is untenable. The apparent lure and efficacy of online education will inevitably lead to a thinning of the ranks. And this survival of the fittest will play out based in part on financial resources, e.g. Princeton is unlikely to go out of business, in part on distinctive programs (there may always be a place for quirky offerings, à la St. John's great books curriculum), and in part on outstanding athletic or artistic programs.

Having sketched a depressing picture, it offers a few positive suggestions.

Yes, university presidents who remain at the helm for several years, and who manage to build up a reservoir of good will, can make and consolidate sensible changes in curricula, pricing, scheduling and faculty recruitment. And universities that strive to align the interests of the various constituencies can forge ahead in a promising direction.  

But by far the most powerful ally for the thriving of the 21st-century university is the strategic partnership across campuses, particularly ones that are near to each other. Some partnerships have existed for decades, such as the Claremont Colleges in California and the five Colleges in Massachusetts. But what was once an option has now become a virtual necessity. Individual tertiary institutions cannot afford to be all things to all people.

The new collaboration among three Boston area schools: Babson, Olin and Wellesley Colleges. With their distinctive profiles—business, engineering and liberal arts, these institutions complement on one another and, through a program like their Sustainability Certificate, offer interested students the opportunity to get an education that no single one of these institutions could have provided on its own.

For such collaboration, skilled leadership at the presidential level is certainly necessary. But in the end, it is the individuals in the trenches (faculty, staff, liaisons) who will determine whether these collaborations are shallow or deep, and whether they produce in students a quantum leap in knowledge and skills.

So in less than a century we proceed from the university president as all powerful to the president as a cheerleader and catalyst for new forms of collaboration. Herein lies the best chance for the survival of higher education—one of the few American institutions that continue to command admiration around the globe.

                                UK Students facing Visa Extension Problems

All those who have come to UK on Student visa, due to changes in rules in the recent times with many colleges having their sponsorship licence (suspended or revoked). Also due to students failing English test are finding great difficulties. The rules are changing next year as only Highly Trusted Colleges can sponsor international students, this is bound to increase the trouble as visa extension can only be obtained through these colleges. Students facing this problems and need help, we can help!