Speakers include:

	Dr Glenn Withers AO Chief Executive Universities Australia					Mrs Sujatha Singh Indian High Commissioner to Australia		Maurene Horder Chief Executive Migration Institute of Australia
	Ed Byrne Vice Chancellor Monash University					Vicki Thomson Executive Director ATN		Pam Christie Institute Director TAFE NSW – Sydney Institute
	Anthony Pollock Chief Executive and Managing Director IDP Education Pty Ltd					Terry Kearney Executive General Manager Education & Health Springfield Land Corporation		Professor Shelda Debowski President International Consortium for Educational Development
	Rod Jones Chief Executive Navitas					Professor Gavin Brown Director Royal Institution of Australia		Steven Schwartz Vice Chancellor Macquarie University
	Professor Ian Young Vice Chancellor Swinburne University of Technology
Plus: • Dr Kerry Ferguson, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Equity and Student Services), La Trobe University (VIC) • Lenore Cooper, Director, IRU

About the conference:

The Government is committed to making Australia one of the most educated and highly skilled workforces in the world in order to secure national long term economic prosperity.

In March 2008, the Government initiated a Review of Higher Education to examine the future direction of the higher education sector, its fitness for purpose in meeting the needs of the Australian community and economy, and the options for ongoing reform. The Review was conducted by an independent expert panel, led by Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC

As part of the 2009 Budget, on 12 May the Government announced it would provide an additional $5.4 billion to support higher education and research over the next 4 years in a comprehensive response to the Bradley Review, Transforming Australia’s Higher Education System. The quantum leap in resourcing is designed to support high quality teaching and learning, improve access and outcomes for students from low socio economic backgrounds, build new links between universities and disadvantaged schools, reward institutions for meeting agreed quality and equity outcomes, improve resourcing for research and invest in world class tertiary education infrastructure.

Major themes include:

• Challenges of applying the Bradley Review recommendations
• Revising academic standards in line with the new funding (“compacts”)
• How research intensive universities should be organized in 21st Century
• Defusing the Indian student’s fear on security
• Recruiting overseas students from China & India vs USA
• Regulating off-short educational agents
• Effect of proposed Government funding on TAFE institutes

Who will be attending:

• Federal Government
• State Government
• Universities
• Higher Education Institutions
• Finance Companies
• Education Companies
• Education Suppliers
• Banking Institutions
• Management Schools
• IT Companies
• Business Schools
• Trainers
• Corporate Business Schools