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Consultative meetings will be held with invited individuals and
organisations over the coming months. A final Consultative Forum will be
held towards the end of the year. Following the Forum I intend to take
forward a set of policy proposals for Government consideration and
decision.
This Overview paper focuses on several key policy issues for higher
education. It covers matters that have been raised in the public domain in
recent years and is informed by earlier reports, including: the Review of
Higher Education Financing and Policy, chaired by Roderick West, that
produced Learning for Life in April 1998; the Green and White papers
leading to Knowledge and Innovation in December 1999; the National
Innovation Summit and associated consultations which resulted in the
report Innovation: Unlocking the Future of August 2000 and the Government’s
response, Backing Australia’s Ability of January 2001; the University
Group of Eight paper Imperatives and Principles for Policy Reform in
Australian Higher Education of August 2000; the AVCC discussion paper Our
Universities: Our Future of December 2000; and Universities in Crisis, the
Report on Higher Education of the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations,
Small Business and Education References Committee of September 2001.
A set of references that provide detailed treatment of relevant issues
is provided at the end of this paper.
