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KEY TO FREEDOM [VIDEORECORDING] : WOMEN AND LITERACY.
Recorded from ABC television program broadcast 8.1.92.
Originally produced by the United Nations Dept. of Public Information and the UN
Development Fund for Women, c1990.
Producer, Richard Sydenbam.
Germaine Greer.
A documentary which looks at programs conducted by the United Nations
Development Fund for Women.
ERC VID.
376 KEY : VHS.
THE DEGREE FACTORIES [VIDEORECORDING] / PRODUCER, SARAH CURNOW.
Off-air recording of the ABC programme broadcast 27/06/05. Copied under Part 5A
of the Copyright Act 1968.
Colour recording system: PAL ; Region all.
Copyright notice: Commonwealth of Australia. Copyright Regulations. 1969.
Warning.
Editor, Jessica Miller ; researcher, Jo Puccini ; executive producer, Bruce
Belsham.
Reporter, Ticky Fullerton.
Report on the plight of the Australian higher education system, the result of
the decline in overall government support. This, Dr. B. Nelson, repeatedly
denies, quoting figures which contradict directly with his department's of
actual government funding drop of 22% between 1996 and 2000. Fending off
questions about the issue, he claims that he is unaware of what is going on. He
has come up with rhetoric, promises of more reforms. Meanwhile, universities,
forced to fend for themselves, have turned students into clients, and degrees
into commodities. Almost all Australian universities, now highly dependent on
full-fee paying international students, undertake risks to lure them,
sacrificing quality and rigorous academic scrutiny. No one is speaking out about
the problems under the present climate. There are allegations of degree
factories; scandals of plagarism; soft marking; and even degrees awarded
undeserved. Ten of the 38 universities are making losses in 2003; while the
elite Group of 8, including Melbourne and Sydney, will do well in the business
world. Just ANU and the University of Melbourne, are ranked as the world's top
100 universities.
Academics view that under-resourced institutions are not giving students a good
education. Messages about cut-backs and the struggle for higher education in
Australia have hit the national news headlines in Singapore and Hong Kong. Many
here believe that Australia can no longer aspire to be a clever country. Its
traditional, cultural standing of quality and equal opportunity are being
destroyed by the rush to sell the clever country. Its reputation for world-class
teaching is at stake. Universities with better infrastructure and clearer
visions will surplant Australian universities; and that eventuality will be
catastrophic. Many Asian governments are catching up with the infrastructure.
Universities in China and Japan are busy positioning and re-defining themselves.
Within fifteen years, they will be ready to compete.
Includes interviews with the federal education minister, vice-chancellors,
academics and international students of the universities featured, to present
concerns and comments on the higher education issue. Includes also selected
footage of nation-wide protests against the recent government legislation to tie
-in higher education funding with contract employment conditions.
First released: [Sydney] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, c2005. Original
released in series: Four corners.
DVD.
Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
ERC DVD.
378.94 DEGR.
STRIKING FOR STATE AID [VIDEORECORDING] / PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY GRAHAM