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Asialink Centre  
URL:http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/
Category:Regional and National Studies  Political Science & Policy  International Collaboration  University Collaboration  Society and Culture  International associations and organisations 

The Centre is a partnership between the Myer Foundation and The University of Melbourne, promoting public understanding of the countries of Asia and creating links with Asian counterparts. The site features extensive information about the three major programs of the Centre: Corporate and Public Programs, Asia Education Foundation, and Arts.

Australian Education International (AEI)  
URL:http://www.aei.gov.au/Aei/Default.aspx
Category:Key Organisations  International Collaboration  Key Government Priorities and Activities  Key Education and Training Links 

AEI - The Australian Government International Education Network, is part of the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). AEI integrates the development of international government relations with support for the commercial activities of Australia's education community. To do this, AEI liaises with all sectors of the education and training industry and all levels of government. This site includes information about government activities, market information, events, offshore support, publications and research and qualifications recognition.

Banff Principles on Graduate Education  
URL:http://www.cgsnet.org/portals/0/pdf/mtg_BanffPrinciples.pdf
Category:International Collaboration 

The principles were developed at a meeting in August 2007 in Banff, Alberta - involving educators from the United States, Canada, Europe, China and Australia. Graduate education, involving both masters and doctoral programs, is the key to creating a knowledge-based economy. While graduate education is in transition globally, the Banff Summit is an important step towards establishing inclusive, international collaborative action to support and strengthen graduate education through the sharing of best practices.

EduRoam Australia: Network Roaming for Higher Education  
URL:http://www.aarnet.edu.au/Content.aspx?p=129
Category:Access management standards  International Collaboration  University Collaboration 

EduRoam is an international, location independent wireless network, allowing mobility between participants wireless infrastructure with seamless user authentication and enforcement of local security policy. Through EduRoam Australia staff and students from participating Australian members of AARNet and GrangeNet can gain network access at both their home institution or another participating institution in Australia or Europe without any administrative burden or added complexities. Other participating countries include: the Netherlands, UK, Greece, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Poland, Latvia, Finland and Norway.

e-Framework Briefing Paper  
URL:http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_eframeworkbp
Category:International Collaboration  Higher Education Headlines 

The e-Framework is an initiative by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), the initial e-Framework Partners. It has major implications for educational institutions as they seek to harness the potential of ICT to realise their strategic goals. This guide explains the background, aims and benefits of the e-Framework and will be of interest to institutional decision makers. JISC, 5 September 2006

Engaging Universities and Regions - Knowledge Contribution to Regional Economic Development in Australia  
URL:http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/eippubs/eip00_15/00_15.pdf
Category:International Collaboration 

This study, published by the Higher Education Division of the Department of Education, Science and Training, is a follow up to the report 'Creative Associations in Special Places': Enhancing the Partnership Role of Universities in Building Competitive Regional Economies. The extensive data includes regional profile analysis, student flow data collection, case study information and campus operational data.

HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory)  
URL:http://www.hastac.org/
Category:International Collaboration 

HASTAC ('Haystack') is a virtual network, a network of networks. The primary members are universities, supercomputing centers, grid and teragrid associations, humanities institutes, museums, libraries, and other civic institutions. The site offers information about resources, projects, events and participation.

Higher Education Relevance in the 21st Century  
URL:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187511&siteName=WDS&entityID=000094946_9912220532351
Category:International Collaboration 

Paper prepared by Michael Gibbons, World Bank Education for the 1998 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education. This paper presents a view of the relevance of the higher education in the 21st century that begins from the changes that are taking place in the production of knowledge. The major change is the emergence of a distributed knowledge production system.

Impact of the GATS on Transnational Tertiary Education: Comparing Experiences of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia  
URL:http://www.aare.edu.au/aer/online/30030f.pdf
Category:Publications and Funding  International Collaboration 

This paper examines the impact of the World Trade Organization?s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on transnational higher education in four countries: New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. The GATS is a multilateral agreement through which WTO members commit to voluntary liberalisation of trade in services, including education. Transnational (or offshore) education refers to education that is delivered by an institution based in one country to students located in a different country. Two of the countries considered, New Zealand and Australia, have made commitments under GATS to allow relatively unrestricted cross-border provision of education in their countries, while the other two countries, Singapore and Malaysia, have made no such commitment. There is currently considerable activity in renegotiating countries? commitments to GATS as part of the Doha round of WTO negotiations, and simultaneously bilateral free trade agreements are being proposed between countries in the region. In this context, this paper examines the practical impact that GATS has had on these two countries that have made commitments regarding education, and the likely impact that similar commitments by Malaysia and Singapore would have on the tertiary education systems in those major importing countries.

International Alliance of Research Universities  
URL:http://info.anu.edu.au/ovc/Executive/020PP_Strategies,_Initiatives_and_Alliances/IARU
Category:International Agreements  International Collaboration  International Higher Education initiatives  University Collaboration 

The International Alliance of Research Universities is a strategic drawing together of a selected group of research-intensive universities that share similar values, a similar vision and a commitment to educating future world leaders. The alliance is comprised of ten universities, including Australian National University and: ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich; National University of Singapore; Peking University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Cambridge; University of Copenhagen; University of Oxford; University of Tokyo; and Yale University. The long-term aim is to seek corporate/foundation/government support for research projects; possibly convene a forum to share knowledge about the commercialisation of research and the legal and academic framework in each country; work jointly on benchmarking; and develop shared positions on key public policy issues.