Page 1336 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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As a number of the recommendations of the select committee will take some time to achieve and some will be the responsibility of institutions themselves to take forward, the Government, for its part, will do all that it can to facilitate the general process of discussion and the resolution of issues envisaged by the conclusions and recommendations of the report.
The establishment of a Canberra university will be a most important step in this process, and the Government will do all that it can to achieve this objective. The Canberra CAE has, since its inception, served well the community and has been responsive to the needs of the community for higher education courses with an applied and vocational orientation. Colleges of advanced education, however, have now become an anachronism under the new unified national system arrangements. It is essential that the college should achieve university status at once if it is not to be disadvantaged, and this objective has the strong support of the ACT Government.
The committee's conclusion that sponsorship by an existing university would give an appropriate process for achieving university status has the support of the Government. I am delighted that progress has been made in negotiating such a sponsorship arrangement with Monash University and I have no doubt the two institutions will gain from the proposed links.
In conclusion, I would like to thank the members of the select committee for their important contribution to the question of determining the best future arrangements for ACT higher education. The Government is committed to the objective of strengthening higher education in the Territory and of developing close relationships between higher education and ACT social, economic and cultural development. The select committee report offers an appropriate framework for addressing a number of the key issues, and the Government will give careful consideration to the conclusions and recommendations of the report in developing its higher education policies.
Sitting suspended from 12.24 to 2.30 pm
MR SPEAKER: It being 2.30 pm, pursuant to temporary order 74, the debate on the question that the recommendations of the Select Committee on the Amalgamation of Tertiary Institutions be agreed to is interrupted and the resumption of the debate is made an order of the day for a later hour.
RULES FOR QUESTIONS
MR SPEAKER: At the end of question time yesterday the Leader of the Opposition raised a point of order about a question which had been directed by Mr Wood to the Chief Minister. The Leader of the Opposition asked whether the
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