Month: April 2013

Proposed Changes to Student Start-up Scholarship

Student Services
Published Authord.harris
Higher Education Savings Announcement: Subject to the passage of legislation, from 1 January 2014, new higher education students in receipt of Youth Allowance, Austudy or ABSTUDY will be ineligible for the Student Start-up Scholarship (SSS). Instead, these students will be eligible for equivalent Income Contingent Loans, totalling up to $2,050 per year, to help them […]

Proposed Changes to HECS-HELP Upfront Discount and Voluntary Payment Bonus

Student Services
Published Authord.harris
Higher Education Savings Announcement: Subject to the passage of legislation, the Government will remove the upfront discount of 10% for students enrolled in Commonwealth supported places that pay their student contributions upfront and the voluntary HELP repayment bonus of 5%. These changes are subject amendments being made to the Higher Education Support Act 2003 and […]

2018 Games must focus on original values

Head and shoulders image of Bruce Kidd.
Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management
Published AuthorStephen O'Grady
Medal counts and win-at-all-cost attitudes have increasingly overshadowed the original focus of the Commonwealth Games. The Gold Coast, however, is in a strong position to restore the spirit of diversity and development on which the Games were fostered. This will be the argument put forward by Professor Bruce Kidd, an expert on the political economy […]

Our students among Brisbane ambassadors

A group of six students pictured with Mayor Graham Quirk (centre).
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Published AuthorStephen O'Grady
Four students from Griffith University have been named by Lord Mayor Graham Quirk as 2013 Brisbane International Student Ambassadors. “Brisbane has 33 passionate new advocates from 29 countries. They will share what it’s like to study and live in our city,” Cr Quirk said at the City Hall ceremony. “The Griffith University ambassadors include the […]

Iconic work to commemorate Anzac Day

Greg Massingham
Queensland Conservatorium
Published AuthorNicole Butler
Queensland Conservatorium will commemorate this coming Anzac Day with a work of epic proportions: Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Hailed as a masterpiece when it first premiered in 1962, this event will see more than 200 performers take to the stage in South Bank to bring to life the ambitious work composed for two choirs, two […]