Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee
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The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee is an organisation founded in Sydney in May 1920, which attempts to advance higher education through voluntary, cooperative and coordinated action. After being based for a time in both Sydney and Melbourne, its offices relocated to Canberra in 1966.
The Committee is non-partisan and exists exclusively for educational purposes. Its continuing aim is to serve the best interests of the universities, and through them, the nation. According to its website,[link] its aims are to
- Support Vice-Chancellors in the performance of their roles;
- Promote the needs, interests and purposes of Australian universities and their communities to government, industry and other groups;
- Develop policy positions and guidelines on higher education matters through discussing higher education issues, including teaching, research and research training;
- Advance internationalisation of Australian universities;
- Provide information for and about Australian universities; and
- Provide services and programs to universities including the negotiation of common purchasing arrangements.
The AVCC represents (and is funded by contributions from) 38 Australian universities.
Member universities
- University of Adelaide
- Australian Catholic University
- Australian National University
- University of Ballarat
- Bond University
- University of Canberra
- Central Queensland University
- Charles Darwin University
- Charles Sturt University
- Curtin University of Technology
- Deakin University
- Edith Cowan University
- Flinders University
- Griffith University
- James Cook University
- La Trobe University
- Macquarie University
- University of Melbourne
- Monash University
- Murdoch University
- The University of New England
- University of New South Wales
- University of Newcastle
- University of Queensland
- Queensland University of Technology
- RMIT University
- Southern Cross University
- University of South Australia
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Swinburne University of Technology
- University of Sydney
- University of Tasmania
- University of Technology Sydney
- Victoria University
- University of Western Australia
- University of Western Sydney
- University of Wollongong
External links
- [Official Site]
- [List of Presidents & Vice Presidents of the AVCC] (since 1920)
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