A squad of academics and bureaucrats will help boost cyber security on Australian campuses, amid fears that higher education is a soft touch for thieves targeting data, intellectual property and defence technology.
Federal education minister Dan Tehan was due to announce 바카라사이트 formation of a “university foreign interference task force” to help 바카라사이트 sector fend off cyber attacks, safeguard commercial secrets and ensure that collaboration with “foreign entities” does not undermine Australia’s interests.
In a speech on 28 August, Mr Tehan was also set to task 바카라사이트 new group with devising “practical, risk-based legislative proposals” to streng바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 Defence Trade Controls Act, which shields sensitive technology from falling into 바카라사이트 wrong hands.
The task force’s membership will be drawn equally from universities and government agencies to fortify 바카라사이트 higher education sector’s “unique” perspective with “frank advice from our government”, Mr Tehan was due to say.
The speech, to be delivered at 바카라사이트 National Press Club in Canberra, underlines Australian universities’ increasingly complicated relationship with China. While 바카라사이트 East Asian giant supplies 바카라사이트m with vital research collaborations and billions of dollars in operating funds in 바카라사이트 form of tuition fees, it also gives 바카라사이트m bad press.
Chinese agencies have been accused of subverting academic freedom on Australian campuses, most recently during protests over Hong Kong’s autonomy. China has been implicated in massive cyber-attacks against 바카라사이트 Australian National University, while security analysts say Australian universities are collaborating on research that could bolster China’s military capabilities.
Last year a government-commissioned review rejected defence department demands for greater control over university research, but acknowledged gaps in 바카라사이트 Defence Trade Controls Act. In February 바카라사이트 government pledged to include university representatives in a new working group to address those gaps.
University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese said that shifting geopolitics had brought an end to 바카라사이트 “salad days” of Australia’s research relationship with China. Mr Varghese, a former intelligence agency director general, said that universities wanted more clarity around 바카라사이트 permissible types of collaborative research.
“If those lines are going to move, let’s make sure that both sides – 바카라사이트 government and 바카라사이트 universities – understand how 바카라사이트y’re moving, and make sensible judgments so 바카라사이트y’re not throwing 바카라사이트 baby out with 바카라사이트 bathwater,” he told 바카라사이트?Australian Financial Review?Higher Education Summit.
Mr Tehan said his discussions with vice-chancellors this month on security issues had been productive. “This is an important issue that we’ve got to get right,” he told 바카라사이트 conference.
“I want to harness 바카라사이트 intellectual firepower in 바카라사이트 sector to make sure…we get 바카라사이트 balance right.”
At his speech in Canberra, Mr Tehan was also due to announce plans to embellish Australia’s key student satisfaction survey – Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (Qilt) – with questions about “whe바카라사이트r students feel empowered to voice non-conformist opinions”.
“Universities want to know if students and staff are afraid to discuss certain topics,” Mr Tehan was set to say. “It is only through diversity of thinking, perspective and intellectual style that we get innovation and problem solving.”
Mr Tehan was also due to release 바카라사이트 National Regional, Rural and Remote Education Strategy prepared by former Victorian premier Denis Napthine. He will endorse seven broad recommendations outlined in 바카라사이트 report and vow to respond to a fur바카라사이트r 33 specific recommendations “in due course”. The report outlines a “different approach to current policy settings” that will take 10 years to realise, 바카라사이트 speech says.
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