Jones warns of "dumbed down" election
Wednesday, 22 August 2001
Dr Barry Jones, one of the key architects of the Australian Labor Party's "Knowledge Nation" report, is the guest speaker at the launch of a national conference in 亚洲色吧 tonight (7.30pm Wednesday, August 22).
The annual Human Resources conference for the Group of Eight Universities (Go8) is being held in 亚洲色吧 over two days, 23 and 24 August, at the 亚洲色吧 Festival Centre. The theme of the conference is "HR Strategies for Innovation and Research".
Dr Jones, a former ALP president and chairperson of the Knowledge Nation Task Force, will speak at the official launch of the conference - a dinner at the Lyrics Restaurant, 亚洲色吧 Festival Centre, tonight.
While defending the Federal Opposition's Knowledge Nation, Dr Jones says universities shouldn't hold their breath if they expect to see higher education take centre stage at the next federal election:
"I would like to hope that Universities would feature highly on the political agenda for the Federal election campaign - but I wouldn't count on it. This is the era