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What's New
- Season's Greetings from Go8
- New Go8 leadership team for 2012-13
- Go8 Policy Note 1 - Guiding policy principles for higher education
- Go8 Policy Note 2 - Enrolments, funding and student staff ratios
- Go8 welcomes integrated portfolio
- Go8 thanks Senator Carr for his outstanding contribution to university research
- Go8 Backgrounder 25: Academic staffing trends in Australian universities
- Go8 Newsletter Update
Welcome to the Group of Eight
The Group of Eight (Go8) is a coalition of leading Australian universities, intensive in research and comprehensive in general and professional education. The Go8 exists to:
- enhance the contribution of its member universities to the nation’s social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being and prosperity;
- extend the contribution of its member universities to the generation and preservation of the world’s stock of knowledge;
- strengthen Australia’s capacity to engage in and benefit from global developments, respond to global and local challenges;
- expand opportunities for Australian students, regardless of background, to participate in higher education of world class.


