The Group of Eight (Go8) is a lobby group for eight Australian tertiary institutions which are the leading universities in Australia. It was established informally as a network of vice-chancellors in 1994 and was formally incorporated in 1999. Some assert that it is an Australian analogue of the American Ivy League, though others dispute the validity of this claim.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Students attend a lecture at a tertiary institution. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... For other uses, see Ivy League (disambiguation). ...

All members of the group except ANU, UNSW and Monash are known as "sandstone universities", and all of their primary campuses are based within an Australian capital city. The Australian National University, or ANU, is a public university located in Canberra, Australia. ... Uniwalk is the main walkway stretching through the whole Kensingtion campus The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW or colloquially as New South, is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Robert Menzies Building at the Clayton Campus Monash University is a public university, with campuses located in Victoria, Malaysia and South Africa. ... In Australia, the term sandstone university is used to refer to any of the countrys oldest tertiary institutions. ...

The group, in arguing for prioritisation of research funding and in lobbying for increased funding for the largest and most popular campuses, sometimes finds itself at odds with smaller, regional and rural universities.

Members

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See also

• Ivy League (alliance of prestigious U.S. universities)
• Russell Group (network of leading U.K. universities)
• University of Wales (the founding member of the federation are leading Research Universities in Wales as well as the United Kingdom}
• 1994 Group (smaller research-led British universities, including York, Durham, and St Andrews)
• Coimbra Group (network of leading European universities)
• Group of Thirteen (G13) (network of leading Canadian universities)
• Universitas 21 (international network of universities)
• Intramuros Consortium (network of geographically linked major Philippine universities in Intramuros, Manila)
• Universities in Australia
• Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee
• Australian Technology Network
• Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRU Australia)

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External link

• Group of Eight Official Website