The federal government has announced plans to change the way debts are indexed. But it may not help students over the long term.
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Taxpayers, including those paying tuition fees with FEE-HELP loans, can claim a deduction for self-education expenses that relate to the work they do. But graduates with a HECS-HELP debt can’t claim.
Though more moderate than the 2014 version, the new higher education reform package represents groundhog day for the major political parties.
We shouldn’t take the government’s own budgetary savings rationale at face value.
A heavy focus of Bill Shorten’s budget reply speech was preparing for the future with science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. While this focus is a step in the right direction, the policies probably aren’t the right way to go about it.
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Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Law Professor, University of New England
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
