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Articles on demand driven funding
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Around 7.5% of university government funding will be tied to performance measures, including graduate outcomes and participation rates of disadvantaged students.
A recent Productivity Commission report showed the demand driven system of university funding didn’t increase participation rates for Indigenous students. But our analysis actually shows the opposite.
University enrolments surged from 2012-2017 due to demand-driven funding. But they were would have risen anyway, perhaps just not as quickly.
Many universities were built in the 1960s and 1970s and the government isn’t providing funds to maintain them.
Top contributors
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor & Academic Director, Widening Participation, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Officer, Centre for Higher Education Equity & Diversity Research, La Trobe University
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Executive Director, Student Equity; and Director, Centre for Higher Education Equity and Diversity Research, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
