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Students rated their financial literacy quite low, which means many students who have managed to secure a place at university don’t believe they understand about debt.
The Conversation’s experts respond to the ALP national conference on matters of asylum seekers, health, education, party reform and more.
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is important, but universities, as public institutions, have a responsibility to fulfil their public role too.
A government office to support teaching has been put out to tender, but will the university that wins the contract be fair in doling out funds and projects?
You could be forgiven for thinking that education was left largely untouched in Tuesday’s federal budget. But the tinkerings to last year’s education budget still mean a “fail” for education funding.
Today’s budget fails to provide any new incentives to a Senate that is going to need a strong reason to give the deregulation bill a third run.
The Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann promised on budget eve that the government remains committed to the package of changes to higher education reforms announced by Education Minister Christopher Pyne…
Currently law students pay about 80% of their degree cost, and nursing students only about 30%. Is it fairer if everyone pays the same?
The Group of Eight have now withdrawn their support for fee deregulation, despite it already having caused fissures in the higher education system. But what are they worried about? And what sort of conversation do they want to have now?
Education Minister Christopher Pyne claimed his plan to deregulate university fees was essential to boosting Australia’s place in the rankings. But no student fee rise will give us close to the level of funds of the top ranked unis.
The higher education sector needs more competition to ensure prices stay low. One way to encourage new entrants into the market is to separate funding for teaching and research.
Before the government tries a third time to secure support for university fee deregulation, it needs to learn from past mistakes in the tertiary education sector and come up with a plan.
The voting down of the higher education bill stems from the government’s failure to sell the reforms. Here is a six step guide to successfully making big changes to higher education.
In recent years higher education enrolments have surged. This is triggering many policy issues including ballooning student debt.
While the attempted higher education reforms have been a fiasco, the public has become alerted to the importance of universities and fair access to higher education.
The Senate has defeated the government’s plan to deregulate university fees 34 votes to 30, with Labor, the Greens and five of the other eight crossbenchers combining against it.
The defeat of the Abbott government’s higher education reform package in the Senate adds another line to its long list of policy failures.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne has backed down on his threat to defund NCRIS if the Senate failed to pass the government’s university deregulation bill.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne has announced a last-ditch effort to try to save the government’s plan to deregulate university fees, which faces defeat in the Senate.
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