Higher education policy development should involve learning from the Abbott government’s mistakes and other counties where university reform has been successfully achieved.
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New Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the Turnbull government will abandon plans to deregulate university fees in time for 2016.
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Shadow Higher Education Minister Kim Carr talks to Michelle Grattan about Labor's new higher education policy.
The opposition’s statement today rules out a number of the current government’s policies. Deregulation, as they’ve said before, but also plans to expand the demand-driven system.
Currently universities collaborate with one another and with other sectors in myriad ways, greater competition through deregulation could discourage such collaborations.
What are some of the consequences for reduced and declining government funding for Australia’s university sector?
If a future government does decide to resurrect compact-like agreements, they should learn from the first two goes with them.
International students are more attracted to universities that charge more, so would price equal quality in the eyes of Aussie students if fees were uncapped?
ANU economists argue that Australian universities should have “skin in the game” on Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debts.
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.
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The Group of Eight have now withdrawn their support for fee deregulation, despite it already having caused fissures in the higher education system.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.
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 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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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne CSHE, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Chancellor, Victoria University
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Vice-Chancellor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Fellow, Higher Education Program, Grattan Institute
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director, LH Martin Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Vice-Chancellor, James Cook University