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In the May Budget, the government may look for ways to shift the costs of higher education from the taxpayer to the student.
A new report has called on the government to lower the threshold at which university graduates repay their debt from $54,126 to $42,000. But is this fair on students?
There are some factors which make students more likely to drop out of university than others. Here are four ways universities can help boost retention.
Kenya’s authorities are trying to deal with declining standards at the country’s public and private universities. This will require a strengthened regulatory framework and hard work from institutions.
There was nothing in President Zuma’s speech to suggest that he’d really listened to people’s concerns about higher education - nor to suggest that any solutions will be forthcoming.
Research suggests that universities in South Africa haven’t paid much attention to the potential harm that social media could cause - and the benefits it could create.
2013 was the year of Gonski; 2014 the year of higher education reform; 2015 has been the year of … hmmm … wait, what actually happened this year? Just a lot of chat really, with much debate, but little…
A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
Higher education policy development should involve learning from the Abbott government’s mistakes and other counties where university reform has been successfully achieved.
Many point out that in 2011 Australia’s public funding of universities ranked thirty-third out of the thirty-four OECD member countries. However the story is not so simple.
New Education Minister Simon Birmingham says the Turnbull government will abandon plans to deregulate university fees in time for 2016.
Labor has released a higher education policy intended to restart a discussion stalled by the failure of the Coalition’s deregulation package to pass the Senate. What is the point of the promised funding guarantee?
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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.
Targeting an increase in male student enrolments could lead to increased enrolments from high socioeconomic status students.
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?
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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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Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto
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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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Associate Professor & Academic Director, Widening Participation, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Associate Professor in History, University of New England
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Executive Director, IRU, La Trobe University
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Fellow, Higher Education Program, Grattan Institute
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Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University
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Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Chancellor, Victoria University