An arts degree under the Job-ready Graduates scheme will now cost more than $54,000.
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Job-ready Graduates created cheaper postgraduate education – especially for nursing students – but this may not last.
College tuition has not significantly risen since 1990, at least compared to tuition changes over the previous decades.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.
Only the federal government can fix the problems created by the Job-ready Graduates scheme. Ahead of the budget on May 12, it shows no interest in doing that.
The debt changes will deliver major benefits to recent graduates, but much less to current students and nothing to future students.
Students from poorer backgrounds already struggle with access to tertiary education. Moving the fees-free incentive from the first to last year of study may make it even harder.
How does coming of age in Australia look now compared to in the year 2000? Evidence shows young people now have it much worse.
Higher education services – like healthcare, food and roads – do not magically drop out of the sky. It costs money to run university campuses, infrastructure and pay for teaching and research.
Education Minister Jason Clare has released more details on how the federal government wants to make changes to university funding and student places.
The Universities Accord final report makes recommendations that could significantly change what many Australian students pay for their higher education.
Australian university applicants are sticking to their preferred fields of study, despite dramatic changes to student fees in 2021.
A new study tracks the number of history academics and history students in Australia. The results are alarming.
The Victorian government has announced a $230 million package to encourage an extra 8,000 ‘future teachers’ into the profession.
Foundation year students are more likely to be from an underrepresented background.
On Wednesday, Education Minister Jason Clare released a much-anticipated report on universities.
Making study materials free could potentially allow students to take multiple units from different universities. It would also make higher education much more accessible.
A new student contribution system is likely to be part of Labor’s promised Universities Accord.
At the last election, Labor and the Coalition offered very different policies on university funding. Not so this time round, but the current flawed funding system could be improved further.
If one in five international students don’t re-enrol, the loss of revenue would plunge half of all Australian universities into budget deficit or financial turmoil.
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher, Social Sciences, University of Fort Hare
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Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation and Associate Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Researcher in Labour Studies and Education, University of Johannesburg
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Research Associate in Higher Education Policy and Planning, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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PhD Scholar, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher at the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Education, Postgraduate School, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Sol Plaatje University
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Teaching & Learning Specialist, Office of DVC Academic, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand