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A dodgy chart does not a good case make
The Report of the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee into the Government’s higher education package sheds little new light but it does include a notably dodgy chart that undermines, not supports, the Minister’s rhetoric about higher education funding growing…
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Universities are not rolling in gold: Average funding per student and other funding facts
IRU members oppose the Government’s Higher Education package. It does not address the key issue of ensuring needed level of resources for universities while effectively balancing Government investment with student contributions. Students need better resourced universities, not to pay more…
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Research infrastructure and industry driven research: whither now?
The 2017 Budget provided no answer to two crucial decisions the Government must make: • how to fund national research infrastructure for the coming decade; and • how to ensure the Research and Development Tax Incentive encourages business to use…
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Why universities need annual surpluses
Does Australia want its universities to be well run efficient organisations? The Deloitte report Cost of delivery of higher education is a useful analysis of the information from the participating universities within the constraints set by the Government directions to…
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Will Australia have the universities we need for the future?
The IRU has long argued the need to improve investment in Australia’s universities to ensure they provide the education and research needed to underpin future prosperity. We have set out the challenge Australia faces to find the resourcing universities require…
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Impact of More Students at University – Part 2
The decision to open university undergraduate education to all interested and capable students is intended to ensure that all Australian have the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills in the fields that drive them, as the basis for productive…
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Impact of More Students at University – Part 1
As we mark the fifth anniversary of the demand driven system, the data continues to show the positive benefits of a model steered by student agency and university commitment to access. The IRU regularly monitors data on the discipline choice…
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Paying extra to not pay now: the issues with a loan fee for the Higher Education Loans Program
Andrew Norton and Ittima Cherastidtham of the Grattan Institute have released Shared interest: a universal loan fee for HELP. It proposes that the Government introduce a common 15% loan fee for each element of the Higher Education Loans Program (HELP).…
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Successful HEPP faces death by a thousand cuts
This article by IRU Executive Director, Conor King was published in The Australian newspaper 11 May 2016 The federal government’s flagship equity program has never been allowed to become what it was meant to be. When the latest round of…
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Three problems with the Supplementary Report on HELP from the Parliamentary Budget Office
On 6 April 2016, The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released Report no. 02/2016 Higher Education Loan Programme: Impact on the Budget offering models and costings for the HECS/HELP program into the future, taking into consideration Labor’s demand driven policy and…
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Four questions for the Parliamentary Budget Office on the true cost of HECS-HELP
I do not fully understand the Parliamentary Budget Office report: HELP, impact on the budget. The headline figure in is that in 2025-26 the annual cost of HELP on an underlying cash balance basis will be $11.1 billion. How does…
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Who funds the researcher?
The Grattan Institute report The cash nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities has opened up the debate about how universities’ responsibility to lead research and higher education delivery in Australia is achieved within each institution. The issue is…
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