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IRU Contribution to Higher Education and Research in Regional Australia
The IRU’s regional presence is strong within the health sciences, teaching 26% of the nation’s health students who are taught from regional based campuses. We teach roughly similar proportions of the nation’s health students in regional based campuses at the doctoral-level (26%), postgraduate coursework (31%) and bachelor-level (25%).
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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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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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