While the government claims this is the “first stage of a multi-year reform agenda” based on the Accord, much more will need to be done to achieve the equity Chalmers promises in his speech. The proportion of low socio-economic students at university has dropped post-COVID. It remains to be see if this budget will reverse that trend.
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The Budget has unveiled new measures to regulate the growth of international student migration including awaited increases to student visa fees and financial capacity requirements as well as a new formula which will cap international student enrolment at each university.
Universities Australia (UA), the peak body representing Australia’s 39 universities – including the University of Sydney – released a response submission to the Federal government’s draft Action Plan addressing gender-based violence in higher education in late December last year.
According to the NTEU’s branch at RMIT Training, the offer provided to staff members promised “low wages and excessive workloads”.
“A terrible part of the Job Ready Graduates will be overturned, yet students have been completely ignored in other demands,” said SRC President Lia Perkins.
Despite ongoing calls to remove weapons manufacturing from universities, the Government has pledged funding for Commonwealth-supported places to support AUKUS.
Honi attended Budget lockup to assess what the Budget included for students.
“This vote is a call for university managements and our government to think seriously about our sector.”
The report was commissioned by former Liberal Education Minister Dan Tehan in 2019.
UniMelb, USyd, Monash, UNSW and the University of Queensland combined hold a whopping $37.3 billion in assets, making Australia’s universities the wealthiest since national records began.
