Push to lure university students to Canberra

By Noel Towell. The ACT government says Canberra's universities will benefit from a new program to promote the city's tertiary sector. The territory budget next month will contain spending of $2 million over four years to establish "StudyCanberra", aimed at making the capital a "city of first choice" for interstate and international students. The news will be welcomed by the city's two universities, reeling from federal government funding cuts, with the University of Canberra set to lose $8.3 million in the next three years and the ANU looking at $51 million in cuts in two years. Read more...